With the Leafs win tonight they're in the playoffs and the Oilers are now the team with the most consecutive years on the outside looking in. That might not sound great but remember this: The Leafs suck.

In today's press conference announcing changes to the front office, those in charge, including Kevin Lowe, were asked some tough questions. This was a rather unexpected turn of events from a media group that doesn't typically question the message.

Oilers come to terms on 3 year entry level deal with 2011 pick.

It's official folks, these are the dog days of summer where there is not much hockey talk to speak of. Still we have no idea what has happened to Linus Omark, we have no idea when or if there will...

This week in oil country

The Oilers have signed Chris VandeVelde and Alex Plante to one-year contracts.

Nail Yakupov signs his ELC with the Edmonton Oilers. The new CBA was likely the cause for the delay in getting the deal signed, but doing so now makes sense for both parties.

The free agency frenzy has long since ended, but still the Oilers have yet to make any BIG moves to their roster. Yes, it's true that the Oilers did acquire Justin Schultz, but what else? Schultz...

With Sam Gagner's arbitration hear set to start in just a few hours the two sides have reached an agreement on a one-year deal that will pay the Oilers centre $3.2M this season thereby avoiding the whole arbitration process.

At this point it looks very likely that Sam Gagner's next contract will be determined not through negotiations with the Oilers but by an arbitrator.