Sam Gagner inks two-year deal with the Oilers
Sam Gagner received his just deserves today in accepting a 2 year deal worth $4.55 million dollars. Gagner, son of ex-Nhler Dave Gagner, had a decent season last year tallying 15 goals and 26 assists for 41 points matching his production from the 2008/2009 season albeit playing 8 less games.
Categories: Edmonton Oilers Tags: Andrew Cogliano, David Perron, Edmonton Oilers, James van Riemsdyk, Jonathan Toews, Kyle Turris, London Knights, Patrick Kane, Sam Gagner, Shawn Horcoff, Steve Tambellini, Taylor Hall
Player Projection: Sam Gagner
NHLHS Edmonton Oilers Correspondent Trent Kondo presents his player projection story. This upcoming season, Trent feels Gagner will have a breakout season for Edmonton.
The additions of Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson, Jordan Eberle and the highly touted #1 overall pick Taylor Hall one would expect Sam Gagner to have a break out year in his upcoming 4th NHL season.
Categories: Edmonton Oilers, NHLHS Features Tags: Ales Hemsky, David Perron, Dustin Penner, Edmonton Oilers, James van Riemsdyk, Jim Vandermeer, Jordan Eberle, Kurtis Foster, Kyle Turris, Ladislav Smid, Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson, Nikolai Khabibulin, Ryan Whitney, Sam Gagner, Shawn Horcoff, Taylor Chorney, Taylor Hall
The Oilers Season in a Nutshell
The 2009-10 regular season for the Edmonton Oilers was simply a season that the entire Oiler Nation would love to put behind them.
Many NHL prognosticators predicted a post season berth for the Oilers with their off-season moves and coaching staff adjustments, bringing in players like Nikolai Khabibulin to solidify the goaltending.
The team also brought in a past proven winner plus offensive spark plug and home town boy Mike Comrie. The additions of legendary coach Pat Quinn and Tom Renney as his assistant also looked like a pure genius move by G.M. Steve Tambellini.
Right winger Ales Hemsky led a cast of what seemed to be a decent forward depth squad with player’s such as Dustin Penner, Sam Gagner, Shawn Horcoff and Patrick O’Sullivan and what looked to be a solid back end with Sheldon Souray, Lubomir Visnovsky, Tom Gilbert, and Denis Grebeshkov.
Categories: Around the League, By Teams, Edmonton Oilers Tags: Aaron Johnson, Ales Hemsky, Andrew Cogliano, Edmonton Oilers, Fernando Pisani, Gilbert Brule, Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers, Jordan Eberle, Lubomir Visnovsky, Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson, Pat Quinn, Ryan Whitney, Sam Gagner, Shawn Horcoff, Sheldon Souray, Steve Staios, Taylor Chorney, Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin
The Big Finish?
With the 2009-10 season at an end, the question lurking in the minds of many Anaheim Ducks fans is, “Will we see the Finnish Flash, (Teemu Selanne) and Scott Niedermayer back on the ice next season?”
Despite not making the post-season for the first time since the 2003-04 season, the Anaheim Ducks gave their fans a night to remember with a rout of the Edmonton Oilers. Ryan Carter opened the scoring for the Ducks at 2:04 of the first period when he sent a wrist shot into the net behind Oilers’ goaltender, Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers. Carter’s goal was followed a mere 32 seconds later by a slap shot score from the stick of Steve Eminger. This was just the beginning for Anaheim as the Ducks would go on to put up a total of 7 goals in the game.
Categories: Anaheim Ducks, Around the League, By Teams, NHLHS Features, Pacific, Western Conference Tags: Aaron Ward, Corey Perry, Curtis McElhinney, Edmonton Oilers, George Parros, James Wisniewski, Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers, Jonas Hiller, Kyle Chipchura, Matt Beleskey, Mike Comrie, Ryan Carter, Ryan Whitney, Saku Koivu, Scott Niedermayer, Shawn Horcoff, Steve Eminger, Teemu Selanne
Restoring the Rosters: Edmonton Oilers
Based on Matthew Pouliot’s series on Circling the Bases, I have decided restore the rosters for every NHL team. Like Pouliot, I have established some ground rules for my selections.
- Each team contains players they originally drafted or signed before any other NHL team. This includes players drafted and not signed, as well as European free agents coming over at an older age.
- I have chosen to leave retired players off the list, and lean toward players in the AHL rather than those deported (KHL, SEL, DEL, etc.).
Essentially I am choosing the best available players for a team to succeed in the current NHL season. All 30 teams will be covered, with grades assigned to forwards, defense and goaltending. After all 30 articles are written, they will be ranked in order. This series’ intent is to reward or shame NHL scouts.
Categories: 30 Team Series, NHLHS Features, Restoring the Rosters Tags: Ales Hemsky, Alex Plante, Andrew Cogliano, Andy Moog, Danny Syvret, Devan Dubnyk, Fernando Pisani, Georges Laraque, Grant Fuhr, Jake Allen, Jari Kurri, Jason Arnott, Jason Chimera, Jeff Deslauriers, Jeff Petry, Jordan Eberle, Kevin Lowe, Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Mark Messier, Mathieu Roy, Matt Greene, Matthew Lombardi, Mike Comrie, Miroslav Satan, Nikolai Khabibulin, Olivier Roy, Paul Coffey, Rob Schremp, Ryan Smyth, Sam Gagner, Shawn Horcoff, Taylor Chorney, Theo Peckham, Tom Poti, Wayne Gretzky, Zack Stortini
The Sellers: Edmonton Oilers
The Sellers is a weekly column presented by NHLHotStove that will discuss all the rumblings and situations surrounding the teams that will most likely miss the playoffs. Heading into the March 3rd trade deadline, keep an eye out here for the bottom eight to ten teams in the league that will be known as “sellers”.
Recently, the Edmonton Oilers star defenseman and powerplay quarterback expressed his willingness to waive his no trade clause in his contract. Dan Barnes with the Edmonton Journal wrote Sheldon Souray would be open to waiving his no-trade clause should there be a fit. Of course, this trade would need to make sense.
At the ripe age of 33 one would assume this player more comfortable living at home, rather than shipping himself across country.
The Oilers began the season with promise he, but injuries prevailed. The team’s two biggest names, Nikolai Khabibulin and Ales Hemsky, most likely will miss the entire season, taking its toll on the team. Now with no playoffs in sight the club can do nothing but sell, sell, sell.
Automatically names like Souray, Shawn Horcoff, Lubomir Visnovsky and Fernando Pisani come to mind. However, would the Oilers go as far as to trade team captain Ethan Moreau?
Categories: By Teams, Edmonton Oilers, Northwest, The Sellers, Western Conference Tags: Ales Hemsky, Edmonton Oilers, Ethan Moreau, Fernando Pisani, Jordan Eberle, Lubomir Visnovsky, Nikolai Khabibulin, Shawn Horcoff, Sheldon Souray, Steve Tambellini, Taylor Hall, Tom Gilbert
