Stacked OKC Barons ready to kick out the jams
Serious hockey gets underway on this continent tonight as the American Hockey League opens its 77th (consecutive!) season. While it won’t replace the big leagues, the already-strong minor circuit will...
View ArticleBarons player grades — Justin Schultz impresses in pro debut but OKC falls 2-1
The puck finally dropped on the 2012-13 season on Friday night, at least the American Hockey League version. The Edmonton Oilers top affiliate, Oklahoma City Barons, saw their first action in Cleveland...
View ArticleOKC Barons’ Nordic Line of Magnus Paajarvi – Anton Lander – Teemu Hartikainen...
Interesting happenings down in Oklahoma City. After a pair of shutout losses on the road, Todd Nelson revamped his lines four games ago, establishing a clear hierarchy by stacking his top line with...
View ArticlePlenty to like about the game of “Modest” Magnus Paajarvi
He’s not a scorer, he’s a checker, and nothing wrong with that I don’t like Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson on a scoring line. I don’t like him on the power play. I don’t like him in the Top Six even, at...
View ArticleThe NHL lockout and its consequences overseas — guest columnist Martin Lundén...
One of the coolest things about the Internet is that one gets to “meet” all sorts of people who share one’s interest, no matter where they might live. Oftentimes their very location provides them with...
View ArticleIs Magnus Paajarvi finally ready for prime time in the NHL?
Paajarvi blasted as the “epitome of soft forward,” but Sportsnet’s MacLean argues the Oilers need to take a closer look… Controversy swirls around Magnus Paajavi, who some in Edmonton see as a solid...
View ArticleMagnus Paajarvi playing his best hockey at the NHL level
Just two weeks ago, most Edmonton Oilers fans didn’t want to see Magnus Paajarvi on a top line for the Edmonton Oilers. In a February 28 poll, The Cult of Hockey asked who should play with Sam Gagner...
View ArticleEdmonton Oiler winger Jordan Eberle finally breaks through
Jordan Eberle is paid to score but it’s tough when you’re sore. He’s been a one-handed shooter for a couple of weeks after Nail Yakupov’s shot smashed into his finger in Minnesota on March 3, during a...
View ArticleMagnus Paajarvi on the block in trade with Boston Bruins?
This just in from from Boston hockey reporter Joe Haggerty of CNNE: “Don’t be shocked if its the name Magnus Paajarvi that you hear paired with Ryan Whitney in trade discussions w/the Bruins. … I was...
View ArticleSam Gagner and Magnus Paajarvi are slumping again for Edmonton Oilers
If the Yo Yo Line doesn’t get going, kiss the playoffs good-bye… Edmonton Oilers linemates Sam Gagner and Magnus Paajarvi are the yo-yo players of the team this year. They’ve been down, up and down...
View ArticleEdmonton Oilers enter free agent season with plenty of holes to fill
So much for “Blockbuster Day”. The 2013 NHL Draft delivered less than promised on the trade front, with only one major deal (Cory Schneider for a top 10 draft pick) and relatively few involving...
View ArticleEdmonton Oilers trade Magnus Paajarvi to St. Louis Blues to acquire winger...
Take Our Poll News has just broken that Edmonton Oilers have made a significant trade, acquiring winger David Perron from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for winger Magnus Paajarvi and a second-round...
View ArticleThe Essential Magnus Paajarvi: Top 10 Posts on PRV’s Oilers Career
Draft and 2010-11 season 1. Oilers get their wish and draft Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson Swedish prospect — compared in recent days to Mogilny, Forsberg and Gartner — slides down and the Oilers are able to...
View ArticleKen Hitchcock weighs in on Magnus Paajarvi, David Perron, and the...
The view from St. Louis Ken Hitchcock may have been in Europe when the other shoe finally dropped on the David Perron-Magnus Paajarvi trade, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have plenty of input on the...
View ArticleKen Hitchcock has never forgotten where it all started, here in Edmonton
It’s a cliche, but home really is where the heart is, which is why hockey fans can again chew on Ken Hitchcock’s insights in the second “Lunch With Hitch” to raise money for The Brick Sport...
View ArticleOlympic team coach Ken Hitchcock is big Dallas Eakins fan
At a luncheon Friday, St. Louis Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock stopped just short of yelling gimme an E, gimme an A, gimme a K, gimme an I, gimme an N, gimme an S when cheerleading for new Edmonton Oilers’...
View ArticleMajor opportunity for Ryan Jones or Ryan Smyth on Oilers power play
With Hartikainen and Paajarvi gone, who will the Oilers get to screen the goalie on the power play? No Dustin Penner, no Shawn Horcoff, no Magnus Paajarvi, no Teemu Hartikainen. With all of these...
View ArticleTencer: Edmonton Oilers should keep Hall at center until Gagner returns
The news that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is ready to return to the lineup is, obviously, sensational for the Edmonton Oilers. I wrote here last week that the center ice depth chart was giving me headaches...
View ArticleRemember: Edmonton Oilers’ acquisition of David Perron came courtesy St....
While it appears the Edmonton Oilers high-jacked David Perron from the St. Louis Blues when they traded for him this summer, offering up a much-lesser Magnus Paajarvi and a second-round pick, the Blues...
View ArticleMagnus Paajarvi still finding his way with the St. Louis Blues
The transition has been far from seamless for Magnus Paajarvi, who returns to Rexall Place tonight as a member of the St. Louis Blues. But the team is winning, and he does have a head coach who sees a...
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