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Draft Watch 2013: Jackson Houck
by Lisa McRitchie on 02/08/13 at 11:00 PM ET
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While the NHL season is just starting up, the WHL is quickly winding down. And with that, the pressure on young draft eligible players increases. For Vancouver Giant Jackson Houck, this season had its own challenges playing for a team that has struggled more than usual, but to add to that graduating high school and trying to wow the scouts seems a little much.
Somehow, Houck like all other players in his same position are using the challenge to push them further. Will it be enough is yet to be seen.
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Ryan Updates
by Lisa McRitchie on 02/08/13 at 01:45 AM ET
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The Edmonton Oilers are in a familiar position; a lineup decimated by injury, in the middle of a losing streak, and all the while the playoffs appear to be getting further and further away.
Missing their top line centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Shawn Horcoff, Eric Belanger and now Anton Lander the Oilers are desperately low on centermen. And while playing Ryan Smyth at center will work in the short term, it's certainly not a long term solution.
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Alec Rauhauser Backhand Michigan Move
by Lisa McRitchie on 02/06/13 at 01:20 PM ET
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No word yet if NHL scouts are beating a path to Bismarck Century High School in North Dakota, but this youtube video shows that the school's players have some skills.
As reported by Brian Stubits of CBS's Eye on Hockey, Alec Rauhauser who is currently ranked 196th in North American skaters by Central Scouting, pulled off the old backhand lacrosse style goal against another Bismarck High School and someone was fortunate enough to record it.
For those worried about his goal celebration afterwards, hopefully you didn't find it too unsettling.
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Oilers Winning with Gagner
by Lisa McRitchie on 02/06/13 at 02:00 AM ET
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With three first overall picks, who would have thought that it would be a veteran player leading the Edmonton Oilers in scoring. Yes, 23 year old Sam Gagner with a total of 375 NHL games under his belt has 10 points in 9 games, good enough for the best point streak in the NHL to this point this season.
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A Tale of Two Goalies
by Lisa McRitchie on 02/05/13 at 01:55 AM ET
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It was the battle of the goaltenders Monday night in Edmonton. Kind of. On one end of the rink, Loberto Luongo and on the other Devan Dubnyk. One has allegedly asked for a trade, and was supposed to be passing the torch this season to the younger franchise goaltender. The other is taking the reigns as the starting goaltender while leaving the older tender on the bench. Neither goalie looks to be a lock with their team just yet, but the story of this game was all about the man between the pipes and it would be the Canucks to walk out with a 3-2 OT win.
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Yakupov Rallies Again
by Lisa McRitchie on 01/31/13 at 02:15 AM ET
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Listening to Don Cherry on CBC's coach's corner Saturday, you would think that Nail Yakupov committed sports biggest foul. But looking at the source, that reaction was to be expected. Mr. Cherry is old school and while he can be quite outspoken, he prefers his hockey players to be quiet and demure small town Canadian boys.
As we all know, Yakupov is very Russian, and he has a strong passion for the game and everything he does, including celebrating.
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Never Too Early to Talk Rookie of the Year
by Lisa McRitchie on 01/29/13 at 03:30 PM ET
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The NHL’s rookie of the year trophy, the Calder Memorial, has been handed out 79 times to date. Unsurprisingly the trophy has touched the hands of more forwards than any other position. The totals are 53 forwards - 25 centres, 10 left wingers and 18 right wingers, 16 goaltenders, and only 10 defencemen.
Those 79 recipients have come from 21 of the current 30 NHL teams, and yet with all of the young rookies that have played for the Oilers at one time or another, not one of the recipients has been an Oiler.
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Oilers Look to Renew Competition
by Lisa McRitchie on 01/27/13 at 04:35 PM ET
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The battle of Alberta is not yet what it once was. Slowly, that's changing. No longer are these the fighting days of Dave Semenko and Tim Hunter. Instead these have been the years of a one sided battle where the outcome was known before the initial puck drop. But as I have already mentioned, slowly things are changing.
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Life Imitates “Art” As Oilers Employ Flying V
by Lisa McRitchie on 01/24/13 at 03:10 PM ET
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If you blinked you might have missed it, but in Tuesday night's horrific loss to the San Jose Sharks the Edmonton Oilers pulled out a play made famous by Emilio Estevez's Mighty Ducks movies. That's right, the flying V took flight. It was only briefly, and perhaps because it didn't lead to a goal, wasn't used again that game. But after photos have made their twitter rounds, we finally have video evidence.
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Sour Note to Start the Season
by Lisa McRitchie on 01/23/13 at 01:15 AM ET
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After the sweet sounds of a melodious shootout victory in Vancouver, the Edmonton Oilers' home season started on a sour note. Literally.
As the Oilers tend to do, they invited a local music artist to sing the national anthems. I don't think that this young lady will be invited back given the reaction from both fans and media on twitter. It's not as though she didn't try her best, she just never found her comfort zone, and she appeared to cringe as much as I was listening to her. You have to give her props for standing up to sing in front of nearly 20, 000 people live, and countless more on national television... but I can't applaud the performance. And funny enough, the same can be said of the Oilers' performance.
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Lisa McRitchie is a fairly new writer, online at least, but makes up for inexperience with passion for the game of hockey and memories of Mrs. Leskiw’s English AP class; who knew they would pay off one day.
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