By GENE PRINCIPE
Sportsnet.ca
The flu bug continues to work through the Edmonton Oilers lockerrom, literally and figuratively, with the latest victim being Shawn Horcoff.
While the Oilers practiced the centreman was sent to his room? not for being bad but for feeling bad.
“He came to the rink and the medical staff just sent him back to the hotel,” Oilers head coach Pat Quinn said. “There was no sense in him practicing Continue reading ‘Flu bug continues to bite Oilers dressing room’
EDMONTON — Veteran forward Mike Comrie is returning to Edmonton.
The Oilers have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with the 28-year-old centre.
Comrie was drafted by Edmonton in 1999 and played for the Oilers from 2000 to 2003.
He has also had stops in Philadelphia, Phoenix, the New York Islanders and Ottawa.
He has 154 goals and 184 assists in 525 career games.
Schremp, the Oilers second choice, 25th overall, in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, spent the majority of last season with the Springfield Falcons of the American Hockey League. Appearing in 69 games for the Oilers??? top affiliate, he scored seven goals and 35 assists for 42 points.
Schremp saw action in four games for the Oilers last season collecting three assists, including scoring his first NHL point.
The 23-year-old New York Continue reading ‘Oilers re-sign Schremp to 1-yr deal’
NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils have acquired forward Tim Sestito from Edmonton in exchange for a 2010 conditional draft pick and signed free agent goaltender Yann Danis.
The team announced both deals on Friday without providing details.
The 24-year-old Sestito made his NHL debut with the Oilers last season, playing in one game and recording a shot on goal. He spent most of the season with Springfield of the AHL.
NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils have acquired forward Tim Sestito from Edmonton in exchange for a 2010 conditional draft pick and signed free agent goaltender Yann Danis.
The team announced both deals on Friday without providing details.
The 24-year-old Sestito made his NHL debut with the Oilers last season, playing in one game and recording a shot on goal. He spent most of the season with Springfield of the AHL.
Continue reading ‘Devils get F Sestito from Oilers’
By MARK SPECTOR
Sportsnet.ca
???We???re trying to better our hockey club,??? Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini said Friday afternoon outside the team???s Edmonton offices. ???It???s obvious we have shown an interest … but this is up to (Senators GM) Bryan Murray and Dany Heatley.???
Tambellini was asked what so many Oilers fans are wondering: Why are the Oilers still in pursuit, after Heatley Continue reading ‘Oilers still want disgruntled Heatley’
PITTSBURGH — Gretzky, Crosby. Messier, Malkin. Oilers, Penguins?
The 1983 Edmonton Oilers, led by the youthful Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier, were widely hailed as hockey’s team of the future. Cast against the three-time defending champion New York Islanders in the Stanley Cup finals, they looked inexperienced and overmatched in the first two games and wound up being swept.
A year later, a transition from old to new took Continue reading ‘Pens following in Oilers footsteps?’
KLOTEN, Switzerland — Jaromir Jagr can see himself in an Edmonton Oilers jersey someday.
While the 37-year-old plans to play out the final year of his contract with Avangard Omsk of the Continental Hockey League next season, he hasn’t ruled out a return to the NHL in the future.
And if he does decide to go back to North America, he’d love to play for the team that offered him a free-agent contract last summer and made inquiries Continue reading ‘Oilers top Jagr list for NHL return’
By MARK SPECTOR
Sportsnet.ca
“We???re making a change a far as our head coach,” Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini told a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday, the opening day of a National Hockey League playoff tournament that the Oilers are once again not part of.
“We need a new voice, a new start, new expectations, a new discipline. It???s time to look forward here,” he continued. “This is the right Continue reading ‘MacTavish done as Oilers coach’
EDMONTON — This season was supposed to be different, but the Edmonton Oilers are once again on the outside of the Western Conference playoff picture looking in with time and games running out.
During the preseason, coach Craig MacTavish not only suggested the Oilers would be in the post-season mix after two years out but would contend for the Northwest Division title. On Wednesday, Edmonton stood 11th in the Western Conference, three Continue reading ‘Oilers playoff hopes fading’
