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SportsAnna
posted 38 hours ago from
archives.cbc.ca
Pocklington does the unthinkable by robbing Edmonton and
Canada of the game's greatest champion. In what is
the biggest trade in sports history, 27-year-old Gretzky is L.A. bound.
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SportsAnna
posted 40 hours ago from
www.globesports.com
Hockey Canada has scheduled what it calls a
"major press conference" for both Calgary and Edmonton Thursday,
in which the organization is expected to announce that the two cities will co-host the 2012 world junior hockey championship.
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SportsAnna
posted 42 hours ago from
slam.canoe.ca
With their recently launched Oilers Score program, the
club is shooting to raise funds for prostate cancer
research at the Cross Cancer Institute on the University of Alberta's main campus.
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A good profile from Inside College Hockey today
got me thinking about Oilers prospect Jeff Petry. According
to Guy Flaming of Hockey’s Future, Petry is the number one prospect in the Oilers’ system. He’s an all-round defenceman with good size ...
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EDMONTON - Daryl Katz so wanted Georges Laraque
here as the Edmonton Oilers' nightly beat cop, the
new owner offered the big guy a four-year contract -- one more year than the Montreal Canadiens were pitching the right winger. Laraque still took the ...
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So much of a defenseman's offensive stats come
from PP time, and their even strength points and
+/- (and the underlying numbers that drive it) seem to be mostly of a reflection of the quality of opposition and context of their ice time. These are ...
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The 4 pillars of this MacT team are
likely to be Horcoff, Pisani, Staios and the veteran
tandem in net. If these men can perform their jobs and finish > while climbing Everest then the Oilers should make the second season. I've always had a theory ...
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Edmonton Oilers captain Ethan Moreau reportedly was a
passenger in a vehicle involved in an alleged hit-and-run
in Vancouver last week.
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EDMONTON -- These are the dog days if
you're looking for a hockey fix, but the fan
message boards are full of crazy Ales Hemsky trade rumours to the Montreal Canadiens. That's like fantasizing that you might get a date with Halle Berry. Not a chance. ...
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For Georges Laraque it was a tough decision.
One of the toughest he's had to make as
a professional hockey player. Essentially it was between two places he calls home. Between a team he grew up idolizing and one he grew to love. In the end, the ...
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James Gordon of the Ottawa Citizen has posted
some of the images found in "public document filings
in the lead-up to the 2008/2009 NHL season" (gotta love a smart reporter move like that), which reveal interesting alternate logos for the ...
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This isn't official, but I felt it newsworthy
considering it could be. A reader sent me an
email he says he received — from where I do not know — regarding the release dates of this season's new third jerseys. And I know how you all just love ...
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Estimating point totals for Jason Strudwick is pretty
easy. The stay-at-home, physical defender will show up more
often in other categories, like blocked shots, healthy scratch and 5-for-fighting. Strudwick can play the wing but is mostly ...
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from the Lansing State Journal, “It’s a great
to be back on the ice and it’s a
good week to go through organized practices that help all of us get ready for training camp,’’ said former Spartan captain Shawn Horcoff, ...
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So the plot thickens. With everyone now essentially
saying that McCabe will indeed be heading to Florida,
but not for two weeks, we are left with an interesting scenario.. And a VERY odd one as well. Can the Leafs make this into a bigger deal? ...
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DugoutStories
posted 14 days ago from
www.rootzoo.com
In 1988, the Edmonton Oilers had just won
their 4th Stanley Cup in 5 years. They had
the greatest star in the game surrounded by some of the best young talent one team has ever collected in the history of the game. They were on top of the World, but a storm was brewing.
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As those of you who have been reading
this site since its inception know, I am forever
making references to two hockey books: Future Greats and Heartbreaks , by Gare Joyce, and King of Russia , by Dave King with Eric Duhatschek, because I think both ...
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Glenn Anderson, who was finally selected to the
Hockey Hall of Fame this year, will be getting
his night at Rexall Place! Glenn will join fellow Oilers in the rafters on January 18th ! Yes I'm excited. This will be my fourth retirement ceremony: ...
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* With a tip of the hat to
The Chief There hasn't been an uneventful summer in
Edmonton in years and Kevin Lowe did not disappoint again this year. The good news is that before Lowe was bumped up the ladder he had looked like he regained his ...
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Judging from the passion displayed in the “Comments”
section of this blog, it would appear that the
executive feud between Brian Burke of the Ducks and Kevin Lowe of the Edmonton Oilers has lifted the Oilers into the status of being the Ducks’ ...
