This is your TL/DR (too long, didn’t read) summary post where excerpts are taken from the best of the best when it comes to Edmonton Oilers blogs. BLH gives you his two cents on the latest posts being published in the Oilogosphere! Including those from Lowetide.ca, The Athletic, Oilersnation, The Cult of Hockey, Copper N Blue, Oil on Whyte, and more!
The latest NHL news, rumors, and speculation comes from all of the internet’s top sites like Spector’s Hockey, The Fourth Period, NHL Trade Talk, The Hockey Writers, and The Daily Goal Horn just to name a few!
If you’re short on time but want to keep up with the day’s Oilers news, you’ve come to the right place!
Give us a follow on the socials!
- Youtube: Beer League Heroes Channel
- Twitter: @beerleagueheroe
- Instagram: @beerleagueheroes
- Facebook: Beer League Heroes
Gm 10: Predators (3-5-1) vs. Oilers (6-3-0)
Who to Watch for Nashville
- #84 Tanner Jeanot – He’s twinkled the twin thrice in his last five and he’s second to only Nino Niederreiter in goals scored for Nashville.
- #9 Filip Forsberg – 33 shots in his last five games but only one goal… The ketchup has to start flowing at some point here and Rogers Place is as good as any to get out of scoring slump.
- #59 Roman Josi – He’s not scoring at the pace he did last year, but he’s still one of the league’s elite NHL dmen and very much worth your eye tonight.
Who to Watch for Edmonton
- #36 Jack Campbell – He’s getting schooled by the understudy so far… Soupy’s gotta get it going here. He’s faced the Preds three times in his career allowing eight goals with a 2-1-0 record.
- #25 Darnell Nurse – Nashville’s forwards will give him a good challenge tonight as they really are a mix of different styles. I feel like he’ll have something going with Neiderreiter and/or Jeanot though. Those two wingers are very physical. Maybe we’ll see a scrap.
- #29 Leon Draisaitl – He’s owned the Preds (stat below) in recent years with a 4-goal game and a 3-goal game plus a plethora of others with multiple tallies.
BLH’s Thoughts: There are quite a few Predators forwards who’s scoring has absolutely dried up recently and if I know the hockey gods like I do, there’s a good chance some of these guys are going to bust out of those droughts tonight. That’s simply the magic of playing that Oilers at home. They love helping other teams out like that. Also, if there’s a rookie looking for his first NHL goal, chances are he’ll get it in Edmonton.
All that said, the Oilers and Leon Draisaitl especially have f*cking roasted Nashville in their last eight matches against each other with Edmonton going 7-0-1 with Leon scoring 17 times in those games. I mean, McDavid is as hot as ever (16pts in his last 7) and Nuge has 11pts in his last six! You would like to think that this should be a scheduled win for Woody’s boys but I wouldn’t bet my neighbor’s cat on that just yet because we all know about this club’s tendency to play to the level of their opponents…
Stauffer mentioned Brad Holland and Staois were scouting Mtl and the Oilers are looking for a RHC. That would have to be Jake Evans who has an AAV of 1.7 for this year and two more. He wins over 50 pct of his draws and kills penalties
— Dennis King (@DKingBH) November 1, 2022
I think if Edmonton ends up losing, it’ll be their defense and goaltending that lets them down. However, I am very excited to see if Niemelainen is in the lineup because I would like to know who lays the first big hit, him or Jeremy Lauzon.
Trade Rumors
Oilers Now
- Bob Stauffer – “I think the Oilers have two more subtle kind of moves at some point during the year. One for a forward, one for a defenseman. The forward maybe sub-$2M and the defenseman Sub-$3M. The team that’s got the D has got to eat half the money on the D.”
- “Carson Soucy… Nudge nudge wink wink. Sub-$3M/yr defenseman from Irma, Alberta. I’m watching Seattle… If Soucy’s a + two years in a row, that has me intrigued. Even if he’s in a 3rd pairing role with Barrie if Niemelainen can’t grab it here.”
BLH’s Thoughts: Man, I’m tired of hearing about Soucy. Can’t the team aim a bit higher and who cares if he’s from Irma. Why does that make any difference? Stauffer’s a proud Albertan, so I guess I can see the narrative he’s spinning there.
Subtle moves can be made at the bottom of this club’s roster, but it needs one left-shot 2nd pairing defenseman. Somebody in the same category as Cody Ceci. Meaning, a blueliner who can sub-in on the first pair when Nurse goes down. Right now the Oilers do not have this player. Next season they might have that in Broberg but the dreamy Swede can’t stay healthy right now and it’s too big of a risk to through him into the deep end like that with the expectations where they are of this team at this point in time.
As for the soon-to-be-UFA forwards (this year or next) who might be targets for the club, Carolina’s gritty uber-grinder Jordan Martinook would be sweet and he was already on waivers this year. Bill Guerin over in Minnesota is going to need to clear some cap and I wonder if Evander Kane’s BFF Ryan Hartman would be of interest to the Oilers? Yakov Trenin of the Nashville Predators, who we’ll see tonight perhaps, is a tank and I remember his name coming up last season. Also, Blue Jacket’s winger Eric Robinson, another tank who can skate like the wind but his fancies are awful.
Speaking of awful adv. stats, Travis Boyd (ARI) is a right-shot forward who’s tallied 5pts in 8 games for the Coyotes so far this year. If 4th line centers are on Ken Holland’s “to acquire” list, should he be considered?
I don’t know, I think it’s really going to depend on who gets moved out and if I had to guess, it’ll probably be Puljujarvi. So, in that scenario, does Holland look to replace him with a similar styled player but a tad more affordable? They’re not going to replace how JP tilts the ice for anybody sub-$3M, but who knows if that’s going to be a point of concern.
Holland tends to telegraph his moves through the media. So I suppose just keep an ear out to what Stauffer says seeing as he’s the club’s mouth piece.
