62 h. ago Local spending during Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup Final trumped by conference championship

While the Edmonton Oilers’ return to the Stanley Cup Final ended in disappointment, the series pushed spending near the arena to almost double the daily average. In a recent report, payment processing company Moneris released the latest data on spending in Edmonton during the Stanley Cup Finals. After cataloguing spending during Oilers playoff games, the […]

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1 week ago The Edmonton Oilers' GM faces a summer that could be franchise

The Edmonton Oilers are about to enter a phase of the McDavid era that could end up franchise-defining. They remain in a Stanley Cup window. Only this year McDavid is on the final year of his existing contract. And he, quite understandably, wants to win. So, how does Stan Bowman make that happen? Does he […]

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1 week ago Oilers GM addresses future of McDavid, Bouchard, coaches and goalies

It was like going to the belly flop contest and seeing nothing but skinny dudes on the diving board. On the second day of the NHL Draft, the big splash never came. Not for the Edmonton Oilers, anyway. Fans hoping for, or even expecting, a major move that might push the two-time Western Conference champions […]

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1 week ago Edmonton Oilers get a new goalie (late round pick out of Finland)

The Edmonton Oilers have drafted goalie Daniel Salonen out of Finland 191st overall. Tony Brar of Oilers TV said, “The Edmonton Oilers select G Daniel Salonen (Finland – Lukko U20) with the 191st pick. Right-catching goaltender coming in at 6’3, 185-pounds. 23-1-0 with a .933 SV% and 1.55 GAA in U20 Division + nine wins […]

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1 week ago Where is the Edmonton Oilers roster heading into the NHL off

And more importantly, where does it need to be if this team finally hopes to make it over the Stanley Cup Final hump?

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2 w. ago 'This ends now': It's time for change in Edmonton Oilers nets, but what to do?

The one big thing experts agree on when it comes to the goalie situation of the Edmonton Oilers is that it’s time for change, even if that is for change itself. But in trying to make such a move, ESPN analyst Ray Ferraro said the Oilers are “in a tough spot.” On his Ray & […]

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2 w. ago Edmonton Oilers "poked around" trading for top NHL goalie. Still interested in him?

This in from Boston hockey commentator Jimmy Murphy, news that the Edmonton Oilers looked into the acquisition price of Boston Bruins Jeremy Swayman last fall, before 26-year-old Bruins goalie signed an eight-year, $66 million contract with the Bruins last Oct. 6. Swayman followed up that contract with a mediocre season, an .892 save percentage in […]

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2 w. ago SIMMONS SAYS: The Florida Panthers are one of hockey’s greatest teams

The real lesson from the Stanley Cup final: Teams win championships, individuals do not. In the end, the Florida Panthers crushed the two best players in the world, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. Just as they crushed the Carolina Hurricanes and the Maple Leafs and before that the Tampa Bay Lightning. They had 11 blowout […]

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2 w. ago Edmonton Oilers GM Bowman: 'I think Kris (Knoblauch) is going to be the coach here for a while'

Roster questions abound for the Edmonton Oilers heading into the second off-season in a row having lost in the Stanley Cup Final. What’s going to happen with goaltending that was great, yet still not nearly good enough when it mattered most? Will the defensive corps be kept together, or will they have to spend half […]

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2 w. ago 'It's my job to connect with Connor': Oilers GM ready and waiting to work with McDavid on new deal

Oilers GM Stan Bowman says he’s looking at making changes in goal and at forward with the Edmonton Oilers, but he’s not looking at major change, given the success of the Stanley Cup Final team. Said Bowman at his season-end press conference today: “Sitting here today with the way it ended, it certainly feels like […]

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2 w. ago Stanley Cup final averaged less U.S. viewers than in 2024 — and less than 4 Nations final

Ratings for the Cup final were significantly lower than the 4 Nations Face-Off in February.

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2 w. ago Oilers notes: Evan Bouchard driven to seek new deal with Edmonton

While Evan Bouchard was focusing on Brad Marchand, Sam Bennett and whatever Florida Panthers player was bearing down on him in the Stanley Cup Final, trying to take the puck off him, it should be a friendlier negotiation on a new contract. At least, with the term for the restricted free agent. The Oilers likely […]

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2 w. ago The strategic blunder that doomed the Edmonton Oilers against Florida this year

The Florida Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers in the 2024 and 2025 Stanley Cup Final, but the while the difference between the two teams was razor thin in 2024, it was more of a deep chasm in 2025. This year the Panthers proved to be a far better team than the Oilers, in part because […]

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2 w. ago Are this year’s Florida Panthers the best team of the NHL’s salary cap era?

WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of Off The Post, Toronto Sun sports columnist Steve Simmons, Postmedia hockey columnist Bruce Garrioch and Postmedia’s Rob Wong recap Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. They discuss whether this year’s Panthers are the best team of the salary cap era and what the future holds for the […]

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3 w. ago What went wrong for the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Final? Three factors

That’s back-to-back eliminations from the Stanley Cup Final, where the Edmonton Oilers didn’t even bother to show up. Make that three in a row, going back to Game 7 of the 2006 playoff run where they were outplayed worse than the scoreboard indicated in a 3-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. For as great a […]

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3 w. ago Edmonton Oilers already picked as early Stanley Cup favourites in 2026

Cue the doom and gloom. The Edmonton Oilers lost in the Stanley Cup Final. Again. To the Florida Panthers. Again. And somehow, this time seems even worse than the last time around, when they bounced back from a 3-0 series deficit to force Game 7, only to end up losing by the slimmest of margins, […]

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3 w. ago BY THE NUMBERS: The Florida Panthers’ run to the 2025 Stanley Cup

The Florida Panthers are back-to-back Stanley Cup champions after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in their rematch final.

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3 w. ago Most wise and most foolish things said after Edmonton Oilers lost to Florida Panthers

The Edmonton Oilers lost the Stanley Cup Final for the second year in a row. There was plenty of sharp instant analysis of the defeat, but this being the age of social media, there was also no shortage of foolish commentary. We’ll look at highlights from both. Here are some of the stand-outs in the […]

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3 w. ago 'Choked in the finals': Wisest and most foolish things said after Edmonton Oilers lost to Florida Panthers

The Edmonton Oilers lost the Stanley Cup Final for the second year in a row. There was plenty of sharp instant analysis of the defeat, but this being the age of social media, there was also no shortage of foolish commentary. We’ll look at highlights from both. Here are some of the stand-outs in the […]

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3 w. ago Edmonton Oilers can't 'drag 'em back to Alberta' for Game 7 showdown

The best the Edmonton Oilers could have hoped for facing elimination in Tuesday’s Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final was to be able to face another elimination game Friday. That was the consequence of a 5-2 loss in Game 5 on Saturday to the very same Florida Panthers the Oilers needed four straight wins […]

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