Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Nov 11, 2009, 3:10 pm
For those who haven’t noticed yet, I’ve moved this blog over to lowonoil.com. Here’s some of the new posts at the new site: Team Canada Olympic Hockey Team Roster Evaluation. Oilers...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Nov 7, 2009, 8:52 pm
Updates at new Low On Oil site: Jordan Eberle – Hockey’s Future Prospect of the month. Top 10 Oilers not in the Hall of Fame Oilers recall Potulny and Reddox. Game 17 – Oilers vs. A...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Nov 6, 2009, 12:13 am
Okay, so I’ve already moved to the new Low On Oil site, yet I keep coming back here…  I guess I’m just sentimental  that way, lol.  Well, the Oilers lost again tonight which now m...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Nov 3, 2009, 4:21 pm
Hey everyone, as I’ve noted in a previous post, my Low On Oil blog has moved to a new domain.  I thought that I would just provide a quick update of some of the recent blog posts at the new Low...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Nov 1, 2009, 8:00 am
Low On Oil has moved to LowOnOil.com! Hi everyone, my blog, Low On Oil, has moved to a new domain.  The new domain name as above is lowonoil.com. Low On Oil, an Edmonton Oilers hockey blog, is proud ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 31, 2009, 2:55 am
Edmonton Oilers vs. Boston Bruins at TD Gardens. Game preview including projected rosters as well as game highlights and analysis.
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 30, 2009, 2:45 pm
Dustin Penner is a stud! When Oilers GM, Steve Tambellini, espoused the Oilers new mantra of “build from within,” I am quite certain that he had no idea that this would include building a ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 29, 2009, 1:15 pm
Edmonton Oilers vs. Detroit Red Wings – Thursday October 29, 2009, 7:30 PM – Rexall Place The Edmonton Oilers (6-5-1) will be hosting the slumping Detroit Red Wings tonight (4-4-2)
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 28, 2009, 9:45 pm
The Colorado Avalanche (9-1-2) are playing tonight in Calgary (7-2-1) at the Pengrowth Saddledome (Wednesday October 28, 7:30 pm MT).  The Colorado Avalanche are playing their second game in as many ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 27, 2009, 1:22 pm
The Edmonton Oilers (6-4-1) will be hosting the Colorado Avalanche (8-1-2), a team who’s experienced their own resurgence this season at Rexall Place at 7:30 pm MT.  Much of Colorado’s re...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 26, 2009, 9:40 pm
Initially, the Oilers started  off to a blazing pace with a 6-2-1 record to start to this season.  However, after these two recent losses to our North West division rivals including the Calgary Flam...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 25, 2009, 6:37 pm
At General Motors Place in Vancouver at 8pm (MT), the Edmonton Oilers will face the Vancouver Canucks.  It’s going to be a tough game to play coming off the loss just last night to Calgary and ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 25, 2009, 5:37 pm
As Oiler fans, it’s easy to appreciate that we’re 10 games into the season and bearing witness to our current lack of roster depth in the face of some unfortunate and untimely injuries/ill...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 24, 2009, 2:35 pm
The Edmonton Oilers will square off against the Calgary Flames tonight at the Pengrowth Saddledome at 8 pm MT.  Over the past three years, the Battle of Alberta has seemingly been losing its relevanc...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 23, 2009, 4:36 pm
If you’ve been watching the Oilers this year with last night’s game in particular, you’re probably getting the sense that it’s a good time to be an Oilers fan.  In fact, you&#...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 22, 2009, 12:27 pm
The Edmonton Oilers (5-2-1) host the Columbus Blue Jackets (5-2-0) at Rexall Place tonight at 7:30 pm.  The Blue Jackets are coming off a recent loss to Calgary (6-3).  In fact, the score of their p...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 21, 2009, 6:10 pm
Okay, so we’ve seen the Oilers start the season with a reasonably impressive 5-2-1 record in spite of an OT loss to Calgary resulting from tying goal with less than 2 seconds on the clock in reg...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 20, 2009, 10:28 pm
Okay, I thought that I would just take a quick look at some of the injury concerns with the Edmonton Oilers roster of players.  The list is unfortunately long for this early in the season and potenti...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 19, 2009, 6:06 pm
Tonight, the Edmonton Oilers will be hosting the Vancouver Canucks at Rexall Place.  The puck drops at 7pm.  Though they started off with a somewhat inauspicious start, the Vancouver Canucks are now...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 18, 2009, 3:09 pm
Currently, the Edmonton Oilers are 6th in the Western Conference in terms of the standings.  Perhaps the most intriguing question regarding the Edmonton Oilers is how they are managing to win games d...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 17, 2009, 7:37 pm
Racki from the Putting on the Foil blog has just launched a new blog site called, “The Wall!”  The Wall blog is a site where you can sign up and post your own blogs about the Oilers or ot...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 16, 2009, 3:58 pm
The Edmonton Oilers will be hosting the Minnesota Wild tonight at 7:00pm MT at Rexall Place.  The game will be available on PPV tonight.  Of note, the Oilers are coming off a recent loss to the Chic...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 15, 2009, 3:17 pm
Over the course of the summer during the off season, among the concerns for the Edmonton Oilers roster of skaters was the lack of size and grit.  Many speculated that Steve Tambellini would look to m...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 14, 2009, 6:19 pm
Tonight, the Edmonton Oilers (3-1-1-) will face the Chicago Blackhawks (3-1-1) at 6:30 pm MT at the United Center in Chicago. Nikolai Khabibulin will face his old team at his former arena. The Chicag...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 13, 2009, 7:58 pm
According to recent stories on CBC Sports as well as other newspapers in the MSM, it sounds like big Georges Laraque has incensed various feminist groups following his appearance in a commercial for O...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 12, 2009, 11:46 pm
