About a week ago while watching Sportscentre, TSN’s Darren Dutchyshen disagreed with the NHL’s plan to have the Boston Bruins play the Ottawa Senators this evening. He recommended that the game be cancelled rather than rescheduled because of the traumatic events in Boston this month.
In the NBA, a game between the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers was cancelled, and the game would have had seeding implications if played. However the NBA thought it was in their best interest, just to cancel the game.
However, I am very pleased to see that the game between Ottawa and Boston is played tonight. The Bruins will win the Northeast Division with a win, and the Senators will move from eighth to seventh with a victory. Not to mention, but the game has huge implications for thousands of hockey pools across the globe.
Well you can say the Edmonton Oilers are taking a deep breath today. They finally beat Niklas Backstrom in Minnesota. Backstrom, who was 17-0 against the Oilers in Minnesota prior to Friday, was pulled late in the first period, after Corey Potter put the Oilers up 3-0. Edmonton then went on to win 6-1.
The Oilers won despite being outshot 39-17 by Minnesota. Their play was simply opportunistic. They registered goals on less than one third of their total shots.
Potter and Nail Yakupov scored two goals each for the Oilers, while Jordan Eberle and Taylor Hall had a goal and two assists each.
Jeff Petry meanwhile might have had his best game as an Oiler, as he went a +5.
The Edmonton Oilers are red hot. In fact, with five straight wins, they’re the hottest team in the Northwest Division. On Tuesday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome Taylor Hall scored one goal and four assists as the Oilers beat the Calgary Flames 8-2.
After believe it or not a slow start for the Oilers after Devan Dubnyk gave up two goals on the first two Flames shots to Matt Stajan, the Oilers tied the score before the end of the period and then scored three times each in the second and third period.
The Oilers, playing with a full lineup, also got two goals each from Jordan Eberle and Nail Yakupov, and a goal from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins who also had three assists.
The Edmonton Oilers are in a playoff chase with 13 games left in the regular season. On Monday night in Edmonton, it was no April Fool’s joke. The Oilers were the more opportunistic team in defeating their provincial rival, the Calgary Flames by a score of 4-1 at Rexall Place.
Rookie defenceman Justin Schultz led the Oilers in scoring with a goal and two assists, while Taylor Hall, Ryan Jones and Nail Yakupov each had a goal and an assist in recording multi-point games themselves.
Like Saturday night in their win over Vancouver, the Oilers got off to a great start by scoring on three of their first five shots.
This week on our Yeggie-nominated show we take a look at what’s happening lately with the Edmonton Oilers (including a trade for some grit), the Chicago Blackhawks continue to take the league by storm and there’s some rock controversy at the Brier.
In the GABBYs: Anderson Silva, Swansea City, Jim Kerr, Rick DiPietro, Grambling State and Will Ohman. The Punchline this week is Ottawa’s NBL team!
This week on the show we look at the importance of a long road trip for the Edmonton Oilers & the suspension to Taylor Hall, a historic showing for Danica Patrick at the Daytona 500 and a big night for Ronda Rousey at UFC 157.
In the GABBYs: Leo Messi, the Chicago Blackhawks, Rick DiPietro, Oscar Pistorius, Matt Dalton and Susquehanna University. The Punchline this week is Carl Pavano and Francisco Liriano!
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.
The Edmonton Oilers are two games above the .500 mark in the Western Conference standings of the National Hockey League.
On Wednesday night, the Oilers improved to 4-2 with a 2-1 overtime win over the Phoenix Coyotes.
Trailing 1-0 late in the game, Nick Johnson tied the score with 19 seconds left in the third period on the powerplay after Sam Gagner took a questionable penalty of interference. It appeared that Gagner unintentionally collided with Coyotes’ veteran star Shane Doan, but the referees didn’t see it that way.
The Oilers then won it in overtime on a Nail Yakupov overtime winner on the powerplay after Antoine Vermette high-sticked Jordan Eberle.
The Edmonton Oilers have improved to 2-1 on the season following an emotional 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings.
