Revisiting Oilers’ 2014-15 Prospect Pool

The Edmonton Oilers are one of the strongest teams in the NHL entering the 2023-24 season and are a favorite to win the Stanley Cup. Every team in the NHL tries to build their roster based on who they draft rather than trading for the pieces they need to succeed, ...

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Oilers’ Decade of Darkness-Ending Team: Where Are They Now?

If you are a long-time Edmonton Oilers fan, you have suffered through the "Decade of Darkness" from 2006 to 2016, when the team failed to make the playoffs. At the time, this 10-year stretch tied the NHL record for the longest playoff droug...

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Oilers’ All-Time Biggest August Trades

August is a relatively uneventful time in the NHL. The draft is several weeks bygone. Free agency has been open for a month. Teams are mostly done making major moves, and now it’s just a matter of waiting for camp to get started in September. 

August is also the m...

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Revisiting Oilers’ Foegele for Bear Trade After 2 Years

It has been two years since the Edmonton Oilers and Carolina Hurricanes made a trade swapping Warren Foegele for Ethan Bear. The trade occurred on July 28, 2021, and was a one-for-one. At the time, the Oilers needed depth scoring (as they typically do) a...

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Oilers’ Loss of Curtis Joseph in Free-Agency Rocked Franchise

Curtis Joseph’s Edmonton Oilers debut, on Jan. 13, 1996, was a transformative moment for the franchise.

Likewise, his exit from Edmonton, coming exactly two and a half years later, on July 15, 1998, was an earth-shaking event f...

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Oilers’ Promising Young 2015-16 Team: What Happened?

The Edmonton Oilers stewed at the bottom of the standings for many years and missed the playoffs in 10 consecutive seasons. The 2015-16 season just so happened to be the final one and that young team had a ton of potential. Since the Oilers got many high picks over ...

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Oilers Trade Tree: From Yakupov to Skinner

‘Fail for Nail’ rang through streets of Edmonton during the 2011-12 NHL season as the Edmonton Oilers, for the sixth straight year, slotted as lottery hopefuls rather than playoff contenders. The lottery balls fell their way, and a sure-fire Russian superstar...

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Oilers Top Rookie Seasons in Franchise History

On Wednesday (May 3) the NHL announced that Seattle Kraken center Matty Beniers, Buffalo Sabres defenseman Owen Power, and Edmonton Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner are the 2022-23 finalists for the Calder Memorial Trophy, which is awarded annually to th...

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Oilers’ First Missed Playoffs: Looking at the Impact 30 Years Later

The Edmonton Oilers are getting close to clinching a postseason berth for the fourth year in a row, their longest such stretch since making five consecutive playoff appearances from 1997 to 2001.

While Oil Country is again b...

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Remembering the Oilers’ Maroon & Kassian Era

The Edmonton Oilers have come a long way since 2015. The most unconventional and wrong way to do things was surrounding the best player in the world, Connor McDavid, with fourth-line grinders instead of talent who could perform better. That's part of the reason for the mas...

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9 Cool Things About Dave Semenko: Edmonton Oilers’ Enforcer

Dave Semenko was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a left-winger in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for two seasons and the NHL for 10 seasons. In total, he played 12 seasons in the highest professional hoc...

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6 Times the Oilers Changed Coaches During the Season

Since entering the NHL in 1979 following its merger with the World Hockey Association (WHA), the Edmonton Oilers have replaced their head coach six times during the season, most recently in 2021-22 when Jay Woodcroft took over from Dave Ti...

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Oilers’ Holiday Deals for Guerin & Hamrlik Revisited 25 Years Later

Only a few in-season transactions in the NHL history of the Edmonton Oilers coincide with a complete reversal in the team’s fortunes. Just last season after signing Evander Kane at the end of January, they climbed from six...

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Oilers’ Trade of Kevin Lowe 30 Years Ago Marked End of an Era

Through their first 13 seasons in the NHL, the Edmonton Oilers never missed the playoffs, won five Stanley Cups, played in eight Western Conference Finals, and failed to advance beyond the first round of the postseason just once in a 10-year span between 1983 and 1992. Winning was all...

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