entry draft ’17

This blog will be following the 2016 Oilers draft this season, it’ll be five years gone afterward and we’ll make the…

I believe you should wait five years before making the call on a prospect, because they rarely develop in a straight…

My list didn’t love the Oilers 2017 draft, but the selections of Kailer Yamamoto and Ostap Safin were home runs on…

Starting in 2015, I began ranking 120 players per draft based on math and a few other things I believed. Beginning…

Since arriving as general manager, Peter Chiarelli has drafted 27 players, 12 of them (44 percent) blue. Edmonton’s head of procurement…

The first time I ever thought to question a general manager over a draft was 1973. Sam Pollock drafted Bob Gainey—who…

The Edmonton Oilers hired Keith Gretzky on August 2, 2016. The first time I heard anything about it came from my…

The World Juniors get underway later today in Buffalo, with the big early game featuring Canada versus Finland. The Oilers have…

On the day he signed a contract with the Edmonton Oilers, Andrej Sekera stood stone alone on the depth chart. Despite…

The day after Edmonton drafted Connor McDavid, the organization spent four of five selections on defensemen. It was a deep draft…