The Copper & Blue, an Edmonton Oilers community

One of the statistics that the number crunchers on various Oilers blogs constantly refer to is shooting percentage. A high shooting percentage (compared to a player's career average) likely...

When the rumour mill churns out a name other than Jarret Stoll or Joni Pitkanen, it's usually Raffi Torres. A player widely disparaged (see here for one particularly repugnant example) by hockey...

As per Lowetide (not sure where he got it from), the Oilers have trade Raffi Torres to Columbus in exchange for Gilbert Brule. My take: this is a salary dump.I have talked a lot about Raffi Torres...

When Rick Olczyk was hired, not a lot of commentators on the Edmonton Oilers said much about it. Increasingly, however, he's getting difficult to ignore- and in a good way. Jim Matheson's column...

I quote from the Metro News quite a bit, now that Robin Brownlee has taken to writing a weekly piece for them. This post will site a quotation from another one of their writers, former Sportsnet...

Jim Matheson's column today is a-brimming with this and that about the Oilers. This is a good thing, given the dearth of information trickling out; it makes writing these entries every day a...