Another week means a brand new episode of the Real Life Podcast! This week, the boys had to dig deep to find hockey topics to talk about so they ended up going all over the map in what ended up being a mixed bag, yet incredibly interesting show.
As the offseason rolls on, the newsless days provide us with the perfect opportunity to look at some of the prospects that we could be hearing more about in the future. In this edition, we look at former 5th round pick, Kirill Maksimov, who will be heading back to junior for a fourth and final…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve gone through every player who should have an impact on the Oilers and tried to guess what that players “ceiling” is, and also what their “floor” would be performance wise. In doing this, I’ll be making a few assumptions. The first being that the player stays healthy for the…
August is almost here and before you know it, NHL rookies will report September 7th and participate in rookie games before the lucky ones will join NHL veterans at main camp on September 14th. Hockey enthusiasts in Edmonton and Red Deer who are craving hockey can watch the Hlinka Gretzky Cup starting Monday, August 6th…
“At first, it seems like he’s living the life of Riley. Joe Murphy works as a laborer, when he needs money, and he sleeps in a tent in a farmer’s field, when he needs shelter.” When I read the first paragraph of a July 7 story written by Mike Aiken on Sunday, I blinked in…
Finally, the Line Combination Extravaganza has come back to Oilersnation! Too much? I don’t think so. After finishing the first two parts of this series I started to get worried I would run out of line combinations. Wow, was I wrong!
Another Monday is here to ruin your practice retirement and that sucks, there’s no doubt, but the first day of the week also means another edition of the Monday Mailbag. As always, the mailbag is here to help you kill off a few minutes of your day and maybe, just maybe, help you learn a…
As the offseason hits the midway point, it’s getting progressively harder and harder to find stuff to talk about as most of the NHL heads out on holidays, training sessions, and whatever else is going on. Fortunately, Connor McDavid is always worth talking about and I found a 10-minute video compilation of some of his…
Today, I want to talk about a concept I call Schedule Pace or maybe more accurately, Relative Schedule Pace. NHL teams each have a schedule that starts and finishes at approximately the same time. What I’m after is a definition of “pace” that addresses the fact that over the course of a season, some teams…
This is one part of a player-by-player Year in Review series we’ll be doing over the next couple months as we look back on the 2017-18 Edmonton Oilers season. 2017-18 Edmonton Oilers No. 27: Milan Lucic GP: 82 – G: 10, A: 24, PTS: 34 Milan Lucic’s 2017-18 season was nothing short of a complete…
The sunshine of positivity is shining so bright Edmonton can barely handle it. Last week’s sunshine had us basking in a rookie who has the RD looking oh so bright going forward. This week we take a look at the Oilers RW options, and that crowd favourite pizza eating, tongue loving man. So sit back, slide…
Milan Lucic jumped on the Spittin’ Chiclets podcast this morning for what turned out to be a very solid interview about his time in Boston, what it’s like to play for the Oilers, what went wrong last year, and how he plans on bouncing back for the upcoming season. As always, I’ve got the breakdown.
