Since the break for the 4 Nations Face-Off, the Edmonton Oilers have had several key players go down with injury, including superstars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, as well as top defenceman Mattias Ekholm, who has been ruled out for the entire first round of the playoffs.
The Edmonton Oilers were looking to keep their slim hopes of home-ice advantage in the first round alive when they visited the league-leading Winnipeg Jets for their third and final matchup of the season.
The Edmonton Oilers aren’t giving up the fight to finish with home ice advantage. On Sunday evening, they headed to Winnipeg by bus to face off against the Jets, defeating the soon-to-be Presidents’ Trophy-winning team 4-1.
The NHL began awarding the Conn Smythe Trophy to the most valuable player of the postseason beginning in the 1965 season. How many of the past winners can you name in six minutes?
If you had a bit of anxiety looking at the Edmonton Oilers’ starting line-up against the St. Louis Blues, know that you are not alone. The Oilers have been bitten by an injury bug as of late and tonight was no exception.
Connor Brown scored twice, including the game-winner with 20.4 seconds remaining in regulation, as the Edmonton Oilers edged the visiting St. Louis Blues 4-3 on Wednesday night.
Two of the top players in Ontario junior hockey in recent memory are being honoured by their former team. Earlier this week, the Ontario Hockey League announced the quarter-century team for the Erie Otters.
The Edmonton Oilers have looked shaky over the past six weeks. After a strong start to the season, they’ve stumbled to a 5-8-0 record in their last 13 games.
The Edmonton Oilers currently have an extremely deep forward group full of veteran talent, but that could change next season if Connor Brown, Jeff Skinner, and Corey Perry depart the team as free agents.
Am I petty enough to want the Edmonton Oilers to destroy the St. Louis Blues just because of this past summer’s offer sheets? Yes. Yes, I am. And thanks to some late-game heroics on Leon Draisaitl’s 37th goal of the year that sent the game to overtime, we can enjoy another win over the golf-bound Blues.
Happy New Year, Oil Country. Not only was Tuesday night a good win to end 2024, it was also an interesting display of line juggling. Connor Brown was promoted to the top line with Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
Signing Connor Brown looked like a disaster last year, but after slowly finding his game following a major injury, he's now being promoted in the lineup and scoring at an impressive rate.
The Edmonton Oilers suffered a pair of disappointing losses last weekend in California, and it was painful for everyone who spent the time watching them.
Goal number 100 found its way into the back of the net Monday night as Connor Brown hit a huge career milestone. It probably took longer than Brown wanted, now in his 10th NHL season, but it couldn’t come at a better time for the Edmonton Oilers.
The deal comes as a slight guaranteed raise from his one-year, $775K contract last season, though that deal carried $3.225M in performance bonuses which he met.
Connor Brown’s shorthanded goal at the start of Game 5 against the Florida Panthers was a huge boost to the team when the club needed a strong start in a must-win matchup.
Connor Brown went 720 days without scoring an NHL goal. He played 72 NHL games with three different teams in that span. He played the final 14 games of the 2022 season with Ottawa.
Connor Brown will slot in for the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday as their series with the Vancouver Canucks kicks off. Adam Henrique isn’t medically cleared to play, so Brown will get the call.
It didn’t need to be pretty. When you’re still searching for your first goal of the season in Game 55, you’ll take whatever you can get. So the jubilation
Edmonton Oilers forward Connor Brown is expected to be made a healthy scratch for Thursday’s game against the New Jersey Devils, Daily Faceoff‘s Frank Seravalli reported Wednesday afternoon.