It’s Not An Injury Bug, It’s Injury Ebola
* * * Sam Gagner lost for season due to freak accident * * * Turns out “42″ is not just the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it’s also the answer to the key question, “How many points will...
View ArticleSam Gagner out “week to week” with ankle sprain
… as confirmed by the Oilers in this tweet a few minutes ago. Tough luck for Gagner, whose 2010-11 season came to a premature conclusion courtesy a freak injury inflicted by Ryan Jones’ skate. Just...
View ArticleChorney, Teubert recalled to fill depleted blueline
Omark sidelined with ankle injury suffered in AHL * * * Taylor Chorney getting another chance with the Oilers.* * * With the injury bug once again doing its evil rounds, the Edmonton Oilers have...
View ArticleNugent-Hopkins returns to Edmonton to see team doctors
* * * Today comes gloomy but not-unexpected news from the Edmonton Oilers, who tweeted: In what looked like a nothing play, RNH caught a rut in United Center on Monday and crashed awkwardly into the...
View ArticleRNH to miss January
Star rookie Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has gotten the word from Edmonton Oilers’ team doctors, and the news is not good, but not as bad as it could be either. Here’s the word via Oilers’ official Twitter...
View ArticleGilbert, Eberle, RNH all out until All-Star break – how will Oilers cope?
Badly. Very badly. Very @#$%^&* badly. OK, those first three attempts won’t quite cut it as a cutting-edge piece analyzing Edmonton Oilers’ immediate future. That said, it’s hard for an Oilers fan...
View ArticleHall suffers freak injury in pre-game warm-up
Edmonton Oilers run of freak injuries to star players added another scary chapter on Tuesday, as Taylor Hall sustained a skate cut to his face during the pre-game warmup in Columbus. The injury was...
View ArticleCan Edmonton Oilers’ defence corps get past the injury bug?
It’s tough playing defence in the National Hockey League. Tough to learn, tough to survive. Fans of the Edmonton Oilers know all too well of what I speak, having watched their team’s defence corps...
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