Jamie Barber For the last seven years the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets have met in Penticton for the annual Young Start Tournament. Players who have played less than 100 pro games in each organization are eligible to attend. This leads to large age differences, and thus differences in expectations between [...]
Coming off a surprising season that found the Edmonton Oilers place second in the Pacific division, and have them make it to the second round of the playoffs, the young Oilers squad is ready to make a run again in the upcoming season. With the likes of elite talent such as Connor McDavid and Leon [...]
Hockey is back! The World Cup is dominating hockey headlines and the annual rookie tournaments which usually have no competition this time of year are an afterthought. There are some prospects playing in the World Cup and Hayden Soboleski looked at that in his Prospects Ramblings on Sunday. There are Rookie Tournaments across North America [...]
For the Oilers, the best move they made was simply not making a move at all. For days, weeks and months there were rumours swirling around a potential trade for a RHD, and there was good reason to believe the Oilers may have been willing to part with the fourth overall selection. Despite the [...]
