New Oilers GM Needs To Build On Ken Holland’s Culture Shift Dale Bochon | July 20, 2024 Waiting to see who the Edmonton Oilers hire as their next general manager seems similar to how a new Pope is appointed at the Vatican. Any day now we’ll see…
Sportsnet’s Ken Reid’s Love of Hockey Runs Deep Dale Bochon | July 18, 2024 One of the things I enjoyed most about the Edmonton Oilers’ run to the Stanley Cup Final, besides the great hockey, was watching the post-game commentary on Sportsnet with Ken…
Upper Deck Celebrating 40th Anniversary of Gretzky’s 1st Stanley Cup Dale Bochon | July 13, 2024 I can’t believe it’s been 40 years since Wayne Gretzky won his first Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers. Where has the time gone? May 19, 1984, was one of…
Upper Deck Celebrates 30 Years of Young Guns at the Sphere in Vegas Dale Bochon | July 4, 2024 This past week has been a busy time for NHL teams and the league itself. The longest season in NHL history wrapped up on Monday, June 24 with the Florida…
Draisaitl’s Text to Oilers’ First-Rounder O’Reilly a Positive Sign for Fans Dale Bochon | July 1, 2024 A few rumours were floating around about the future of Leon Draisaitl and whether he’d be sticking around with the Edmonton Oilers. Some of the talk was fuelled at the…
Oilers Continue Miracle Run by Reaching Game 7 Dale Bochon | June 22, 2024 There have been very few moments in hockey that you could truly call miraculous. At the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, Al Michaels asked hockey fans if they believed in miracles…
Hope Continues to Fuel Oilers Stanley Cup Dream Dale Bochon | June 17, 2024 The Edmonton Oilers didn’t get the memo that they were supposed to lie down and die in Game 4 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final. Instead, it looks like the…
Oilers No Stranger to 2-0 Deficit in Stanley Cup Final Dale Bochon | June 12, 2024 In the storied history of the Edmonton Oilers, there have been two occasions where they lost the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final. The first was in 1983…
Oilers Fans Enjoying Stanley Cup Final Moment Dale Bochon | June 8, 2024 Something struck me recently as a great example of the passion of Edmonton Oilers fans. In the well-respected podcast 32 Thoughts The Podcast, hosts Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek discussed…
Oilers Fans’ Current Stanley Cup Dreams Started on April 18, 2015 Dale Bochon | June 1, 2024 There are moments in life when you see or hear important news and you remember where you were. People still talk about the moment they heard John F. Kennedy was…
Oilers’ 2024 Playoff Run Feeling Like 1990 for Fans Dale Bochon | May 25, 2024 Let’s go back. Way back to the spring of 1990 when people ate Tic Tacs rather than consuming TikTok. When Doc Brown (no relation to Connor Brown) and Marty were wrapping…
Kris Knoblauch Proving to Be the Right Coach for the Oilers Dale Bochon | May 23, 2024 I found the Edmonton Oilers/Vancouver Canucks second-round Stanley Cup Playoff series exciting and also quite humbling. Either team could’ve won as six of the seven games were decided by one…
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