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2016-17 GOAT SELECTION

The annual tradition of selecting a goat for the coming season is serious business. Serious business indeed. Were it not for selecting a goat – the player whom you blame for all the problems of the team – these past 10 playoff free years would have been hard to stomach amirite? But they just flew…

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Is this the year?

Oilers fans: will you finally see some light after the Decade of Darkness? Will your beloved Oilers finally end their painful 10-year playoff drought and make the playoffs?

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MY TAKE: OILERS 2016-17

I’ve got a better feeling about the Edmonton Oilers heading into the 2016-17 NHL season than I’ve had in a long time. Optimism among fans abounds, as it always does at this time of year, and I think there’s some pretty good reasons for that.

McKenzie: Oilers to re-sign Gryba

Eric Gryba on the verge of getting a one-year, two-way deal with EDM. — Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 11, 2016 According to TSN’s Bob McKenzie, Eric Gryba is about to get a new deal with the Edmonton Oilers.

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The 2016-17 Oilers Pre-Season Roundtable

The 2016-17 NHL season is upon us and that means it was, once again, time to sit the writers down, get their thoughts for the upcoming year, and figure out exactly the Oilers are as compared to last year. Fortunately for those of you reading this, we have all the answers to the questions you’ve been…

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TOP 100 OILERS: BLAIR MACDONALD (47)

Embed from Getty Images For those too young to remember, stand-up comic and actor Rodney Dangerfield carved out a nice career in the 1970s and 1980s with his bug-eyed, tie-tugging “I don’t get no respect” shtick. For those who don’t remember Blair MacDonald, he was pretty much hockey’s version of Dangerfield as a member of…