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Login To Make Your Prediction2025-26 Regular Season| Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | Edmonton 6 @ Pittsburgh 4 | Win | | Thursday, January 22, 2026 | Pittsburgh @ Edmonton |
Home Record: 0-0-0 Road Record: 1-0-0 Overall Record: 1-0-0
Home / Road Goals For: 0/6 Total: 6
Home / Road Goals Against: 0/4 Total: 42024-25 Regular Season| Friday, October 25, 2024 | Pittsburgh 0 @ Edmonton 4 | Win | | Thursday, January 9, 2025 | Edmonton 3 @ Pittsburgh 5 | Loss |
Home Record: 1-0-0 Road Record: 0-1-0 Overall Record: 1-1-0
Home / Road Goals For: 4/3 Total: 7
Home / Road Goals Against: 0/5 Total: 5 |
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Mike
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You know if their new acquisitions start, it's a guaranteed shutout for Skinner and hat trick for Kulak.
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NZ Oiler Fan
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Apparently we called up Hutson. He's been lighting up the AHL. Surely he'll provide more scoring than Mangiapane & Frederic.
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Adam
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| Mike wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 07:08 |
You know if their new acquisitions start, it's a guaranteed shutout for Skinner and hat trick for Kulak.
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Crosby is just 2 points back of Mario Lemieux for 8th all-time and 1st in Penguins history. We do love helping players to milestones, so I assumed he was the one due for a hat trick tonight...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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Adam
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| NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 08:59 |
Apparently we called up Hutson. He's been lighting up the AHL. Surely he'll provide more scoring than Mangiapane & Frederic.
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Can only be an improvement on Max Jones. I'm still baffled how he got put in the lineup. Also - why is Lazar in over Tomasek?
[Updated on: Tue, 16 December 2025 10:03]
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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Skookum Jim
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| Adam wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 09:00 |
| Mike wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 07:08 |
You know if their new acquisitions start, it's a guaranteed shutout for Skinner and hat trick for Kulak.
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Crosby is just 2 points back of Mario Lemieux for 8th all-time and 1st in Penguins history. We do love helping players to milestones, so I assumed he was the one due for a hat trick tonight...
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Truth.. Milestones ✅, "Slump Busters" ✅(usually right after Jack makes a point of announcing the slump) , and "Ex-Oilers" ✅.. sometimes all 3.. they are not mutally exclusive.
Update: Kulak is wearing Coffey's old #77 .. he asked Coffey for permission..
So a shutout for Stu, and a Gordie for Kulak.. ?
[Updated on: Tue, 16 December 2025 12:28]
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
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Skookum Jim
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Per Stauffer:
Hutson on teh 4th line.. suspect he gets a few shots up higher during the game..
(btw.. Freds signing looking like one of teh worst yet.. Mangiapane's is not far behind.. neither even look engaged in the games.. no skill, no speed, no interest .. which is good if you are applying for a mortage.. but not NHL hockey)
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The @EdmontonOilers morning skate in Pittsburgh:
RNH-McDavid-Hyman
Podkolzin-Draisaitl-Savoie
Mangiapane-Henrique-Janmark
Frederic-Lazar-Hutson
Ekholm-Bouchard
Nurse-Regula
Stastney-Emberson
Jarry
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[Updated on: Tue, 16 December 2025 12:21]
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
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Skookum Jim
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Besides the obvious defensive blunderbus of #2, #25 et al.. another major weakness of the Oil is the play of evryone on the ice when neither #97 or #29 are on at 5v5..
Team gives up TWICE the goals they score when they are NOT on the ice.
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.. But what Knoblauch has done in terms of his bottom two lines hasn’t worked this year. It’s not helping the Oilers win. A new approach is in order.
You see, Edmonton is in desperate need of offensive play when Connor McDavid and/or Leon Draisaitl aren’t on the ice.
With both of them or one of them on the ice at even strength (950 total minutes), the Oilers have scored 60 goals and given up just 48.
Without either of them (97 or 29) on the ice (781 total minutes).. the Oilers have scored 21 goals and given up 46, reports Natural Stat Trick.
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
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Mike
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Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 15:19 |
Frederic-Lazar-Hutson
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Wow - really setting him up for success. 
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Kr55
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| Mike wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 07:08 |
You know if their new acquisitions start, it's a guaranteed shutout for Skinner and hat trick for Kulak.
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It is a Jarry vs Skinner showdown? That would be damn rude if the Pens rob us of that :)
Of course I would go in expecting the absolute worst and most hilarious outcome as well.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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Adam
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 12:19 |
Freds signing looking like one of teh worst yet.. Mangiapane's is not far behind..
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There's no defending the Frederic re-signing and you're even seeing some people in the Oilers organization looking to disavow it now with some reporting that Bowman disregarded advice from analytics and scouting staff in making that signing.
I will say, while I understand the early frustration with Mangiapane, I think we need to not get set in on evaluations. He was bleeding goals against to November 15th. I think he's been a lot better since. Since Nov 15th, he's played 13 games with 0-4-4 and is +1. In the first 20 games he was 4-2-6, but -16. Worth noting that he had 3 terrible games in a week which 10 of his minuses came from.
I know he had a season with Calgary where he had 55 points, but that's an anomaly in his history. He's scored at 0.47 ppg over his career, which means he's about 5 points off the pace right now, but he's also playing exclusively in a depth role right now so not seeing the same ice time as he would have in some of his stops, and he'll get next to no PP time in Edmonton (if you factor that in to his career numbers, he's only 3 points off the pace). Last year he scored 28 points in 81 games (5 on the PP) so very similar to the pace this year.
I'd like to see more offence from him, but as bottom six guy, he's not costing the Oilers anything when he's on the ice and he has better offensive touch than most of that crew there (although that's not exactly a clash of the titans).
I don't think he's got run him out of town on a rail numbers - just need to level set on expectations. He's not a 50-point player.
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"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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Adam
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| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 13:37 |
| Mike wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 07:08 |
You know if their new acquisitions start, it's a guaranteed shutout for Skinner and hat trick for Kulak.
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It is a Jarry vs Skinner showdown? That would be damn rude if the Pens rob us of that :)
Of course I would go in expecting the absolute worst and most hilarious outcome as well.
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Media is suggesting that it is Jarry vs. Skinner. We'll see which team understands their former netminder's weaknesses best...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks
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NetBOG
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Game 34 and 15 have been eastern conference road games. The team record is decent considering that.
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Kr55
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| Adam wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 14:35 |
| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 13:37 |
| Mike wrote on Tue, 16 December 2025 07:08 |
You know if their new acquisitions start, it's a guaranteed shutout for Skinner and hat trick for Kulak.
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It is a Jarry vs Skinner showdown? That would be damn rude if the Pens rob us of that :)
Of course I would go in expecting the absolute worst and most hilarious outcome as well.
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Media is suggesting that it is Jarry vs. Skinner. We'll see which team understands their former netminder's weaknesses best...
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Oilers offer the most hilarious option. The just aren’t shooting at skinner at all. 0 shots 9 mins into the game.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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