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Team Sloppy Seconds - Final

Team sloppy seconds is complete except for a backup goaltender.  After the initial wave of free agent signings in July, I looked at the remaining unrestricted free agents and cobbled together a c...

Update on Remaining UFA's - Catching Up On Sloppy Seconds

After the initial wave of free agent signings in July, I looked at the remaining unrestricted free agents and cobbled together a competitive team with those leftovers. With training camp open everywhe...

Burke Gallimore

Guy Flaming has an absolutely first-rate update on Oilers’ prospects up at his site - one I strongly recommend reading. Among the items mentioned by Flaming is an interesting Oilers rookie cam...

Blair Betts and Correcting Myths (Updated)

In this morning's Chatham Daily News, Edmonton Sun writer Derek Van Diest explores the plight of Blair Betts, and makes this comment: Having struggled to kill penalties and with no one outside...

Rangers Sign Vaclav Prospal

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Mike Grier Signs With Buffalo

It's been a while since Mike Grier was an Edmonton Oiler; the Oilers sent him to Washington at the dawn of 2002 for draft picks (one was dealt to the Islanders, the other became Zack Stortini), but he...

Former Oilers Josh Green, Drew Bannister Find New Homes

<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Josh Green #12 / Center / Anaheim Ducks Height: 6-4 Weight: 225 Born: Nov 16, 1977 Maybe I’m the only one who remembers these two. Josh Green was proje...

Too Many Bodies

The last few years Oilers fans have had some experience with the 50-contract limit.  According to the CBA, any team in the NHL may have no more than fifty players signed to an NHL contract at any...

Oilers Potpourri, Headlined by Ladislav Smid

Jim Matheson did up another one of those columns he is wont to do; quick hits on an assortment of Oilers’ news. Some of it is new information, and it’s all at the bottom of his Reddox/Potu...

Testing Ken Holland

Last year, Tyler over at mc79hockey.com included a quote by Red Wings GM Ken Holland in an article he wrote about the goaltending market: My feeling is if you can get one of the five or six be...


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