The Edmonton Oilers recorded their second key victory of the week Thursday night at Rexall Place.
Just two nights after Nikolai Khabibulin was flawless in an impressive 3-0 shutout win over the St. Louis Blues, it was the Oilers’ offense time to shine.
Sam Gagner led the Oilers with three points (a goal and two assists) as Edmonton defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-4. However it was a third period goal by Ales Hemsky that proved to be very key. Immediately after a brilliant save by Devan Dubnyk, Hemsky stickhandled his way through Blue Jacket players to score the game winning goal with 3:08 left in the third period in a Bobby Orr like fashion.
The Edmonton Oilers received a complete sixty minute game from their hockey club Thursday night in Dallas. While the Calgary Flames received anything but a complete performance in Denver.
In the Lone Star State, Ales Hemsky led the Oilers offensive attack on the scoresheet with a goal and two assists in a 5-1 win over the Dallas Stars.
Edmonton got off to a great start where they took a 2-0 lead after the first period on two even strength goals, a category the Oilers have struggled in mightily this year. The Oilers then got a lucky bounce in the second period when Jeff Petry shot the puck from a bad angle and went off of Trevor Daley’s stick and past Kari Lehtonen.
The Oilers took a 3-0 lead and ended the Oilers’ six game losing streak in Dallas.
The Edmonton Oilers had a record performance Saturday night in a 6-4 win over the Colorado Avalanche.
The Oilers recorded a club record 56 shots on goal against the Avalanche, breaking a record of 55 shots set on March 21, 1986. The Oilers were once down 3-0 and 4-1 in the game, but marched back scoring five unanswered goals.
If memory serves me right there was a remarkable comeback by the Oilers that night in 1986 as well. Minnesota was once up 4-1, I believe, before the Oilers marched back.
Taylor Hall had eight scoring chances, while Jordan Eberle had seven. According to Kevin Weekes of Hockey Night in Canada, the Oilers had 83 shots during the game.
This week on 15MOF we recap a very interesting Super Bowl between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, we discuss the opening weeks of the NHL season and how the Edmonton Oilers are looking and we answer the question: who owns the Phoenix Coyotes?
In the GABBYs: Vincent Lecavalier, David Beckham, the NFL, Ottawa’s CFL team, PED’s and pro sports blackouts. The Punchline this week is OHL ref Joe Monette.
Heading into Monday’s game against the Colorado Avalanche, Edmonton Oilers’ head coach Ralph Krueger stressed the importance of the Oilers improving while even strength. To begin the season, the Oilers only scored four even strength goals in four games.
Well on Monday night in Edmonton, you can now make that statistic four even strength goals in five games, but I don’t think Krueger will mind too much.
The reason is that the Oilers still beat the Avalanche 4-1 and in the process scored four powerplay goals. Even though the Oilers didn’t score on even strength, they generated the necessary opportunities to put themselves into the position to have a man advantage.
We haven’t seen much resiliency and patience from the Edmonton Oilers in recent years, but give Ralph Krueger credit Sunday night in Vancouver.
The Oilers were once down 2-0 to the Vancouver Canucks last night, but simply didn’t panic. They kept on going and got timely goals from Jordan Eberle and Ales Hemsky in a 3-2 shootout win.
Sure, there were defensive breakdowns that led to the two Vancouver goals from Alexander Edler and Zack Kassian, but Oilers goaltender Devan Dubnyk is starting to show great maturity in between the pipes. Dubnyk was sensational in the shootout and just seems more confident in his fourth year with the Oilers.
The Edmonton Oilers enter the 2012-13 National Hockey League regular season with a huge question mark.
Just how will good will they be? Do they have the skill to be an elite franchise like Sports Illustrated is projecting? Did General Manager Steve Tambellini do enough in the off-season to help the young guns? Is the core of the team capable to play a complete 48 game schedule without getting injured? Is Devan Dubnyk the answer in net and is he capable of repeating the brilliance he showed at the Spengler Cup? Can Ales Hemsky return to his old self and provide offensive production on the Oilers second line? What do you think of Nail Yakupov? Will the lack of getting an arena deal done put a cloud over the excitement of the team? Is the right nucleus of young talent in Edmonton there to contend for a playoff spot? More questions than answers. Let us know what you think.
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame we look into the Edmonton Oilers parting ways with their head coach (and what needs to change for the Oil to turn things around), we check out the latest NFL bounty news, and we run down the problem with umpires in the MLB.
