Home teams went 7-1 in game ones of the first round. And so far, home teams are 3-3 in game twos with Dallas and Edmonton playing tonight. Prior to Monday’s victory, the Oilers were 1-8 in game ones during the Connor McDavid era.
Through the first two days of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the home team has won every game. According to Sportsnet Stats, this is postseason history that the home team has gone unbeaten in the first six Game 1s played in the opening round of the NHL Playoffs.
This time last year, I declared two things in an article at Oilersnation. The first was that I was going to do regular articles previewing the Edmonton Oilers playoff series with a focus on the tactics that would be deployed.
It’s Round 1, Part 3, between the Edmonton Oilers and the Los Angeles Kings. With the Vegas Golden Knights losing to the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night
What a long, strange trip it’s been. On Thursday night, part of that trip ended for the Edmonton Oilers, who finished off their regular season with a 5-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche.
The Edmonton Oilers take on the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night, both team’s final game of the 2023-24 regular season. For the Oilers, this will be their last chance to rest their major stars before taking on either the Vegas Golden Knights or Los Angeles Kings.
There were no jerseys on the ice, and no outraged fans in the stands. Instead, there were 4,600 fans crowding inside Mullett Arena Tuesday night saying goodbye to their Arizona Coyotes, as they beat the Oilers 5-2. Sean Durzi will go down as the last to score for the franchise, sealing the deal with an empty-net goal.
The Edmonton Oilers will be without Darnell Nurse, Cody Ceci, and Evander Kane as they help close out the Arizona Coyotes’ tenure in the desert. Kane will miss his second straight game due to maintenance purposes, and now Nurse and Ceci will join him.
In a season filled with on-ice heroics and off-ice impact, Darnell Nurse stands tall as the Edmonton Oilers’ nominee for the King Clancy Memorial Award.
There are 26 games remaining in the NHL season. Thirteen teams will play one game before the season ends on Thursday night, 18 teams play twice, and the Edmonton Oilers are the only team with three games in the final four days.
The Edmonton Oilers are adding another feat to their list of accomplishments this season. During Friday’s Arizona Coyotes matchup, Darnell Nurse scored his 10th of the season.
The 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs are exactly one week away. The Edmonton Oilers currently sit second in the Pacific Division, holding a record of 48-24-6.
Sometimes, there are bigger things at hand. For the now Arizona Coyotes, soon-to-be-called Utah what-cha-ma-call-its, relocation looms. For the Edmonton still-to-be-called Oilers, it’s a Saturday night date with the Vancouver Canucks that could determine the winner of the Pacific Division.
There has been much debate regarding the play of Darnell Nurse and Cody Ceci this season. The Edmonton Oilers have had relatively consistent success with their other two defensive pairs, but Nurse and Ceci have been boom or bust over various stretches.
The McDavid-less Oilers took on the Vegas Golden Knights last night at Rogers Place with the opportunity to pull themselves within a single point of locking in home-ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs.
The Edmonton Oilers’ season isn’t over due to one bad loss in Dallas. They aren’t destined for a first-round exit. However, Wednesday’s loss was a stark reminder of how quickly things can unravel if the Oilers aren’t focused.
I wrote it in the GDB, and I’ll say it again here: I despise the Dallas Stars. They’re one of those teams that hurt me early in my Oilers fandom, and I will never forget all of those seasons that ended earlier than we would have liked because the Stars knocked Edmonton out of the playoffs.
When your top guns aren’t running right for a game, it’s always nice to have young talent throughout your roster to help supplement things and secure another victory as the playoffs near.
Ask any Oilers fan these days who their most hated rivals are, and you might be surprised at the answer. Gone are the days where the first mention would be the Calgary Flames, or the Vancouver Canucks.
The Edmonton Oilers and LA Kings look destined for a third consecutive playoff matchup. — The Oilers are eight points back of first-place Vancouver, with two games in hand, but it is really nine points as the Canucks have six more regulation wins.
There probably hasn’t been more of a lightning rod on the Edmonton Oilers in recent years than Darnell Nurse. The veteran blueliner often faces the ire of Oilers fans, whose frustration over his defensive mistakes is only aggravated by his eight-year contract with an annual cap hit of $9.25 million.
We have two games tonight in the NHL, as the Maple Leafs look to stave off elimination at home and the Oilers-Golden Knights head back to Vegas for a pivotal fifth game.
The Vegas Golden Knights and Edmonton Oilers will both be without a key defenseman for Friday's pivotal Game 5 after the NHL handed down a pair of suspensions on Thursday.
The Edmonton Oilers will be without defenseman Darnell Nurse for Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal playoff series against the Vegas Golden Knights as he serves a one-game suspension for instigating a fight.
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