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One of the surprise stories in the NHL this season, the Los Angeles Kings are now tied for first in the NHL Pacific Division with the San Jose Sharks. While the Kings fail to lead in any categories the NHL might consider critical to success, ie. Goals Against, Goals For, Penalty Kill, or Power Play; somehow they manage to stay near the leaderboard in terms of the overall standings. Here's ...

Here in Edmonton, rumours about the hockey team are thrown around like hacky sacks. When the team is hot, it would be a sin for anyone to be moved even though the Oilers still have contracts that aren't great for the future success of the team. Of course, when the team is slumping, everyone is the next one to go. Enter in talks about Ales Hemsky. Even though Hemsky is injured and can't ...

Dustin Penner has been nothing short of incredible for the Edmonton Oilers this year. By leaps and bounds, he's been the Oilers' most productive player, and the results of his play are starting to produce dividends. Outside of the fact that the Oilers have won four in a row on the road and on the same trip (something they hadn't done since November of 1988), Penner has been officially added to ...

While the shot counter was deceivingly close, the Oilers were bombed in a 7-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on the first of a long road trip. This loss puts the Oilers at an embarrassing third from last in the Western Conference, above only Anaheim and Minnesota, both of whom have three games in hand on Edmonton. This has not been the best of times, as the Oilers are now 4-11-3 ...

Dustin Penner has easily been the Edmonton Oilers best hockey player this season. With now 13 goals and 25 points and a plus/minus +11 in 23 games, Penner has been the only shining spot in an otherwise poor season for the Oilers to date. Hemsky, Visnovksy, and Ladislav Smid have also beenágood for Edmonton, but none (with the exception of Penner) have had a point in the season go by without ...

I know that in the grand scheme of things, I'm supposed to be impartial. That I should write the news and notes on a team without acting as a "homer" for the city in which I live. But, it shouldácome as no surprise, that as an Oilers blogger, I'm also an Oilers fan. So when Dany Heatley essentially snubbed the Edmonton Oilers during the summer and refused to waive his no-trade clause ...

After Wednesday's come-from-behind win over the Colorado Avs, a blogger like myself had a plethora of story lines to select from. Should I talk about Jeff Deslauriers finally getting some game action, only to start out poorly, worry the entire coaching staff, then make up for it towards the latter half of the game? It would have been scary if the Oilers felt they had to ...

Denis Grebeshkov is out. From a report we heard and an Oilers twitter confirmation, he injured his knee in the final minute of the Buffalo game and won't be with the Oilers for the final two games of this five game road trip. When this season started, would you have ever guessed that the Oilers, of all things, would be running out of viable defensemen? It ...

This is Steve Staios. For a while he played right wing with the Atlanta Thrashers. In Edmonton, he's known as a stay-at-home defenseman. Pretty soon, he might be known as a goalie. Should the injury situation in Edmonton get so bad that the Oilers find a few man games go missing between their goalies, suit Staios up, he's definitely ready. All joking aside, in a heartbreaking ...

Over the past couple of weeks, there has been an increase in the amount of typical rumor mill garbage that has surfaced about the Oilers. I say garbage, because 99 percent of what's out there isn't usually very accurate. It's likely no coincidence that stirrings began when Edmonton dipped in the NHL standings. With that said, let's look at a rundown of some of the latest "buzz" and weigh in on what ...