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| With Carbonneau gone, Gainey leads Habs against Oilers |
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03/10/2009 |
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| r better showings in recent memory, but that still couldn't save the fate of the team's head coach. Bob Gainey takes over for the fired Guy Carbonneau behind the bench when the embattled Habs begin a four-game homestand with tonight's clash with the Edmonton Oilers. Carbonneau was relieved of his duties Monday in the latest startling event of what's been a tumultuous season for Montreal, with general manager Gainey taking over on a short-term basis. The change comes with the Canadiens tied for fifth place in t |
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| Brodziak, Roloson help Oilers top Maple Leafs |
NHL Hockey |
03/08/2009 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - Dwayne Roloson was sensational between the pipes, stopping 39 shots, as the Edmonton Oilers scored four unanswered goals to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1, at Air Canada Centre. Kyle Brodziak tallied twice, while Ales Hemsky and Fernando Pisani also lit the lamp for the Oilers, who improved to 1-1-1 on an important four-game road trip. Roloson collected his 23rd victory of the season. The 39-year-old Roloson started his 21st consecutive game in net, which set a franchise reco |
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| Surging Leafs play host to Oilers |
NHL Hockey |
03/07/2009 |
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| ork) - Although it may be too little and too late, the Toronto Maple Leafs are making a case for inclusion in the postseason. The resurgent Leafs will try to earn at least a point for a ninth straight time when they return home tonight to battle the Edmonton Oilers. Toronto recorded its fifth victory in its last six outings with Thursday's 2-1 road triumph over an Alexander Ovechkin-less Washington club and is 5-0-3 over its last eight games. That outstanding stretch has given the Leafs a glimmer of hope in th |
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| Balanced attack leads Sens over Oilers |
NHL Hockey |
03/05/2009 |
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| Ottawa, ON (MySportsbook) - Jason Spezza, Mike Comrie and Dany Heatley each notched a goal and an assist, and the Ottawa Senators defeated the Edmonton Oilers, 4-2, at Scotiabank Place. Chris Campoli also scored for the Senators, who had lost six of their previous seven games. Brian Elliot stopped 24-of-26 shots for his eighth win of the season. Sam Gagner tallied both goals for the Oilers, who have dropped six of eight overall. Dwayne Roloson allowed four goals on 32 shots to take the loss. Spezza put the |
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| Oilers' Moreau placed on injured reserve |
NHL Hockey |
03/05/2009 |
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| Edmonton, AB (MySportsbook) - Edmonton Oilers team captain Ethan Moreau was placed on injured reserve Thursday due to a right eye injury suffered in a 3-2 win against Minnesota last weekend. Moreau went down after a high-sticking incident with 20 seconds left in the February 28 game when Antii Miettinen of the Wild had his blade inadvertently thrust into the air after making contact with the Edmonton winger. Moreau stayed on the ice before being helped to the locker room, then was taken to Royal Alexandria |
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| Carolina Hurricanes |
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03/04/2009 |
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| Acquired left wing Erik Cole and a fifth-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft from the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for center Patrick O'Sullivan and a second-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. |
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| Oilers get F Kotalik from Sabres |
NHL Hockey |
03/04/2009 |
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| Edmonton, AB (MySportsbook) - The Edmonton Oilers shipped a 2009 second-round draft pick to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for forward Ales Kotalik on Wednesday. Kotalik has 13 goals and 19 assists in 56 games this season. Of his 32 points, 18 have come on the power play in the form of eight tallies and 10 helpers. The 30-year-old has skated in 426 NHL games since Buffalo took him in the sixth round of the 1998 draft. In that time he has amassed 114 goals and 126 assists for 240 points. Kotalik's best seaso |
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| Hurricanes, Oilers, Kings work deal |
NHL Hockey |
03/04/2009 |
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| Raleigh, NC (MySportsbook) - The Carolina Hurricanes, Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings worked a three-team deal involving three players Wednesday. The Hurricanes dealt forward Justin Williams to the Kings for forward Patrick O'Sullivan and a second-round pick in the 2009 draft. Carolina then sent O'Sullivan and its own 2009 second-round draft selection to the Oilers in exchange for forward Erik Cole and a fifth-round pick in 2009. Cole makes his return to the club which he called home for the first six |
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| Arnott leads Preds past Oilers in OT |
NHL Hockey |
03/04/2009 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - Jason Arnott's power-play tally 2:31 into overtime lifted Nashville over the Edmonton Oilers, 6-5, and increased the Predators' winning streak to a season-high five games. In the extra session, Edmonton defenseman Jason Strudwick went to the penalty box for high-sticking, giving the Predators a 4-on-3. Nashville kept constant pressure in the Edmonton zone, and a little more than a minute into the power play, Predators defenseman Shea Weber blasted a point shot from the left si |
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| Preds, Oilers meet for key test in Nashville |
NHL Hockey |
03/03/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Playoff positioning in the Western Conference will be on the line when the Nashville Predators host the Edmonton Oilers tonight in a key showdown from the Sommet Center. Only one point separates these teams in the jumbled conference standings right now, with Edmonton clinging to one of the final two postseason seeds. The Oilers are tied with Anaheim for seventh place in the West with 67 points, while Nashville sits immediately behind those two. The Predators enter this matchup as the hotter |
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