EDMONTON - With playoffs out of the question and a top-two lottery pick in mind, some fans of the Edmonton Oilers want losses instead of wins for the balance of this season. That's not a sentiment shared in the Oilers dressing room. In th...

Chris Minard has 15 goals and 25 points in 31 games this season. General Manager Steve Tambellini announced today the Edmonton Oilers have recalled fo...

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With playoffs out of the question and a top-two lottery pick in mind, some fans of the Edmonton Oilers want losses instead of wins for the balance of this season. That's not a sentiment shared in the Oilers dressing room.

Yesterday, we looked at the difficulties with assuming that a lottery pick is a magic bullet that fixes a team’s problems. Because there’s so much more to building a team than just finding a superstar and then glomming random players around him, a bad general manager can make even the greatest pick almost completely irrelevant.The problem is that the kind of managers who see their teams fall into a position to make a lottery pick are generally the same kind of managers who have that sort of reverse-Midas touch. The Oilers didn’t spend their season preparing to tank. Steve Tambellini didn’t come back after a year of assessing and say, “we need to blow this roster up.” No, he came back and said he didn’t like the culture of the team and he didn’t like the lack of grit, and he addressed those things by firing Craig MacTavish and bringing in Pat Quinn, who in turn stuck J-F Jacques on the first line.I’ve been over Tambellini’s summer time and again, and I wo

Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin spoke to reporters Tuesday, but would not discuss his February drunk-driving charge in Arizona, which could land him in jail.

After stumbling through three post-Olympic break games, losing all three (one in a shootout), the Ottawa Senators ended their skid Tuesday night, thanks to a 4-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers, the worst team in the NHL.

Edmonton Oilers coach Pat Quinn has adopted a win-and-you're-in philosophy with his young goalies in the last six weeks, so we'll see what happens now that Jeff Deslauriers has turned mortal.

Edmonton Oilers: 1Ottawa Senators: 4The nice thing about the Dive For First is that there’s some solace in watching a loss. Add in the fact that the Maple Leafs beat Boston last night, and this was a pretty good night for draft pick aficionados.It had some points as a hockey game, too. Jeff Deslauriers was magical in the first period, single-handedly keeping the Oilers in the game as the team around him collapsed and let shot after shot after shot get through to him. It also had some strong performances; the Whitney-Gilbert pairing may have finished minus-1 but they were pretty good, and the checking line did a fine job containing Alfredsson and Co.The Oilers were badly outplayed at even-strength and compounded the issue by taking a string of unnecessary penalties. There were other problems too, although I won’t linger on them; suffice to say that this was probably Potulny’s worst game as an Oiler, watching Strudwick and Chorney try to figure out defensive zone cov

Chris Kelly had a goal and an assist, and Matt Cullen, Milan Michalek and Mike Fisher also scored for the Ottawa Senators, who snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.

Edmonton Oilers goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin spoke to reporters on Tuesday, but would not discuss his February drunk-driving charge in Arizona, which could land him in jail.

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Edmonton Oilers coach Pat Quinn has adopted a win-and-you're-in philosophy with his young goalies in the last six weeks, so we'll see what happens now that Jeff Deslauriers has turned mortal. Deslauriers could only do so much against the withering attack of the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday as they eventually wore down the netminder to beat the Oilers 4-1.

Finally, something to cheer about.

Ottawa scores three unanswered goals in the third period for 4-1 victory over Edmonton

Edmonton Oilers coach Pat Quinn has adopted a win-and-you’re-in philosophy with his young goalies in the last six weeks, so we’ll see what happens now that Jeff Deslauriers has turned mortal. Deslauriers had beaten the Minnesota Wild 2-1 and shut out the New Jersey Devils 2-0, stopping 60 straight shots at one point, but he could only do so much against the withering attack of the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday as they eventually wore down the netminder to beat the Oilers 4-1.

The Senators exploded for three goals in the third period and Ottawa snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.