In the GABBYs: Bikini hockey, Jamaican hockey, Matt Bonner, Coors Field, Ozzie Guillen & Stephen Strasburg. The Punchline this week is Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Jason Peters!
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Edmonton Oilers Saturday afternoon at the Pepsi Center, if one just had a look at the highlights they would have noticed that the Oilers quite possibly got robbed.
In the third period, with the game 2-1 Colorado, it appeared Ales Hemsky had scored the game-tying goal. But the goal was disallowed because Sam Gagner was in the crease and prevented Semyon Varlamov from getting to the opposite end of the net. The replay clearly showed that Varlamov would not have been able to make the save regardless if Gagner was in the crease or not.
Moments later, Taylor Hall tied the game and gave the Oilers a point, before they lost it 3-2 in a shootout.
With the win, the Avalanche move into eighth place in the Western Conference, one point up on the San Jose Sharks, but the Sharks have three games in hand. The Oilers next game is Monday at home to San Jose.
This week on a special NHL Trade Deadline edition of 15 Minutes of Fame, we try to pick out the winners and the losers of the big day and do our best to analyze the one trade pulled off by the Edmonton Oilers. We also look at the biggest pre-deadline trade and non-trade, which was Jeff Carter to the LA Kings and Ales Hemsky re-upping with the Oil.
In the GABBYs: Chicago Cubs fans, CC Sabathia, Jeremy Lin, Greg Oden, Rajon Rondo & Tommi Virtanen. The Punchline this week is MMA fighter Dan Lariviere!
This is a big weekend in Alberta curling. Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin will try to win Alberta’s first Canadian Women’s Curling Championship on Alberta soil in Red Deer. She has the capability and overall team skill. Nedohin just has to put it together and notch three victories against Team Quebec, Team Manitoba and Team British Columbia.
A major reason for Alberta’s success this week has been the solid play of their overall team. Lead Laine Peters was second to Manitoba’s Dawn Askin in overall shooting percentage (87%). Alberta’s Jessica Mair was second among seconds at 83% and Alberta’s Beth Iskiw was second among thirds at 84%.
The Edmonton Oilers opened their pocketbook on Friday and surprisingly re-signed winger Ales Hemsky to a two year deal worth $10 million.
The news comes as a significant surprise to many in the hockey world because Hemsky has significantly underperformed this season. He only has five goals and 21 assists and is a lousy -14.
Also at only 80 shots on goal he also rarely shoots the puck. But Hemsky is continuing to see significant ice time as a top six forward. It appears the Oilers haven’t given up on the prize sensation just yet.
But one could argue that his best days are behind him. It is unlikely in my opinion, that he will return to the offensive prowess he showed six years ago when he notched 77 points in 81 games, and led the Oilers in assists and points.
But now it is time for Hemsky to prove GM Steve Tambellini right. Success will be judged not necessarily by points this time, but if he can play an integral leadership role and help the Oilers get to a place where Oiler fans what them to be– the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
It is nice to see the Edmonton Oilers show up to play hockey that reminds fans of the 1980′s once in a while.
On Tuesday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, they saw just that. Jordan Eberle and Sam Gagner each notched a goal and two assists as Edmonton defeated Calgary 6-1.
The Oilers completely dominated the second period, outshooting Calgary 17-4 and 4-0 on the scoreboard. Other Oiler goal scorers were Ales Hemsky, Eric Belanger, Taylor Hall and Ryan Smyth. One could make the argument that Tuesday’s game was the Oilers most complete effort of the entire season.
If the Flames end up missing the playoffs, they can circle February 21 on their calendar as the major reason why. The Flames also got no help from the out of town scoreboard as Phoenix defeated Los Angeles 5-4 in overtime.
Calgary is currently one point back of the Kings for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Two significant streaks also came to an end. It was the first time in ten games the Oilers beat the Flames and the first time in nine games the Flames lost in regulation.
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame we’re discussing some potential trades from around the NHL, Alex Ovechkin’s work ethic and news that former Oiler Mike Comrie is calling it a career. As well, we look at what the Edmonton Eskimos did in the opening days of CFL free agency, what LeBron James said about returning to Cleveland and the circus that surrounded the recent fight between Vitali Klitschko and Dereck Chisora.
In the GABBYs: Teemu Selanne, the Detroit Red Wings, Brad Marchand, the Rochester Knighthawks, Roburt Sallie and Brazilian soccer club XV de Jau. The Punchline this week is the “Piggyback Bandit,” Sherwin Shayegan.
The Edmonton Oilers recorded their second key victory of the week Thursday night at Rexall Place.
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