Welcome to the hell dimension! A place where cats bark and dogs meow. A place where The Big Bang Theory is on season 37. It’s also a place where the NHL continues to make bizarre choices to complicate every single aspect of their league.
First of all, this headline title comes courtesy of my nerd brain and the greatness that is the X-Men movie “Days of Future Past”.
The NHL draft lottery goes tonight, but it will be much different than previous lotteries. Because one, two or even three teams could win the lottery (top-three picks) tonight, and not even know it. That is not a typo. Let me explain.
The thing about awards or honors that are voted on, like induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, is that, aside from obvious first-ballot guys like Jarome Iginla, there is going to be debate. Not only among the 18 voters comprising the HHOF committee, where 14 voters must agree before a player is inducted, but…
Welcome back to another edition of Throwback Thursday!
The old saying goes third time’s the charm. In the case of Kevin Lowe and the Hockey Hall of Fame, it was 19th time the charm as Lowe was inducted into the 2020 class of the Hockey Hall of Fame in his 19th year of eligibility.
We’re roughly six or seven weeks away from the NHL’s season resuming which means it is a perfect time to start dissecting what the Oilers lineup should look like when the puck drops in early August. Last week, I wrote about both the top six and the bottom six. Today, I want to focus on…
Every year, the Alberta government releases a list of all the baby boy names and baby girl names in the province for the previous year.
The Edmonton Oilers already have a number of players in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The Nation Network continues our series on the seven Canadian franchise’s all-time rosters of drafted players. While unrestricted free agency gets more focus each summer, the draft is much more important to an organization’s long-term success. The NHL Entry Draft is the scouts’ championship. It is very difficult projecting how good teenage hockey players will…
Anyone who follows the NHL Draft closely knows how accurate Bob McKenzie’s final draft ranking is. It makes sense considering this isn’t McKenzie’s personal opinion as much as it’s a collection of information he gets from a group of scouts that he talks to on a regular basis. It’s deadly accurate.
Sobering Thoughts is a weekly column bringing you a hot take about the Edmonton Oilers brought to you by NATION COFFEE. Good morning and welcome to the first-ever rendition of Sobering Thoughts. This weekly column will serve as a spot for a hot take that you maybe don’t want to hear and is brought to…
