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Tampa Bay Lightning at Boston Bruins: Game 7 Open Thread

For those of you watching tonight's Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 matchup between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins, here is your open thread. For all the latest on the Lightning, there is no better place than Raw Charge, the SBNation home of the Bolts. Or, catch up on the Bruins at...

NHL News: Free Agency Day One Open Thread

Time to go shopping! We will use this thread for any NHL deals that go down today, feel free to talk about them here. Any Ranger deals that go down will be posted on the main page, just like any other Ranger news. Any Free Agent signings I will update in this window, and you guys can discuss them...

It's Hard to Write When Nothing's Happening

There are so many things that stand out from the Finals run in 2006. Individual players in individual moments.Fernando Pisani, of course, came out of nowhere to become a cult hero, and the biggest goal of his fourteen was that overtime, shorthanded game winner. I still remember that feeling in the...

2008 Entry Draft Bric-a-brac

There is a ton of good stuff available on the upcoming NHL Entry Draft, and, as usual, Lowetide has been doing a pretty good job of collecting the things most of interest to Oilers fans. Another good thing for any Oilers fan to take a look at is the rather incredible draft review over at YKOil's...

Another Stop for Dwayne Roloson?

Bruce Garrioch suggests that two main possibilities for the Senators backup job are former Oiler Ty Conklin and current Oiler Dwayne Roloson. Here's the quote: Now that goaltender Ray Emery is officially gone after clearing waivers yesterday, Murray is expected to bring in a goalie to stand behind...

Roloson Update

Yesterday, I quoted a Bruce Garrioch article which suggested that Dwayne Roloson might be a candidate to backup Martin Gerber in Ottawa. Today, Jim Matheson talks about the lieklihood of Roloson going to Ottawa:The Ottawa Senators are looking for another goaltender after buying out Ray Emery on...

MacT and the Goalies

The other day, David Staples had a post up on his weblog based on the NHL advertising theme "Is This the Year?". One of the things that he wrote I took as a bit of a personal challenge:"Is this the year one of the prominent Oilers bloggers says even one word of criticism about MacT?"That question...

Redundancy

In 2007-08, the Edmonton Oilers employed a two-goaltender system for the third time in the MacTavish/Lowe era, and for the second time, it was a decision forced on the team by a starter's regression (Roloson, Salo in 2003-04) and a better than expected performance by the back-up (Garon, Conklin in...

Line Matchups: Five Games, One Article

In VancouverThe Oilers actually outscored Vancouver 3-2 at even strength, but their penalty kill allowed four powerplay goals against in a 6-3 loss. Here are the even-strength lineups:Edmonton’s Lines:Nilsson – Horcoff - HemskyPenner/Brodziak – Cogliano – GagnerMoreau – Pouliot –...

League Goaltending Situation

Given that the Edmonton Oilers are currently holding three goaltenders on their NHL roster, I thought it might be of interest to look around the league and see which teams could be buying or selling goaltenders.Atlanta - The Thrashers starting netminder is injury-prone Kari Lehtonen. Lehtonen was...


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