Just moments after Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a controversial goal called off because Sam Gagner had allegedly interfered with Kings’ goaltender Jonathan Quick, first overall pick Nail Yakupov scored his biggest goal as an Oiler with four seconds left in the contest to tie the game at one.
Then in the overtime, Sam Gagner scored the winner on the powerplay when the Kings were called for too many men on the ice.
The Oilers finally scored on the powerplay after going zero for nine to that point.
Thumbs up to the Oilers penalty killers who improved immensely after their poor performance against San Jose on Tuesday.
Thumbs down to TSN for awarding Quick the player of the game with five minutes left in the third period. They should wait to name their player of the game once the game comes to a complete finish or not at all.
The Oilers will next play the Calgary Flames at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday with their next home game on Monday against the Colorado Avalanche.
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.
Nail Yakupov might be one of the up and coming faces of the Edmonton Oilers, one of the seven Canadian teams in the National Hockey League, but on Monday made some controversial comments to a Russian news website.
Yakupov called Team Canada “dirty”, based on his play against the Canadians in the past.
There are a few questions one needs to ask as a result of Yakupov’s comments. The first is how will he be treated now by Oilers fans in Edmonton, who the majority cheer for Team Canada in international events? The second is will Yakupov spark Team Canada throughout the tournament, including New Year’s Day, when Canada will face Russia in the final round robin game of Group B? Finally the third question is why would Yakupov say the comment and what are his clear examples he is basing his opinion on?
Team Canada’s best strategy heading into the World Juniors is to keep their mouth shut, something Yakupov and American forward Seth Jones (who claims the Americans are the team to beat) have been unable to do.
The Edmonton Oilers received a significant scare Thursday when it was reported that forward Nail Yakupov (yes their first overall draft pick) suffered an infection in his leg after falling off a treadmill!
That’s right. Yakupov suffered the injury according to the Edmonton Journal, while working out with conditioning coach Simon Bennett.
Yakupov now becomes the latest Oiler who is struggling to stay healthy, joining Ales Hemsky and Taylor Hall, who both went down with long term injuries last season.
Whether or not Yakupov’s injury is all that serious is still questionable but so far a definite comparison can be made to other walking wounded Oilers who have had freak accidents.
Yakupov also couldn’t stay healthy last season while with the Ontario Hockey League’s Sarnia Sting. After having an outstanding 2010-11 season where he was the OHL Rookie of the Year, Yakupov suffered a serious knee injury in the Gold medal game of the 2012 World Junior Hockey Championship in Calgary, that forced him to miss a significant amount of last season.
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame, we look at the drama leading up to the first overall pick 2012 NHL Entry Draft and a couple of big trades that happened on draft day. As well: a look ahead to game one of the CFL season, the latest on the NFL’s bounty program, some Euro 2012 controversy and a look at some boxing news.
In the GABBYs: The Miami Heat, Evgeni Malkin, R.A. Dickey, David Nalbandian, Nicklas Bendtner & Joel Peralta. The Punchline this week is LeBron James!
The Edmonton Oilers have selected Nail Yakupov with the first overall pick in the 2012 National Hockey League Entry Draft.
Was it the right move? Yes it was. Sure, the Oilers need defencemen, but there were clearly no defencemen that were ready right now that will make an immediate impact in their lineup.
Yakupov did suffer two injuries this season– a knee injury for Team Russia in the Gold medal game against Sweden in the final of the World Junior Hockey Championship in Calgary, and a concussion while playing for the Ontario Hockey League’s Sarnia Sting in March, but the bottom line his skills have been compared to Pavel Bure.
Now the job is for Steve Tambellini to go out and get a defenceman either via free agency or trade. But the bottom line is this could be a return to the 1980′s for the Oilers.
About a week ago while watching Sportscentre, TSN’s Darren Dutchyshen disagreed with the NHL’s plan to have the Boston Bruins play the Ottawa Senators this evening. He recommended that the game be cancelled rather than rescheduled because of the traumatic events in Boston this month.
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