Treena S Oil has an update via twitter this evening. She tweets "Oilers Leafs talking multiplayer deal. Omark, Gagner, Petry and Pitlick are names being mentioned as per Garfield."Let's see, that would be two young forwards who could help a team for a decade and a fine young defender who looked the part of an NHL defenseman during an expanded opportunity one year ago. Plus Pitlick who may or may not turn into something. How confident are you the Oilers win a trade involving that kind of talent heading the other way?
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October 06, 2011
Rumors today from the Big Smoke about Toronto interested in Sam Gagner. According to Damien Cox there are voices in the wind suggesting a defenseman would be coming the other way. If only it was Jim Dorey. Based on the defensemen the Leafs probably consider available, if true this could end very badly for the Oilers.
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October 08, 2011
The Edmonton Oilers have signed C Ryan Martindale to his 3-year entry level deal. Martindale will play tomorrow in Okla City for the Barons and will be part of a strong crop of AHL prospects. Martindale had a huge season in the OHL a year ago and turns 20 in late October. He could have played another season in junior, but has already played in more than 260 games at that level. He...
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October 06, 2011
The NHL starts up again tonight, it should be an exciting season in many cities across the league. Based on the media reports I've seen, three Canadian teams (Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto) will win the Stanley and there's probably 7 or 8 in the USA who feel the same way. Oiler fans have to wait until Sunday--they are the last team to pop the cork on the season--to play Pittsburgh...
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October 08, 2011
The Edmonton Oilers took to Jasper this week for a little team building and training upon the completion of the pre-season. Thanks to various tweets we have an idea of what the bus ride and week was like. At the same time, the Oilers’ lines have been shuffled for opening night and will continue to change until Tom Renney sees something he likes.
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October 07, 2011
Minor Updates and Musings
The Edmonton Oilers may not be as short on defenceman opening night as was previously believed. According to the Oilers website, “Both Ryan Whitney and Ladislav Smid are progressing and could potentially shock Oil Country by playing vs. the Penguins, but Taylor Chorney is certainly ready to go.” If Whitney feels ready to play, the team trainer clears...
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October 07, 2011
The Edmonton Oilers face several challenges in the coming season. The team is still/already riddled with injuries, don’t appear to have complete confidence in their goaltending, and the defence is still quite young and is easily the most identifiable weakness of the roster. While the Oilers appear good up front, that will depend upon the sophomores avoiding the dreaded second year...
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October 07, 2011
Even the best laid plans can fail miserably, and that appears to be the case in regard to the new Katz arena. Months and months of months and months have left the city, Katz, the province and fans about equal to the cars and trucks on this bridge. The Oilers are not promised to Edmonton and Edmonton is not promised to the Oilers. There's a pile of money, a mountain of rhetoric...
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October 08, 2011
General Manager Steve Tambellini announced today the Edmonton Oilers have agreed to terms with centre Ryan Martindale on a three-year entry level contract.
Martindale, 19, spent last season with the Ottawa 67’s in the Ontario Hockey Leagu...
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October 08, 2011
Stu MacGregor and his staff have fired 32 bullets since 2008's entry draft, and regular readers of this blog know I'm impressed with the results. Not just the two #1 overall selections, or even the MPS and Eberle picks. Not even the 2nd round picks like Anton Lander, Tyler Pitlick, Martin Marincin, Curtis Hamilton and David Musil. Those are solid names, and along with Oscar...
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October 09, 2011
As bright as the future looks for the Edmonton Oilers after picking first in each of the last two drafts, the club would much rather see results now than be in that position again next year.
Big years from top overall picks Taylor Hall and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and the rest of the Oilers' former first-rounders could help the team make a move up the standings in 2011-12.
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October 09, 2011
Well a win is a win I guess. It seems like these guys still let their guard down late though doesn’t it? Why can’t the Penguins play a full 60 minutes? Two road wins in a row, both on the west coast though, can’t complain too much about that! No goals for the great Matt [...]
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