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With Wayne Gretzky's trade from the dynastic Oilers
to the Kings 20 years ago unassailably the most
significant move in the NHL annals, Scott Burnside reveals the seven biggest swaps in history.
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Rover
found this 19 days ago on
lowetide.blogspot.com
Isaac Hayes died today. He was 65. Hayes'
"Theme from Shaft" is imbedded in our brains (or
at least for people my age) and there weren't many who could get away with singing " Who's the black private dickThat's a sex machine to all the chicks? Shaft! You're damn right" way back when but Hayes did and they gave him a #1 record and every award they could for doing it. If you know ...
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There's a chance that Lubomir Visnovsky will post
the best offensive numbers of the MacTavish coaching regime.
Since taking over the club in summer 2000, MacT has had some pretty nice offensive talent on the blue. Among the finest offensive seasons ...
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Which begs the question: What would have a
Detroit trade look liked? Using the actual Kings' trade
as a template, the asking price likely would have been the same $15 million US as well as the three first round draft picks. The Kings had Martin ...
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uatgsports
posted 20 days ago from
uatgsports.ca
August 9, 1988 was a tough day for
Wayne Gretzky. It was clear he didn’t want to
leave Edmonton, but little did he know that the Gretzky brand would take-off with his relocation to Hollywood.
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uatgsports
posted 20 days ago from
uatgsports.ca
It was the trade heard ‘round the world.
It is one of those moments etched in time.
"The "Great One" goes Hollywood. Remember When?
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frozenroyalty
posted 20 days ago from
frozenroyalty.net
The 20th anniversary of the trade that brought
The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, to Los Angeles is
being commemorated by the National Hockey League and Gretzky is being universally praised, and deservedly so. But there is one thing…
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I’m not too hip to pop culture, and
so the fact that Tori Spelling has a reality
television show with her Canadian love monkey Dean McDermott had barely registered on my radar. That is, till Dean brought a video camera to the arena with ...
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Just because we haven’t heard anything about it
lately doesn’t mean that something couldn’t still come from
the Ducks’ formal tampering charge against the Edmonton Oilers. The NHL gave Edmonton until Friday to respond to the charge filed ...
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USA Today's Kevin Allen wrote a fantastic column
about the 20th anniversary of the Wayne Gretzky trade,
and, in speaking with Anaheim Ducks GM Brian Burke, he reveals that Gretzky's career could have taken a drastically different turn if he'd...
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While most of the rest of the sports
world is preoccupied with the trade of Brett Favre
from Green Bay to New York and the possibilities that deal presents going forward, the hockey world has been spending most of this week looking backward at a ...
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When former Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall
first brought up the idea of trading for Wayne
Gretzky, he recalls that Edmonton ...
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is accusing Edmonton city
officials of hiding some important facts in its review
of a $450 million NHL hockey arena proposed for the downtown. A city-funded report released in March recommended that Edmonton build a ...
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OnFrozenBlog
posted 22 days ago from
www.onfrozenblog.com
As one who criticized the NHL Network for
a meagerness of programming this summer, I need to
be quick on the draw to commend the outlet for what it did for hockey fans last night. Wednesday night’s documentary on the 1988 trade of Wayne Gretzky from Edmonton to LA, labeled ‘A Day that Changed the Game Forever,’ may end up serving as the segment that changed the network forever.
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August 9, 1988: A day which will live
in infamy in Canadian hockey history . Sing it
with me : Walter Gretzky had a son He grew up to be the great one He came from Brantford Ontario He liked Gordie Howe you know It was on this Summer day 19 years ago ...
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Maury
posted 24 days ago from
www.bizofhockey.com
It was a day that altered the face
of the NHL, and set into motion an escalation
in the interest of the game Stateside. On August 9, 1988, Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Stanley Cup champion Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings were considered to be nothing more than a footnote to the league at the time. The trade changed the fortunes of the Kings, was a driving force
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You know the Edmontonian phrase "Everyone knows where
they were when Gretzky was traded?" Well, I have
no idea where I was twenty years ago ― Aug. 9 to be exact ― and it's a disappointment that ranks right up there with sleeping through all of ...
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As I wrote last week, Ducks fans have
set up a charity fundraiser to beat the Edmonton
Oilers after comments by now former Edmonton GM Kevin Lowe stating that Anaheim fans were “pathetic.” In an interesting twist, Lowe was replaced as GM ...
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NHL History: The shocking trade