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The Battle of Alberta: Two Teams Fighting Their Way Out of the Noise an Contention It’s fair to say things are improving for Calgary and Edmonton since the last Battle of Alberta. The two teams sat in 30th and 31st place in the standings with a single game left in October and just three combined wins over 15 games. With the month closing out and the outside noise drawing to unbearable levels, the Flames and Oilers looked to their Oct. 29 Heritage Classic meeting as a possible opportunity to turn the page. A sloppy three periods of awkward transition play and…
Riding historic streak, Oilers take on rival Flames The Edmonton Oilers are on the verge of NHL history as they hit the road to play the Calgary Flames on Saturday. Their 12-game winning streak, with the latest victory a 4-2 comeback decision over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday, has the Oilers tied with the 1967-68 Montreal Canadiens for the longest run by a Canadian-based team. “We don’t talk about the streak very much, if at all,” Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said. “I’m not sure what they talk about when I leave the room, but I don’t think they do. I…
The season is only halfway done but it feels like the Edmonton Oilers have already crammed about a decade’s worth of drama into those 41 games. They’ve run the gamut from the humiliating low of getting yet another coach fired before the season was three weeks old to the astonishing highs of eight- and 12-game winning streaks. They’ve climbed from a humbling loss in San Jose that dropped them into tie for last place overall to with striking distance of home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. They went from giving up 17 goals against in a three-game losing streak in…
Jacob Ramsey update, absence vs Everton Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has provided an update on Jacob Ramsey after he missed our goalless draw with Everton due to a fresh injury concern. The 22-year-old’s campaign has already been severely disrupted by injury, as he has been limited to 14 appearances across all competitions thus far, totalling 668 minutes of football. Having appeared to be still working towards full fitness and sharpness in recent weeks as he searches for his best form, the last thing Ramsey needed was a new setback. Unfortunately, Emery confirmed after our 0-0 draw at Goodison Park…
Daniel Farke has shared some “mixed” team news ahead of this weekend’s Championship clash between Leeds United and Preston North End. The Whites face Preston at Deepdale looking to add to their three successive victories to begin 2024, all by the same 3-0 scoreline. United may make changes on the back of last weekend’s win at Cardiff City as some players are back, while other are expected to miss out. Speaking to reporters on the eve of the game on Friday [19 January], as per Leeds’ official Twitter account, Farke said: “I have some mixed news.” “It’s good news on Sam…
Former NFL quarterback and current NBC Sports football analyst Chris Simms ripped the Cleveland Browns for the way they handled current Tampa Bay Buccaneers signal-caller Baker Mayfield after Mayfield played through a serious injury to his non-throwing shoulder while with the Browns during the 2021 season. “Baker got screwed over by the Browns — there’s no other way around it,” Simms told Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post for a piece published Friday. “He played with a hurt shoulder for a year [2021] and didn’t play great. They used that against him and then went out and tried to get Deshaun Watson without…