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Game 29 2018-19: Wild at Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers return from a quick two-game road trip (1-1-0) facing a difficult weekend against the Minnesota Wild and Calgary Flames. The team is 5-2-1 under Ken Hitchcock and looking to improve its record against the Western Conference and Pacific Division. Cooper Marody has been re...
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The Edmonton Oilers return from a quick two-game road trip (1-1-0) facing a difficult weekend against the Minnesota Wild and Calgary Flames. The team is 5-2-1 under Ken Hitchcock and looking to improve its record against the Western Conference and Pacific Division. Cooper Marody has been re...
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Keep on Choogling
To borrow the spirit of an old country song, if drinking don’t kill me, the Oilers will. The first period of last night’s game resembled the first five minutes of an episode of Law and Order. Assault? Murder? Whatever, it wasn’t looking good. The Oilers pushed back in the second...
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To borrow the spirit of an old country song, if drinking don’t kill me, the Oilers will. The first period of last night’s game resembled the first five minutes of an episode of Law and Order. Assault? Murder? Whatever, it wasn’t looking good. The Oilers pushed back in the second...
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Game 28 2018-19: Oilers at Blues
The Edmonton Oilers lost in Dallas without Connor McDavid, but with the captain back have a good chance to win against the St. Louis Blues this evening. McDavid doesn’t just cut the game in half, he brings possession, goal differential and exhausts the other team’s best for over 20 mi...
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The Edmonton Oilers lost in Dallas without Connor McDavid, but with the captain back have a good chance to win against the St. Louis Blues this evening. McDavid doesn’t just cut the game in half, he brings possession, goal differential and exhausts the other team’s best for over 20 mi...
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No Country For Old Men
The Edmonton Oilers rely heavily on Connor McDavid every game, every night. That point was driven home—as if we didn’t already know—in Dallas last night. I saw some hard work in the first two periods, combined with some dumb bad luck and curious decisions. The third period was a mess around...
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The Edmonton Oilers rely heavily on Connor McDavid every game, every night. That point was driven home—as if we didn’t already know—in Dallas last night. I saw some hard work in the first two periods, combined with some dumb bad luck and curious decisions. The third period was a mess around...
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Game 27 2018-19: Oilers at Stars
After a 4-1-1 run with new coach Ken Hitchcock at the helm, the Edmonton Oilers head out on a road trip with a chance to land in a playoff spot before returning home. The goaltending of Mikko Koskinen (save percentage .928, ranks No. 6 among goalies with 10 or more appearances), steady play and c...
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After a 4-1-1 run with new coach Ken Hitchcock at the helm, the Edmonton Oilers head out on a road trip with a chance to land in a playoff spot before returning home. The goaltending of Mikko Koskinen (save percentage .928, ranks No. 6 among goalies with 10 or more appearances), steady play and c...
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Good Day Sunshine
Edmontonians have been learning all kinds of new phrases, like “get on the grind” and “vibrant fibre” and so far not one citizen has batted an eye. If Hitchcock starts next week with “I think Ryan Smyth can still play” there’s not a taxpayer within the ci...
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Edmontonians have been learning all kinds of new phrases, like “get on the grind” and “vibrant fibre” and so far not one citizen has batted an eye. If Hitchcock starts next week with “I think Ryan Smyth can still play” there’s not a taxpayer within the ci...
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Game 26 2018-19: Golden Knights at Oilers
The Oilers cliffhanger season enters its third chapter tonight as the team hosts Vegas. An October surprise (6-4-1) gave way to a devastating (for many, including the head coach) November (6-7-1). We’re on to a long December, with reason to believe that maybe this year will be better than t...
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The Oilers cliffhanger season enters its third chapter tonight as the team hosts Vegas. An October surprise (6-4-1) gave way to a devastating (for many, including the head coach) November (6-7-1). We’re on to a long December, with reason to believe that maybe this year will be better than t...
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Hang ‘Em High
Oilers fans worked themselves into a gigantic lather on Thursday night, with rat fink Dustin Brown and his band of demons breaking all the rules and never getting caught. It was a combination of the old west, Dirty Harry and three blind mice in stripes at Rogers—and the fans were beside themselve...
