Pregame Notes: The Oilers have lost 8 straight games coming into this one. It appears that the injury list adds another player tonight as Shawn Horcoff is battling the flu as he has the last couple of games and will not play. Robert Nilsson was called up on an emergency basis and he will be [...]

Pregame Notes: The Oiler’s California Dream (Nightmare) ends tonight in Los Angeles. The Oilers come into this game with 7 losses in a row, having scored only 5 goals in that stretch and being shut out 3 times. In fact the Oilers have only won 2 of their last 13 games. It looks like again [...]

Here are my thoughts and recollections for the past week:

We spent today with a friend of ours up from Ontario. We took her around the city and took some pictures down at the Snowking Winter Festival on Great Slave Lake. We also visited the Gallery of the Midnight Sun where we discovered a great place [...]

Pregame Notes: The Oilers will again go tonight with only 5 defensemen and 17 skaters total. The top 2 scorers against the Sharks this season for the Oilers are no longer with the team. Smyth with 5 points and Bergeron with 3 were traded. The next 3 highest point getters against the Sharks this year are [...]

Pregame Notes: The Edmonton Roadrunners…I mean Oilers start the game with their 11 defenseman of the year in the line-up. Bryan Young makes his debut tonight. With the injuries to Hejda and Staios on Wednesday night Toby Petersen will be forced to play on the defense tonight. 9 of the Oilers in the line-up tonight played [...]

Pregame Notes: The last time these 2 teams met was January, 2004. Since then the Lightning have won the Stanley Cup and the Oilers made it to game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. Kyle Brodziak was recalled after Petr Nedved was placed on the IR. It is Brodziak’s first shot with the big team this [...]

$100,000 is all Ryan Smyth had to give up to still be an Oiler.

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” – Erich Fromm ( (1900–1980), Internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. Escape from Freedom, ch. 4 (1941).

Hopefully the [...]

Here are my thoughts and recollections for the past week:

-42°C this morning. 0.2° from tying a record for the coldest temperature ever on this day in Yellowknife.
We drove to Dettah this morning on the ice road. It was pleasant but cold. The trip out on the ice road is 6km and the return trip [...]

Postgame Notes: A Battle of Alberta game and if the Oilers can’t get up for this one then Kevin needs to make some major changes this summer. I am sure most fans right now are of the opinion that the Oilers can lose 15 of the last 17 games as long as they win the [...]

Pregame Notes: For the Oiler fans who haven’t given up on making the playoffs, tonight is the first game of the rest of the season. Lose tonight and the Oilers can kiss the season goodbye and along with it the hopes of making the playoffs. 10 points back with 4 games against the Wild, they [...]