AP - Chris Kelly had a goal and an assist, and Matt Cullen, Milan Michalek and Mike Fisher also scored for the Ottawa Senators, who snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.

As Edmonton gets set to take on Ottawa Tuesday night, Nikolai Khabibulin will miss his 44th game of the season.

The unending roller coaster of emotion takes another twist tonight, as the Oilers go looking for their third consecutive win against the Ottawa Senators. Every win of late elevates the level of concern amongst fans that the Oilers might finish 29th, lose the lottery and end up drafting 3rd and miss out on Tyler Seguin or Taylor Hall.It has been a very, very strange season that has gotten Oilers Fans to the point where the last thing anyone wants is a win. It goes against every natural instinct of being a fan, yet here at the Nation the interest level hasn’t wavered. Visitors to the site have actually increased in this season of futility and that just re-enforces how good of a hockey city Edmonton is.In a season where the Oilers leadership has been questioned, and rightfully so, I find it interesting that the Nation’s supposed leader amongst the fans has become invisible. The 100 different Ogdens still show up on an hourly basis, Archaeologuy, Nate, Pokey Reddick,

Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin spoke to reporters today but would not discuss his February drunk-driving charge in Arizona, which could land him in jail.

In a surprise move, Brian Elliott will be back in goal for the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night as they try to end a three-game losing streak against the Edmonton Oilers.

Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin spoke to reporters today but would not discuss his February drunk-driving charge in Arizona, which could land him in jail.

Fans of the Edmonton Oilers appear to be remarkably accepting of a rebuild. The examples of franchises it works for (Pittsburgh and Chicago, to name two) are compelling, and it’s easy to look at those teams, envy their success, and decide that following their route to the top is the way to go.It’s easy to forget that it doesn’t always work out, because even the greatest superstars need a team around them.(Side note: That’s one of the reasons I get so angry when I hear some generic hockey commentator go on and on about how Player X won a Stanley Cup but Player Y hasn’t and thus Player X is the better player. I know it’s all about winning, but I’ve had it beat into my head since I first put on a pair of skates that it’s a team sport, and that you win or lose as a team. Even the greatest player can’t win without a team around him – as the divorce between Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers should have proved; the team won post-Gretzky, but Gretzky never won post-Oile

Denis Grebeshkov brought his puck-moving flare to Nashville last week.

This is a fairly representative message board query on Gilbert Brule. "Somebody has to do an article on why Brule sits so much. He's fourth on the team in scoring, gets zero power-play time, and lots of guys on the Oilers get way more ice-time. Is he scapegoat for everything that goes wrong?" Signed, Frustrated.

The Ottawa Senators travel to Alberta to take on the Edmonton Oilers. Who will come out on top? Our prediction panel weighs in.

With the Edmonton Oilers winning two straight game to move within four points of the Toronto Maple Leafs atop the Dive For Five, it's time for me to write about how well Jeff Deslauriers has been playing.Didn't I put it out there a long time ago, to a cacophony of braying by the naysayers, that my considerable gut told me Deslauriers had the stuff to be the Oilers starter for years to come? Well, didn't I?Now, after his last two starts, a 22-save performance in a 2-0 shutout over New Jersey Sunday and a 28-save gem in a 2-1 shootout win over Minnesota Friday, can there be any question that JDD is the real goods? No. None. He's put doubt so far up the chute we'll need a flashlight and map to find it. I was right. Not the first time.There. That should pretty much guarantee Deslauriers falls out of his groove and into a clown suit in time to stickhandle his way into all kinds of grief against the Ottawa Senators at Rexall Place Tuesday.That leaves Devan Dubnyk to get blitzed in M

In a season where consistency has been elusive for his team, Edmonton Oilers goaltender Jeff Deslauriers is hoping he's finally found his groove.

EDMONTON - In a season where consistency has been elusive for his team, Edmonton Oilers goaltender Jeff Deslauriers is hoping he's finally found his groove. After making 28 saves in a 2-1 win over Minnesota on Friday, Deslauriers was at h...