The Edmonton Oilers skated their way into the Stanley Cup Final, but there’s a lot going on off the ice as well for the club. The team may possibly need to name a new general manager this offseason.
The Edmonton Oilers’ goal right now is to win the Stanley Cup. Everything else will be addressed later. The largest thing to be addressed will be who holds the general manager’s seat on July 1st and beyond, as current Oilers general manager Ken Holland’s contract with the club expires the day before free agency kicks off.
Edmonton Oilers general manager Ken Holland has taken his share of lumps since taking the job and building a team he believed would be good enough to compete for a Stanley Cup.
There’s been a lot of talk about the Blue Jackets in the NHL over the past few days. It feels like the club is only hours away from announcing major changes to its hockey operations staff, and some big names could be coming to town.
On Friday, the Carolina Hurricanes announced that Don Waddell was stepping down from his role as President and General Manager. Eric Tulsky, who has been with the organization since 2014 and served as an Assistant General Manager since 2021, has been named interim General Manager.
The 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs rage on. With the conference final rounds now one game in, we’re already seeing teams across the league get a head start on their offseason work.
The two general managers of the teams that will meet in the NHL Western Conference Final have been teammates, friends, colleagues and co-workers for almost half a century.
Ken Holland could take his talents to… Columbus? While Holland is still with the Oilers, looking to close out the 2024 playoffs in a big way, it does mark the final season of a five-year deal that he signed with the team in the spring of 2019.
The Oilers look primed for at least a long playoff run after beating the Los Angeles Kings in five games in the first round.
Back in July of 2021, in an emotional move that stirred both excitement and skepticism among Edmonton Oilers fans, General Manager Ken Holland orchestrated a trade that has proven to be a definitive win for the team.
The 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs are exactly one week away. The Edmonton Oilers currently sit second in the Pacific Division, holding a record of 48-24-6.
The McDavid-less Oilers took on the Vegas Golden Knights last night at Rogers Place with the opportunity to pull themselves within a single point of locking in home-ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs.
When your top guns aren’t running right for a game, it’s always nice to have young talent throughout your roster to help supplement things and secure another victory as the playoffs near.
For most of the 2023-24 season, the Edmonton Oilers have deployed the same three defensive pairings. Edmonton is the only team in the NHL with three different pairs each playing 500 minutes together at 5-on-5.
The Edmonton Oilers have scored 11 goals in their last two games and appear to be heating up just in time for the playoff stretch, led by their impact players.
The Edmonton Oilers made a big move on Wednesday, adding Adam Henrique and Sam Carrick from the Anaheim Ducks. They also added goaltender Ty Taylor and a 7th-round pick as accent pieces to make the trade work.
It’s fitting that we’re at the beginning of March, and in Alberta, the month of March has come in like a lion with a lot of snow and cold temperatures and will hopefully exit like a lamb.
Ken Holland loves to make trades. Since joining the Oilers as general manager in May 2019, he’s made 22 trades. Some good, a few bad. His track record has been a bit of a mixed bag, to say the least.
With the NHL trade deadline looming, Edmonton Oilers general manager Ken Holland is navigating the waters carefully, keeping his options open to make strategic moves that could further strengthen the team.
The Edmonton Oilers made the first coaching change of the season by firing Jay Woodcroft and replacing him with Kris Knoblauch. Is the GM next?
It’s not clear exactly how vocal McDavid was or how that conversation went, but Ken Holland got the message loud and clear and moved other pieces instead.
The Edmonton Oilers find themselves in a very similar position to last offseason: a marginal amount of salary cap space that will immediately be eaten up by re-signing their pending restricted free agents.
When Ken Holland spoke to the media on Wednesday and told everyone that the Edmonton Oilers won’t be buying “green bananas” this offseason, what exactly did he mean?
Sportsnet is reporting that Edmonton Oilers president of hockey ops and general manager Ken Holland told the media that the long-time NHL executive intends to honor the final season of his five-year contract.
The trade deadline has come and gone, and several teams made some big moves to bolster their teams for the playoffs, while others made some surprising ones out of left field. Which general managers have the most on the line with the deadline in the rearview mirror.
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