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Game #4 – Oilers vs. Hawks Spotlight: Now We’ll Find Out Where Ken Holland Was Born

Sam Fels October 14, 2019 0

Due to the decade-plus-long streak of Red Wings exceptionalism, it was just a given that Ken Holland was a genius who prolonged the mid-90s dominance constructed by Jimmy Devellano by unearthing gems like Nicklas Lidstrom and Niklas Kronwall and Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. And yeah,

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You Ain’t Shane, You Ain’t Mook – ’19-’20 NHL Team Previews: Edmonton Oilers

Sam Fels September 25, 2019 0

And now this disaster. I was thinking earlier this morning that there really isn’t a parallel to the Oilers wasting one of the best players of all-time for years, but of course there is. It’s the Anaheim Angels. Mike Trout appeared in the playoffs once, and his team has been weighed down by incredibly bad […]

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Game #54 – Hawks vs. Oilers Preview/Postcard Party: And Now Here’s Some Tripe

Sam Fels February 5, 2019 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Hawks 20-24-9   Oilers 23-24-5 PUCK DROP: 8pm TV: WGN EdMo Dee: Oilers Nation The Hawks conclude this post-break, three-game road trip in the NHL’s “Beyond The Wall,” the hellscape that is Edmonton, Alberta (I assume). And when I say hellscape, I really mean the team that you’ll find there. Though a city that […]

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Game #54 – Hawks vs. Oilers Q&A: Matt Henderson From Oilers Nation

Sam Fels February 5, 2019 0

Matt Henderson is one of the writers at Oilersnation.com. You can follow him on Twitter @archaeologuy.  So the Oilers finally got around to firing Peter Chiarelli. Is there genuine hope now? Or is the fear he may have broken this thing beyond repair? What can a new GM conceivably do immediately? Hope is hard to […]

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Game #12 – Oilers vs. Hawks Preview – Just A Man

Matt McClure October 28, 2018 0

 vs  Game Time: 5:00PM TV/Radio: WGN Ch. 9, NHL Network, Sportsnet 1, WGN-AM 720 53rd Parallel: Copper & Blue, Oilers Nation It’s a slightly earlier start tonight on West Madison to accomodate the western Canadian audiences as the Hawks welcome Connor McDavid and his merry band of pranksters into the UC for their only visit of the […]

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Game #12 – Oilers vs. Hawks Q&A: A Strange Form Of Existence We Know As SL

Sam Fels October 28, 2018 0

That’s all we can say. We had to go through several layers of security to get to him, and then found ourselves in a strange location we would not be able to identify. But he seemed to know what he was talking about, so we went with it. Follow him on Twitter @thescottlewis. With all […]

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You Share The Same Fate As The People You Hate – ’18-’19 Team Previews: Edmonton Oilers

Sam Fels September 25, 2018 0

I usually don’t get into the whaling about wasting the career of a generational talent. Connor McDavid will hardly be the first truly great player to not get to play in too many games that matter. This list could go forever. Off the top of my head: Dan Marino, Don Mattingly, Joey Votto, and Mike […]

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Well Pilgrim, Not Until You Eat The Peanuts Outta My… – FFUD’s ’17-’18 Player Reviews – Connor Murphy Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Our Large Irish Son

John Pullega April 20, 2018 0

When the Hawks brought Connor Murphy in, he was the presumptive favorite to replace the puck-pocked husk of what was once Niklas Hjalmarsson. And as the season went on, and the Hawks found their heads deeper and deeper in the toilet, the narrative began to range from “the Hawks will need a Top 4 defenseman […]

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Game #41 – Oilers vs. Hawks Preview/Tire Rotation: You Ain’t Special, So Who You Foolin’?

Sam Fels January 7, 2018 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Oilers 18-21-3    Hawks 19-15-6 PUCK DROP: 2pm TV: WGN ED-WOOD-TON: OilersNation.com I don’t know who sanctioned a 2pm start, but they’re going to pay. Neither of these teams wants to be out during daylight hours right now. Hell, neither probably wants to be in public. Two teams that had designs on being […]

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Game #41 – Oilers vs. Hawks: Q&A With Bagged Milk From OilersNation

Sam Fels January 7, 2018 0

BaggedMilk is one of the freaks, very cold freaks, at OilersNation.com. Follow him on Twitter @SBMBaggedMilk. We asked him the same questions as we asked Scott Lewis last week.  Let’s start with something nice and simple. Why do the Oilers blow chunks? How much time do you have? The biggest problem (and it’s not close) is that […]