At 4-0-1, the Oilers have points in every game this season. This, while Hyman, Nugent-Hopkins, Savoie, Walman, Janmark, Regula - and Andersen - are injured. Who or what is most responsible for this hot start?
The Edmonton Oilers generated $431M in 2025. 3/4 of the top market value teams are Canadian (1.TOR 2.MTL 3.NYR 4.EDM)
NHL Media Top 50 ranking Sept. 6, 2026. Bouchard ranked 37th overall in 2025.
Hutson led AHL rookie goal scoring (30) and made the AHL all rookie team in 25/26. A great camp from Hutson might make the roster decision even tougher for Bowman/Babcock.
Top Oiler Goalies to Wear 35. Jarry redemption season incoming. Drop the puck. Let’s Go Oil!
🎥Sportsnet 📷Gerry Thomas
CANADA 8 USA 1 in a statement performance from the Canadian U18s.
Just left Rogers. 🇨🇦 beat 🇫🇮 6-3 in the semi. Great game! Tons of seats left for tomorrow. $50 club seats! Watching a young DuPont and Team 🇨🇦 priceless. YEG, let’s show up for these kids. They’ve earned it! Go🇨🇦Go.
Great things ahead for 53. Let’s go Oilers. And have a Fantastic Folk Fest / Great Hlinka - Gretzky Cup weekend. Go Canada Go. 🇨🇦
Evan Bouchard: Undeniable chemistry with McDavid. 2026 top scoring D w/ 95 points. Led all NHL D in OT w/ 3 OT goals/6 points. 4th in Norris voting (top 5 twice last 3 years). #1 NHL D scoring past 4 years incl playoffs. 2nd highest D PPG NHL playoff history.
In Worlds QF in May, Ryan Lindgren left his feet for an illegal head shot to Evan Bouchard. Knocked Bouchard, Canada’s best D by a mile, out of event, risked serious injury, likely cost Canada gold. IIHF game so NHL did nothing. Who plays first shift against Lindgren?
Is it possible the Panthers just made a bad deal? They now have two players on their second line in the bottom 51% of the league in skating speed, as is evident on video for Brady. The two winger Tkachuks average almost 9 million each in cap space. More than Reinhart, Veraeghe, Bennett. Barring trades, Panthers have just $7M left with no goalies signed (and others). Was this trade more about show than substance?
Bouchard could have been lifting the Stanley Cup tonight. He stayed an Oiler despite a pending 12.5M offer sheet from Carolina. Had himself an historic season. Got shafted by Team Canada. Shafted on the Norris. But Oil Country thanks you. Next year, you, McDrai, and your Oilers gonna get the Cup.
We remember LOILTY.
Skinner: >50 games/season ‘23,’24’25.
4 Playoff SO, including 3 in 2025. 94.3% PK in 2024 playoffs.
Pickard: >20 games/season ‘24,‘25 Playoff record: 8W, 2L, incl 7 straight W’s in ‘25 in clutch moments. Ultimate glue player.
For comparison, Ryan Lindgren was -7 in his last 7 games for Seattle. Evan Bouchard was +14 in his last 7 games at Worlds, the best +- of anyone in the tourney (and for YEARS before that). Lindgren had 9 points this entire season; his last NHL point was in January. Bouchard had 95 points. Bouchard’s average point per game production is 10 times Lindgren’s for the season. The U.S. picked this guy to be their Assistant Captain. He targets best 🇨🇦D with a clear head shot, leaving his feet to do it. When will hockey start protecting its stars?