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Oilers fans worked themselves into a gigantic lather on Thursday night, with rat fink Dustin Brown and his band of demons breaking all the rules and never getting caught. It was a combination of the old west, Dirty Harry and three blind mice in stripes at Rogers—and the fans were beside themselve...
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Game 25 2018-19: Kings at Oilers
We’re down to this: November will be disappointing no matter tonight’s outcome, but a win turns “gut shot” into a flesh wound, allowing the Oilers to fight another day. As I ponder this Ken Hitchock hire more and more, I do believe it’s damn the torpedoes; making the...
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We’re down to this: November will be disappointing no matter tonight’s outcome, but a win turns “gut shot” into a flesh wound, allowing the Oilers to fight another day. As I ponder this Ken Hitchock hire more and more, I do believe it’s damn the torpedoes; making the...
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Grindhouse
The Edmonton Oilers are now 2-1-1 in the team’s first four games with Ken Hitchcock at the helm. Fans are beginning to understand that Hitchcock is hockey for “we’re going to work really hard to limit progress and that’s all the time, no exceptions” every night. Even...
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The Edmonton Oilers are now 2-1-1 in the team’s first four games with Ken Hitchcock at the helm. Fans are beginning to understand that Hitchcock is hockey for “we’re going to work really hard to limit progress and that’s all the time, no exceptions” every night. Even...
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Game 24 2018-19: Stars at Oilers
I’m enjoying the “Ken Hitchcock: Mall Walker Set Free” coaching return despite the 1-1-1 record, and can’t wait for episode four. There’s a lot of back story this evening, we might hear the coach mention some old timey Dallas players in the pre or post (“I thin...
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I’m enjoying the “Ken Hitchcock: Mall Walker Set Free” coaching return despite the 1-1-1 record, and can’t wait for episode four. There’s a lot of back story this evening, we might hear the coach mention some old timey Dallas players in the pre or post (“I thin...
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Helpless
The Oilers cheated on old Hoss last night, they came out with one of those glazed starts we’ve come to accept during the Wander Years. I expect the coach will have something for the group in the coming days, some “Effort for Dummies” slides and “Why Trains Run On Time̶...
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The Oilers cheated on old Hoss last night, they came out with one of those glazed starts we’ve come to accept during the Wander Years. I expect the coach will have something for the group in the coming days, some “Effort for Dummies” slides and “Why Trains Run On Time̶...
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Game 23 2018-19: Oilers at Kings
Ken Hitchcock used the off day in California to further intoxicate Oilers nation with his sexy verbal. This time it was all about turning Jesse Puljujarvi into Jere Lehtinen (he didn’t say that, this is my imagination running away with me). Hitch talked about getting ‘the glide out...
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Ken Hitchcock used the off day in California to further intoxicate Oilers nation with his sexy verbal. This time it was all about turning Jesse Puljujarvi into Jere Lehtinen (he didn’t say that, this is my imagination running away with me). Hitch talked about getting ‘the glide out...
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A Trip to Forestall
His face-off percentage was in the ditch, the possession numbers a calamity and the shot share worthy of an investigation. I loved every minute of it. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins can forecheck like a demon and yesterday afternoon Ken Hitchcock decided to release the hounds. Edmonton didn’t win the ...
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His face-off percentage was in the ditch, the possession numbers a calamity and the shot share worthy of an investigation. I loved every minute of it. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins can forecheck like a demon and yesterday afternoon Ken Hitchcock decided to release the hounds. Edmonton didn’t win the ...
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Game 22 2018-19: Oilers at Ducks
Sometimes you stare at a problem so long it’s impossible to see the forest for the trees. Sometimes a fresh set of eyes can solve the puzzle. That’s the task for Ken Hitchcock over the next 60 games of this NHL season. Find a way to win enough games to make the second season. He [R...
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Sometimes you stare at a problem so long it’s impossible to see the forest for the trees. Sometimes a fresh set of eyes can solve the puzzle. That’s the task for Ken Hitchcock over the next 60 games of this NHL season. Find a way to win enough games to make the second season. He [R...
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