Oilers: Revisiting The Eakins – MacTavish Regime
Back on June 10, 2013, the Edmonton Oilers made the official announcement that they had decided to part ways with their current head coach, Ralph Krueger, and replace him with…
Craig MacTavish
Connor McDavid Can’t Save the Oilers
Rome wasn’t built in a day. It’s tired. It’s over-used. It’s outstandingly accurate. As clichéd as the idiom has become it’s a lesson we should pay attention to. It’s a lesson…
Connor McDavid Is Coming To Oil Country
Connor McDavid is coming to Edmonton. I suppose technically not until June, but even the Oilers can’t make a mistake with this selection, they will take him first overall on…
MacTavish Asks Oilers Fanbase for Patience (Again)
Earlier today Edmonton Oilers GM Craig MacTavish addressed the media in his end of season press conference and once again painfully preached patience to an Oilers fanbase that hasn’t seen…
Oilers: Nail Yakupov – Trade Bait Or Building Block?
With the completion of the 2014-15 National Hockey League regular season just around the corner, one cannot help but wonder where the Edmonton Oilers organization will go from here. While…
Oilers: Has Anton Lander Done Enough?
After hearing general manager Craig MacTavish go on about the Edmonton Oilers likely plan was to stay the course and continue on their way towards allowing this group to find…
Petry Trade Should Help The Oilers In McEichel Sweepstakes
It certainly was not the sort of return fans of the Edmonton Oilers were hoping for but in the end, no one should have been overly surprised to see Jeff…
BU’s Matt O’Connor Drawing NHL Interest
Matt O’Connor’s world has certainly changed. The Boston University goaltender went from being a relative unknown, and within weeks has had no less than 14 NHL teams that have come…
Unlikely Todd Nelson Returns As Oilers Coach In 2015-16
After suffering through what was the Dallas Eakins era for just under a season and a half, it appears as though the vast majority of Edmonton Oilers fans are more…
Draisaitl, Nurse Breaking the Oilers Mould
Conventional wisdom has suggested that if a team is bad enough, long enough then eventually they will reap the rewards of multiple high draft picks, and hence the term rebuild.…
Oilers: Would $22M Keep Jeff Petry In Edmonton?
After spending the better part of a decade developing Jeff Petry into a National Hockey League defenceman, it appears as though the Edmonton Oilers have reached the point of no…
Oilers Rebuild Can Still Be Salvaged
The Edmonton Oilers have certainly had their fair share of struggles since selecting Taylor Hall with the first overall pick of the 2010 National Hockey League Entry Draft. While the…