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IS DION PHANEUF OVER-RATED?
* ITEM: BEST OF THE OILOGOSPHERE: A DAY OF MANY WINNERS. Dion Phaneuf is over-rated. Rob Schremp was a good first round pick. Tom Gilbert was a rookie rock. And the Flames need to go with whatever...
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Top 10: Who could get traded at the NHL draft
We keep hearing this will be an active draft weekend with bodies flying around, changing teams for draft picks or top prospects as teams look to downsize with the NHL salary cap coming down, but how...
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Where were all the big trades on NHL draft day?
OK, where were all those deals? Sure, Vancouver’s supposed No. 1 goalie Cory Schneider went to New Jersey, shocking one and all on the draft floor, and certainly Roberto Luongo, who probably fell out...
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Ex-Toronto Maple Leafs executive says the Edmonton Oilers may be interested...
Former Maple Leafs assistant general manager Bill Watters was interviewed on Oilers Now on Friday, and he had both an interesting rumour and some harsh words for Toronto captain Dion Phaneuf. In part,...
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Edmonton Oilers defenceman Corey Potter suspended two games for hit on...
LOS ANGELES — Corey Potter had a clean rap sheet in his first 112 NHL games — no suspensions, not even a fine for any nefarious crime on the ice. But the Edmonton Oilers defenceman crossed the line...
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Short Shifts
Most people think the Pittsburgh Penguins will dangle defenceman Simon Despres to get a forward at the NHL trade deadline because they have Derrick Pouliot, who was outstanding in the world junior...
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Dion Phaneuf and Jason Spezza are reportedly on the trading block. How much...
Rumours are heating up in the hockey world, with Nick Kypreos of Sportsnet mentioning that both Jason Spezza of the Ottawa Senators and Dion Phaneuf of the Toronto Maple Leafs are on the block....
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Craig MacTavish lays out the Edmonton Oilers’ plan on defence
The Oilers know that they need to upgrade their blue line, and general manager Craig MacTavish clearly telegraphed his offseason plans on defence to the Edmonton Sun’s Terry Jones on Sunday. After...
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The rumour that won’t go away: Dion Phaneuf and 8th overall pick of Toronto...
This just in from Josh Rimmer, a Toronto sports writer/editor, writing in HockeyBuzz: “The Toronto Maple Leafs have been talking with a handful of teams about Phaneuf in hopes of moving up in the...
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Maple Leafs get tough cookie Roman Polak from Blues
Draft picks, small, medium and large, were the order of the day Saturday as the NHL teams called another 180 names but in and around the roll call of teenagers we also had three trades. Nothing of the...
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A July home run for Oilers will be if they can bring in Mark Fayne, Johnny...
Crafty Bob Stauffer of the Oilers presents an interesting shopping list. It’s indeed a must, as Stauffer says, for the Oilers to bring in at least one centre capable of competing for a job on the...
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The Leafs’ circus is in town and it’s low-wire act
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ substitute teacher Peter Horacek will probably be told “thanks for all your hard work but, sorry, we’re going in a different direction”) after this train wreck of a season...
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Toronto Maple Leafs workhorse Dion Phaneuf could help the Oilers, but his cap...
This in from Damien Cox of Sportsnet on possible destinations for Toronto Maple Leafs d-man Dion Phaneuf, including the Edmonton Oilers: “Given that Boston was one of the teams most interested in Maple...
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Edmonton Oilers should offer-sheet the Boston Bruins’ Dougie Hamilton, who...
One of the big knocks on the idea of Edmonton sending an offer sheet to soon-to-be restricted free agent defenceman Dougie Hamilton is the idea that such a move carries excessive risk, that the Boston...
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Oilers notebook: Connor McDavid is skating but his return still up in the air
Denver – Connor McDavid is skating in Edmonton but whether he’s doing figure-eights or pushing a chair across the ice like a four-year-old to make sure he doesn’t fall and reinjure that busted...
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Nazem Kadri admits he goofed with his throat-slashing gesture
Toronto Maple Leafs’ centre Nazem Kadri came clean and admitted he’d done a silly thing with his on-the-bench throat-slashing gesture Tuesday after Calgary Flames’ captain Mark Giordano blew him up...
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Dion Phaneuf adjusted quickly to life with the Ottawa Senators
How long does it take to forget about seven years worth of F-bombs, face washes, fist fights and elbows in the mouth? About two seconds. That came as a relief to Dion Phaneuf, who had to change sides...
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