34 h. ago Oilers lose, but get their licks in in playoff preview with LA Kings

Well, the suspicions are confirmed — if you take Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman, Mattias Ekholm, Jake Walman, Trent Frederic and Evander Kane out of Edmonton’s lineup, they aren’t going to beat the Los Angeles Kings. The experiment played out just the way everyone thought it would Monday night when the Oilers, minus $41.5 […]

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34 h. ago Oilers lose, but get their licks in playoff preview with LA Kings

Well, the suspicions are confirmed — if you take Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman, Mattias Ekholm, Jake Walman, Trent Frederic and Evander Kane out of Edmonton’s lineup, they aren’t going to beat the Los Angeles Kings. The experiment played out just the way everyone thought it would Monday night when the Oilers, minus $41.5 […]

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66 h. ago Ekholm injury question leaves dark cloud hanging over Edmonton Oilers

The Edmonton Oilers have shown they can weather the storm of being without Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl, or even both at the same time, here in the playoff stretch. And while both offensive powerhouses will be back in time for the post-season to commence in a week, there is a much darker cloud hanging […]

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1 week ago When and where the Edmonton Oilers will find Stanley Cup traction, consistency: 9 Things

And down the stretch we go. Just where the Edmonton Oilers will finish the regular season and who they may face in Round One of The Stanley Cup Playoffs is still unclear. Although yet another meeting with the L.A. Kings seems likely. The bigger questions are what lineup the banged-up Oilers are able to ice […]

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1 week ago Insiders spell out tentative timeline for return of star Edmonton Oilers

Game Day 76: Oilers vs Kings This in from host Bob Stauffer of Oilers Now and his guest Frank Seravalli of The Daily Faceoff, their tentative timeline for the return to play of injured Oilers such as Trent Frederic, Connor McDavid, Mattias Ekholm, Leon Draisaitl and Evander Kane. The Oilers have seven games left, with […]

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1 week ago Draisaitl out 'short term' as Edmonton Oilers brace for L.A. Kings

No Leon Draisaitl. No Connor McDavid. No Mattias Ekholm. No Stuart Skinner. That’s not a great way to be heading into Los Angeles for the biggest game of the regular season so far, but that’s the cold, harsh reality of the Edmonton Oilers situation right now. The race for second place in the Pacific Division […]

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1 week ago Après Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl tombe encore au combat: un autre malheur s'abat sur les Oilers

Leur meilleur pointeur a quitté la rencontre en deuxième période et n'a plus été revu par la suite.

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1 week ago Edmonton Oilers pick up 2 points in San Jose but lose Leon Draisaitl in the process: Cult of Hockey Player Grades

“Never in doubt”, as our dearly departed colleague would have said… The Edmonton Oilers kept their Pacific Division title hunt alive with a big two points in San Jose Thursday night. But Leading NHL MVP candidate Leon Draisaitl left the game with about six minutes left in the second and did not return. It appeared […]

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1 week ago Two skilled European centres signed by the Oilers took different paths to the NHL club

If you are the Edmonton Oilers and in serious win-now mode with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and trading away draft picks for immediate help, one of the few avenues to travel to restock the pipeline is through European free-agency. So, we bring you Josh Samanski and David Tomasek. Two skilled centres who have gone […]

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2 w. ago Player grades: Draisaitl, Pickard drive victory again, as Edmonton Oilers beat Vegas Golden Knights 3

Leon Draisaitl gave away the lead in the first but got it back in the second, leading the Edmonton Oilers to an 3-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights. Calvin Pickard also came up huge, making a huge stop with 90 seconds left. The game was a tight-checking defensive struggle. Edmonton now has 91 points, […]

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2 w. ago Toronto Maple Leafs record held by Mats Sundin for 28 years has been broken

