Mark Spector

The bread is stale. Andrew Mangiapane is on the market, as the Edmonton Oilers try to recover from their second consecutive disastrous July 1. For a team that’s made some very strong pick-ups along the way, nabbing Vasily Podkolzin, Jack Roslovic, Connor ... See more

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The good thing about Stuart Skinner’s first start as a Pittsburgh Penguin tonight is that there isn’t much subtext around the game. Only the fact that Skinner will face Tristan Jarry, for whom he was traded on Friday along with B... See more

It’s an awful place to have to go, really, that one trip into Amerant Bank Arena that the Edmonton Oilers are forced to make each season. Not because of the Florida Panthers, so much, but more the PTSD of it all. The sobering reminder that instead of bein... See more

Is it getting any better? Or is nothing really changing? That’s likely the most worrisome part when it comes to an Edmonton Oilers team that has mastered the slow start, big finish routine over the past two seasons. When do they turn that corner? Can anyo... See more

EDMONTON — Mattias Ekholm was asked about the merits of a team that’s stumbling along as clumsily as his Edmonton Oilers are, yet is still collecting enough points not to be buried out West. He acknowledged, and we paraphrase, it’s better than the alterna... See more