How did the team do on any given night? Look no further. The Post Game reports are dedicated to breaking down each hockey game with news, notes, boxscores, and analysis. If the Oilers win, we’ll celebrate like champions. If they lose, we’ll all complain about what went wrong together.
Canada’s quest for gold got off to a perfect start in Red Deer, beating Switzerland 14-0, not a typo, in their first game of the Hlinka Gretzky Cup. More than half of Canada’s goals came in the opening period, with Colby Barlow getting the first on a shorthanded breakaway. Barlow scored a second in the…
Not the result we wanted but that was a hell of a season. Final Score: 6-5 Avalanche in OT
We know the challenge, we know the history, and we know how few teams have done it before, but that doesn’t mean the Oilers should fold their hand and give up. Can it be done? Dare to dream. Look, there’s no sugarcoating the position the Oilers are in right now — it’s not good. Being…
It’s officially do-or-die for the Edmonton Oilers.
Through the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Oilers had played poorly in Game 1 and then came out and won Game 2 with a significantly better effort. The pattern didn’t continue.
They needed a freebie to get this done, bring on Game 2. Final Score: 8-6 Avalanche Coming into this series against the Colorado Avalanche, we all knew how good the opponent was going to be but that our boys are also playing some pretty damned good hockey right now. Even though basically every pundit or…
Eight wins down, eight more to go. Final Score: 5-4 Oilers in OT Can I be honest for a minute? Today was the most stressed out I’ve been about a playoff game so far, and it’s a weird thing to admit considering the Oilers came into this thing ahead 3-1 in the series. Seeing as…
Through three games, the Oilers’ series with the Flames had been much like their first-round series with the Kings.
Well, that was far from how they drew it up.
Do you like apples? Final Score: 4-1 Oilers How can you not love a Battle of Alberta that starts at 6 o’clock on the Sunday of a long weekend? Everything about the setup for this game was fantastic, and I spent my day basically pacing around the house in eager anticipation for puck drop. I…
Splitting the games in Calgary is huge. Final Score: 5-3 Oilers
I know it’s been over 30 years since the last playoff BOA but I didn’t expect them to throw it back like this. Final Score: 9-6 Flames.