If you've spent any time watching William Nylander playing this season for the Toronto Maple Leafs, it'd be pretty easy to make the case that he's the best he's ever looked.While he's 19 points of his career-high 98 points achieved last season with just eight games left for Toronto, one could argue that this has been Nylander's most dynamic offensive year yet.With a career-high 42 goals, which sit him second in the entire NHL behind Edmonton's Leon Draisaitl, Nylander has been a driving force behind Toronto's offence all season long.And it turns out that he actually quietly set a Leafs record last week, despite not much fanfare circling on it.With Nylander's 42nd of the season scored in a 6-5 shootout loss to the San Jose Sharks, he actually one-upped countryman Mats Sundin for the best single-season goal-scoring mark in Leafs history by a European player. Sundin topped out at 41 in the 1996-97 seasons, 2001-02 season topping a previous mark of 32 set by Czech winger Miroslav Frycer...

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2 w. ago Who is the NHL's deadliest dual scoring threat? It's definitely Draisaitl

Seems like we’ve been talking about Leon Draisaitl quite a bit at the Cult of Hockey lately. Pre-game Saturday, when I wrote of his impending return to a depleted Edmonton Oilers line-up badly in need of a boost. Post-game, when David Staples awarded him the highest grade of any Oiler after yet another brilliant performance by #29 […]

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2 w. ago Is there any doubt? Leon Draisaitl is this year's Most Valuable Player

If Leon Draisaitl lost any ground in the race for the NHL’s Hart and Ted Lindsay awards because he sat out four games and dropped to third in league scoring, he made all of it back in one giant leap Saturday night. Might as well call it “one giant leap for mankind” because it was […]

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2 w. ago And the legend of the Edmonton Oilers' Leon Draisaitl continues to grow: 9 Things

What a hockey game Saturday night! The National Hockey League cheats its fans when it only schedules the Battle of Alberta three times in a season. But like all great dramas, this one had a star at the heart of its plot. That and more in this edition of 9 Things 9. I have lost […]

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2 w. ago Three takeaways as Flames admit ‘we kind of blew it’ in Edmonton

For nearly 57 minutes, Dustin Wolf and the Calgary Flames had silenced the NHL’s leading lamp-lighter. And then, with 3:12 remaining in regulation, Leon Draisaitl sniped his 50th of the season. During the sudden-death session, the Edmonton Oilers’ second-fiddle superstar scored No. 51. In what was a speedy, scrappy, tight-checking and hard-hitting edition of the […]

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2 w. ago NHL's leading goal scorer Leon Draisaitl coming back in for Oilers

Something might as well start going right for the Edmonton Oilers. With league-leading goal scorer Leon Draisaitl returning to the lineup as early as Saturday’s Battle of Alberta against a diehard Calgary Flames squad battling for its playoff life, the Oilers will take any and all help they can get at this point in the […]

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2 w. ago Welcome news as Leon Draisaitl rejoins Edmonton Oilers for crucial Battle of Alberta

Game Day 73: Calgary at Edmonton When Edmonton Oilers recently lost superstar forwards Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid to injury in consecutive games, the immediate and obvious concern was, how on earth will the team compensate for its missing offence? After all, Draisaitl had scored 101 points and McDavid 90 before their departure from the line-up. The […]

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2 w. ago 'The best thing for the Oilers': NHL insider with surprising spin on injuries

This in from NHL insider Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, who recently spent a few days in Edmonton, his surprisingly positive spin on the Edmonton Oilers’ injury situation. On his 32 Thoughts podcast this Friday, Friedman said Leon Draisaitl might be back playing Saturday night, with McDavid a little longer. “You know, the one thing I […]

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3 w. ago 5 THINGS: Superstar injuries offering a case study for Edmonton Oilers

Both Connor McDavid (lower body) and Leon Draisaitl (undisclosed) are out for at least this week.

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3 w. ago 'Don't panic': Don Cherry with wise words on Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl injuries

Hockey’s most venerable commentator Don Cherry sees the bright side of injuries to Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. On his Grapevine podcast, he had two words of advice for fans of the Edmonton Oilers: “Don’t panic.” The two superstars will be able to rest, practicing with the team, but not playing. On the other hand, […]

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