Okay, it’s been pretty quiet as of late on the Edmonton Oilers / NHL trade rumor front.  For those esurient NHL trade rumor chasers, it’s been tough times…  Fortunately, David Stap...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 12, 2009, 12:38 pm
Tonight, the Edmonton Oilers will play the Nashville Predators with the game starting at 6pm mountain time.  The Nashville Predators has a very impressive 11-1-0 record against the Edmonton Oilers in...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 11, 2009, 4:35 pm
Dany Heatley’s started this season at a blazing scoring pace with 5 goals and 10 points in just 5 games.  As such, I thought it would be interesting to compare his scoring pace with the two for...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 11, 2009, 2:57 pm
According to Dan Tencer’s twitter, it sounds like the Edmonton Oilers will be placing Sheldon Souray on IR tomorrow morning.  This will correspond with an injury call-up for Taylor Chorney.  S...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 10, 2009, 5:24 pm
Tonight, the Edmonton Oilers will be playing the Montreal Candiens at Rexall Place.  The game is scheduled to start at 8 pm on CBC.  The Canadiens are 2-2-0 which currently puts them in a tie for 1s...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 8, 2009, 4:55 pm
Tonight, the Edmonton Oilers will square off against the Calgary Flames in what will be their second match this season.  Already, the Flames have rocketed to the top of the Western Conference with 3 ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 7, 2009, 7:03 pm
Tomorrow night, Rob Schremp looks to be making his debut as a New York Islander against the Ottawa Senators.  Oddly enough, it’s speculated that Schremp’s debut will cause Jeff Tambellini...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 6, 2009, 6:29 pm
In just a few short hours, the Edmonton Oilers will be playing the Dallas Stars in their second game of this season.  Unfortunate gaffs and bounces aside, already I am liking what I see in terms of P...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 6, 2009, 10:00 am
Alright, given that Dustin Penner’s had a solid preseason  as well as his likable demeanor and sense of humor, I’ve made a quick Photoshop based on a few of his recent media interviews. ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 3, 2009, 4:35 pm
Tonight, the Edmonton Oilers will start their season with an opening game vs. the Calgary Flames.  Already, the Calgary Flames have defeated the Vancouver Canucks in their own season opener with a sc...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Oct 1, 2009, 5:43 pm
Okay, as Oilers fans, there’s a few nagging questions as we start off this upcoming season. Not the least of which are the looming questions surrounding our ability to win faceoffs. Last seaso...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 29, 2009, 4:21 pm
Hockey Night in Blogdom, a feature of the New York Times Slasphot blog, consists of a series of questionnaires sent to bloggers from the 30 teams in the NHL.  To start the new NHL season, they’...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 29, 2009, 2:03 pm
Schremp passes to Tambellini… he shoots, he scores! As per Dan Tencer’s twitter, Rob Schremp has been picked up on waivers by the New York Islanders.  For Rob Schremp, this amounts to a b...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 27, 2009, 2:16 pm
Over the past few weeks, a new catch phrase has emerged from New York…  Yup, ‘keep plucking that chicken’ is a phrase that’s spreading like wildfire.  Just a few short weeks ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 25, 2009, 4:19 pm
Looking into the clouds is often used as a metaphor for predicting future events.  Already this off season, we’ve seen predictions regarding the NHL standings from both the Hockey News as well ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 25, 2009, 3:15 pm
Okay, this is far from being actual news as it’s just speculation at this point.  However, Oilers Nation has gained some further street cred after breaking the news on the Mike Comrie signing.Â...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 24, 2009, 12:52 pm
Last night the Edmonton Oilers lost in a 5-3 tilt vs. the Calgary Flames.  The highlight of the game, featured above, was the physical presence of Jean-Francois Jacques.  I’m still not quite s...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 22, 2009, 6:34 pm
Okay, if you’ve ever seen me at the old OMB–you’d know by now that I do have a tendency to have some random thoughts.  Today, I am going to continue onward with that trend in terms ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 21, 2009, 8:19 pm
Okay, so I thought it was time to take a quick look at the Edmonton Oiler prospect, Ryan Stone.  We’re still in the preseason, but already Stone’s making a great impression as well as a c...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 20, 2009, 1:51 pm
Okay, so the Oilers lost last night 3-1 in the preseason game vs. The Vancouver Canucks.  Since you can learn as much or more from a loss than a win, let’s review some aspects of the game. To ...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 19, 2009, 3:33 pm
Okay, I can only guess–but this just may have been on Mike Comrie’s IPOD play list prior to last night’s game vs. the Florida Panthers… If you missed it, Mike Comrie put on an...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 17, 2009, 1:37 pm
Last night at the Rexall Place arena in Edmonton, New York Islander, John Tavares made his NHL debut alongside teammate, Doug Weight.  John Tavares was the first overall pick in the 2009 NHL entry dr...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 16, 2009, 4:01 pm
Okay, so here I am in eager anticipation of what line combination Patt Quinn will decide to use for the beginning of the season.  Though poker analogies have often been beaten to death in every sport...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 14, 2009, 10:07 pm
Okay, first of all, if you’re wondering about the Schremp photo, well let’s just say I wanted to use it before it’s too late, lol!  On the one hand, Schremp’s fortunate that h...
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Hockey Noob posted an article on Low On Oil - Sep 13, 2009, 11:11 am
I don’t think that I am the only one to scratch my head with a sense of wonder trying to figure out what possible line combination coach, Pat Quinn, will use for the start of the season.    Le...
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