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Report: Ryan Smyth “would give serious consideration” to joining the New York...
The Rangers supposedly covet Smyth's presence in front of the net The question of whether or not the Oilers will lend Ryan Smyth to a contending team for the last few months of the 2011-12 season is...
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Is Former Captain Mark Messier the Right Fit as General Manager of the Oilers?
The leadership skills of Mark Messier remain the stuff of legend. From his work as captain of the Oilers after Wayne Gretzky was sent away, to his famous guarantee as the captain of the New York...
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Meet the Oilers new Hall of Famer, Barrie Stafford.
The Oilers sent out some good news about long-time equipment manager Barrie Stafford: “Barrie was inducted into the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society (PHATS) and the Society of Professional...
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The one day that Mike Richter was a member of the Edmonton Oilers
Anybody who was a fan of the National Hockey League in the 1990’s remembers Mike Richter. The veteran goalie played his entire career in New York, and holds the Rangers’ team records for games played,...
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Edmonton Oilers’ top 10 all-time worst draft busts: #3 Steve Kelly
Edmonton Oilers fans had reason to be excited as we gathered at Northlands Coliseum for the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. It was the first — and still the only — time that our city had played host to the...
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Edmonton Oilers’ top 10 all-time worst draft busts: #2 Scott Allison and the...
If you wanted to identify a single day when things went south for Edmonton Oilers, June 16, 1990 would be a good choice. Things were good in Oil Country. Three weeks before, the Oilers had copped...
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Edmonton Oilers’ top 10 all-time best draft picks: #1 Mark Messier
The 1979 NHL Entry Draft was a perfect storm. Due to the machinations around the NHL-WHA merger, the draft took place late (August 9), and it was short (just 6 rounds, 126 players in all). That was the...
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Scott Gomez poised to sign with Sharks
Last week a wrinkle in the new CBA was ironed out thanks to rare agreement from both sides, and two distinguished veteran hockeyists transmogrified from personae non gratae to desirable commodities...
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Larry Gordon, first Edmonton Oilers NHL GM, passes away
Larry Gordon, who was general manager of the World Hockey Association Edmonton Oilers in November of 1978, when Wayne Gretzky was the prize in a high-stakes backgammon game between Nelson Skalbania and...
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Paul MacLean, Joel Quenneville, Bruce Boudreau NHL coach-of-the-year finalists
The coach-of-the-year award is a quirky honour, usually going to the coach whose team does the most with the least, or comes out of nowhere to be a Stanley Cup contender, not the guy behind the bench...
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Long-time Oilers PR director Bill Tuele looks back at the Gretzky trade
Bill Tuele always knew what was going on for almost 25 years as the Edmonton Oilers PR director–he was Wayne Gretzky’s handler on road trips, shepherding him around–but in the days leading up to No....
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Olympic team coach Ken Hitchcock is big Dallas Eakins fan
At a luncheon Friday, St. Louis Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock stopped just short of yelling gimme an E, gimme an A, gimme a K, gimme an I, gimme an N, gimme an S when cheerleading for new Edmonton Oilers’...
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Little surprise if Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers are talking trade...
If the Edmonton Oilers make a trade with the New York Rangers, would anybody be surprised? Admittedly, it’s been awhile, but when Glen Sather was the Oilers GM and Neil Smith was in the Rangers employ...
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Dallas Eakins unloads on fan who threw Edmonton Oilers jersey on ice
Dallas Eakins came out firing at the Oilers fan who threw his jersey onto the ice at the end of 6-0 drubbing by the St. Louis Blues Saturday, saying it showed he had “quit on the team.” The disgruntled...
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Short Shifts
Thomas Vanek may not re-sign in Montreal because he lives in Minnesota, but the other prize unrestricted free agent who was dealt at the trade deadline last week, Ryan Callahan, could stay in Tampa...
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This ‘n’ that: Glen Sather could be considering retirement following the season
Is it possible Hockey Hall of Famer Glen Sather, 70, may be thinking of retiring as a general manager if the New York Rangers make the playoffs this season? I’ve heard that. There was no response to a...
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Hall of Famer Glen Sather epitomizes the link between Edmonton Oilers & New...
Game 75: New York Rangers at Edmonton “I thought the challenge [with the Rangers] was going to be terrific, and it has been. I wouldn’t say that it has been even close to successful; it has been...
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Ryan Smyth had a tussle to get his famous 94
Ryan Smyth is the most famous 94 in NHL history, with apologies to Yanic Perreault, but there was some reluctance to give it to him here. “I remember telling Glen (GM Sather) at my second camp that I’d...
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Hockey World: Nash’s scoring futility in playoffs baffling
As I watch Rick Nash in the playoffs, I can’t help but flash back to one-time Edmonton Oilers winger Jaroslav Pouzar. After missing three or four sure goals in the Oilers’ playoff glory days, Pouzar...
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Oilers’ first Stanley Cup reunion here Oct. 8-10
The Boys on the Bus will be coming back. The Oilers Entertainment Group is bringing in the 1984 Stanley Cup champion team for a 30th reunion of the first NHL championship with then captain Wayne...
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