With it sounding like Edmonton Oilers’ GM Ken Holland won’t jump into the market for a goaltender before the trade deadline Monday – we can’t say for sure because managers almost never show us their cards – it’s a good a time for Mike Smith and Mikko Koskinen to be battling it out in the…
When we first laid eyes on Leon Draisaitl as a member of the Edmonton Oilers back in 2014-15, a large segment of the eyeballs keeping tabs on the big German from Cologne deemed him a pass-first type of player. Back then, he was.
There are games where it’s probably best to turn your eyes away from the ugly details of what-why-how it happened and skip right to the bottom line. The Edmonton Oilers’ 7-5 win over the Detroit Red Wings at Rogers Place Tuesday is one of those. Take the points. On to the next one.
For a goaltender who just passed Curtis Joseph for career wins with the Edmonton Oilers with a 4-1 decision over the Tampa Bay Lightning last Saturday, and will pull even with Dwayne Roloson the next time he wins a game, Mikko Koskinen sure hears a lot about what he can’t do.
Even with Dave Tippett out of the picture with the Edmonton Oilers in favor of Jay Woodcroft, it seems to me veteran goaltender Mike Smith is still getting more opportunity than he’s earned this season. On the flipside, Stuart Skinner seems to be getting less.
It’s no surprise that Edmonton Oilers’ coach Jay Woodcroft was obviously very happy for Brad Malone after the journeyman forward scored a goal and added an assist in Wednesday’s 4-3 overtime win over the Washington Capitals at Rogers Place.
It was a year and a couple days ago when the Calgary Flames cut loose coach Geoff Ward after an 11-11-2 start and brought back Darryl Sutter. I thought Sutter’s no-nonsense approach would make the Flames a playoff team and put some bang back in the Battle of Alberta.
Criticism of Mike Smith by the Edmonton Oilers fan base after Saturday night’s 5-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens was virtually unanimous, and rightfully so. The only significant variation on that theme was a matter of degree. From reasoned observations to full-blown rants, I saw three levels of dissatisfaction. Look at the numbers. Mike Smith…
As Saturday nights go, they don’t get much better for fans of the Edmonton Oilers than settling into a sold-out Rogers Place for the buzz that comes with a 5 p.m. start against the Montreal Canadiens on Hockey Night in Canada.
As many times as Mikko Koskinen has been ridiculed and written off during his tenure with the Edmonton Oilers, I can understand how it might have been tempting for him to fire back at his critics after he shut out the Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 Tuesday.
It’s probably a stretch to suggest the Edmonton Oilers getting defenceman Duncan Keith back tonight after nine games and 19 days out of the line-up is the same as adding a new player at the NHL trade deadline March 21, but the timing certainly works. The Oilers put together a 6-3-0 stretch without Keith after…
Even though Ryan Smyth had talked privately about not being willing to take a hometown discount to stay with the Edmonton Oilers in the days leading up to the 2007 NHL trade deadline, I didn’t see the events that unfolded 15 years ago today coming.
