The Edmonton Oilers will begin the season with a shorthanded lineup. Forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins sustained an injury in practice that will force him out for roughly two weeks, head coach Mike Babcock told Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
For a number of Edmonton Oilers, their game just isn’t NHL-ready. Whether they’re prospects or journeymen, they’re all working on their game, and this season will be no different.
The Edmonton Oilers enter the season with a new bench boss in Mike Babcock, fresh additions throughout the lineup, and the same annual mantra echoing through the room: start strong.
Some coaching changes make you wonder what the new guy will bring. And then there is Mike Babcock arriving in Edmonton. The Oilers don't exactly need somebody to teach Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl how to play offence.
The 2026-27 NHL season begins Tuesday night, and several teams hope to hoist the Stanley Cup in June. However, no team is facing as much pressure as the Edmonton Oilers, who are entering a Stanley Cup or bust season.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
After a significantly-shortened training camp, the Edmonton Oilers have announced their opening-night roster. This comes ahead of tonight’s opener against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Place.
On the morning of the season opener, Edmonton Oilers fans got some disappointing news. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins will not be available to play against the Vancouver Canucks tonight due to a lower-body injury, according to coach Mike Babcock.
Have you ever been attracted to someone who just wasn’t right for you? Maybe they had a radiant smile or a charming personality, but under the surface, the two of you just weren’t compatible.
Zach Hyman was clear about one thing after practice on Monday. Mike Babcock is back behind an NHL bench, but the players are the ones who have to go out and prove it.
The marathon begins tonight. An even longer marathon called the 2026-27 NHL season, a journey of 84 regular season games, must start with a single game tonight for the Edmonton Oilers.
Coaching: Maybe there’s 10% of the fanbase who like having Mike Babcock make his NHL return with this team. But that doesn’t matter; he was hired as the new head coach at the end of the day.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Tristan Jarry will start versus the Vancouver Canucks, according to Edmonton Oilers Head Coach Mike Babcock. Even if one could argue Devon Levi won the job with his play Saturday evening versus the Calgary Flames, it’s not always about a single performance, and a decision isn’t always based on the numbers.
Though the season is just getting underway, speculation about future moves is always afoot. There is still much for the Oilers to sort out, as is the case around the league.
Every year, there are a handful of players that unexpectedly make the cut with an NHL team. This fall, the Edmonton Oilers might have the most surprising one of them all.
Training camp has wrapped up, all the pre-season games have been played, and the Edmonton Oilers finished with a perfect 4-0 record in the exhibition games.
The new season is upon us as teams will play their opening game or two throughout this week. All eyes will be on the stars on the ice, and fans will be paying close attention to how their team comes out of the gate.
The Edmonton Oilers have started a new NHL season with a 4-0 record against Canadian teams in pre-season play. Yes, the opponents were not Stanley Cup contenders but we saw many differences in the initial look of the 2026-2027 Oilers.
Pencils down, front offices. The NHL’s roster deadline came and went on Monday at 3 p.m. MT, when all 32 teams needed to get their cap-compliant teams set.
How the Oilers set the tone of their game in the pre-season During the Edmonton Oilers’ exhibition game against Vancouver on Sept. 24, Filip Chytil collided with an official below the goal line to the immediate left of Tristan Jarry.
Every year, there is a big surprise at Edmonton Oilers training camp. Some years it’s a young Magnus Paajarvi, some years it’s Ty Rattie, and some years it’s Jesse Joensuu.
The Edmonton Oilers made some bold decisions in their quest to return to Stanley Cup glory. Their season opener at home against the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday is the first chance to see whether those moves will pay dividends.
Sportsnet insider Frank Seravalli, in his first column for the network, predicted Connor McDavid will not sign an extension with the Edmonton Oilers next summer and will instead play out 2027-28 elsewhere.
The Edmonton Oilers entered training camp with plenty of questions surrounding their forward group, and one of them involved where Kasperi Kapanen would fit into the lineup.
No team is under more pressure to win in 2026-27 than the Edmonton Oilers, because the future of their captain and the world’s best player could very well be riding on it.
As part of their desperate desire to win a Stanley Cup with Connor McDavid, the Edmonton Oilers have made a lot of controversial decisions over the past few years.