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The Nation Roundup

Aug 2, 2019, 07:00 EDTUpdated: Aug 2, 2019, 00:06 EDT
10 early predictions for Oilers; Treliving still has heavy lifting to do in Calgary; Canucks navigating the salary cap; Leafs odds to improve; the state of the Jets defence; Brock Boeser’s contract, changing the NHL and more in this week’s Nation Roundup brought to you by Sumo Jerky.
In the Roundup, we go around the Nation Network and give you some of the best articles of the last couple weeks. Every once in a while it’s good to know what other teams are doing, or maybe you find an interesting article you wouldn’t have found otherwise.
LEAFS
The Leafs have their team, now they have to perform (Thomas Williams)
The Leafs are going to miss Ron Hainsey (Thomas Williams)
CANUCKS
Canucks navigating the salary cap Part 1 (Adrian Pooley)
Jim Benning 5 year rewind part 2 (Stephan Roget)
Brock Boeser’s next contract (Thomas Williams)
JETS
The state of the Jets defensive core (Josh Tessler)
Odds: Jets over/under for the 19-20 season (Nation HQ)
RED WINGS
A complete look at the Wings roster based on WAR (Tony Ferrari)
What can be expected from Patrik Nemeth? (Tom Mitsos)
FLAMES
What everyone gets from the potential arena deal (Ryan Pike)
Why it’s good the Flames are having a quiet offseason (Konstantin Kharitonov)
OILERS
What can we take from Holland’s first month as GM (Christian Pagnani)
3 ways I would change the NHL (Tyler Yaremchuk)
10 way too early predictions (Dustin Nielson)
Hockeyfights.com – Scrap of the week
More from around the Network:
The NHL should change the draft age (Jason Gregor)
Buyouts and and surprise firing (Tyler Yaremchuk)
Summer Salary Cap and Free Agency
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Breaking News
- Top 100 Oilers: No. 43 — Kelly Buchberger
- The Day After 67.0: Strong effort wasted as Oilers hope lost point doesn’t ‘come and haunt us later’
- Four positives from Oilers’ four-game road trip: Frederic is finding a new gear, the Nurse-Murphy pairing has potential, and more
- Oilers blow two-goal lead in St. Louis, Connor Ingram’s return, and a hat-tip to Kasperi Kapanen
- Oilers cough up two-goal lead, end road trip with 3-2 overtime loss to Blues: Recap, Reaction and Highlights
