Fear not Oilers fans, all of your questions about what will happen this off-season are about to be answered. Reader beware: I have no inside information… I’m just a fan with an opinion and a keyboard taking a stab at what the roster will look like in October. I’m likely going to be wrong with…Continue Reading “What the Oilers Roster WILL Look Like in 2019-20”
We know the Stanley Cup will be awarded on Wednesday night. Once that is done, the fun leading up to the draft begins. I’ve been doing a 2019 Oilers Off-Season Game Plan series since April. I’ve talked about some of the decisions that Holland will be facing this summer, and I’ve talked about potential trade,…Continue Reading “What the Oilers Roster SHOULD Look Like in 2019-20”
There has been a lot of speculation that this summer could mark the return of the offer sheet to the NHL landscape. Players are peaking at earlier and earlier ages, and young RFA stars are getting PAID as a result. There are quite a few young stars that are RFAs this summer including names like…Continue Reading “Offer Sheet Targets for the Oilers”
Busy times lie ahead for NHL teams. The Stanley Cup Finals are underway, which means that there is about 2 weeks left in the season. The draft is less than a month away. That also means that the negotiation period for UFAs is less than a month away. Last week, I wrote about trade targets…Continue Reading “UFA Targets”
Dave Tippett is the new coach of the Edmonton Oilers. Tippett was previously the head coach in Dallas from 2002-2009, and in Phoenix/Arizona from 2009-2017. He guided the Stars and the Coyotes to one Western Conference Final each. Tippett got to guide the Stars as the key players from their Stanley Cup in 1999 neared…Continue Reading “Tippett Hiring”
Last week, I wrote about some of the pieces that I think the Oilers could afford to give up in a potential trade. The natural follow-up to that article would be for me to look at which players that the Oilers could be targeting this summer. The Oilers need wingers. They need at least one…Continue Reading “2019 Trade Targets”
Ken Holland has given me zero reason to think that he will come in and blow the roster up in advance of next season, but we all know that there will be some changes to the roster this summer. The Oilers’ needs are pretty clear. They need another sure-fire top 6 forward or two, they…Continue Reading “Trade Chips: Which Assets Could the Oilers Afford to Part With?”
The Oilers made what we already knew official today by announcing that Ken Holland is the new GM of the Edmonton Oilers. The thing that we didn’t know is that he is also going to be the President of Hockey Operations. Holland has been given full autonomy of the hockey operations department. Owner Daryl Katz…Continue Reading “Ken Holland Press Conference”
After Chiarelli was fired, I wrote an article about Chiarelli’s tenure with the Oilers. At the end of the article, I speculated on who the possible GM candidates might have been. Mark Hunter was the first name that I came up with; but I have to give credit to my friend Zach, who is a…Continue Reading “Deep Dive: Ken Holland”
The biggest challenge for the new GM this summer will be the Oilers’ cap situation. The Oilers went over the cap last season due to the injury to Andrej Sekera. The Oilers had one of the highest payrolls in the league last season, and they still failed to make the playoffs. The cap situation in…Continue Reading “Creating Cap Space WITHOUT Moving Big Contracts”