The Edmonton Oilers are trying out a new strategy to help spark some scoring down the lineup, and it includes an exciting new forward line.

EDMONTON, AB – The Edmonton Oilers announced Friday they have recalled forwards Isaac Howard and Quinn Hutson from the AHL's Bakersfield Condors.

Sometimes these things start quietly. A practice line here, a comment there, a couple of Edmonton Oilers prospects skating together, and suddenly people start remembering the past.

The Edmonton Oilers seemingly spoil good players following their signing in Oil Country, according to one analyst's opinion.

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We’ve now (somehow) wrapped up another year as we enter 2026. After an extremely eventful year in the NHL and with the Edmonton Oilers, there are plenty of recaps and reviews to get through.

The Pacific Division-leading Edmonton Oilers (20-14-6, 46 points) open a three-game homestand on New Year’s Eve with three wins in their last four games as they host the streaky Boston Bruins (20-18-2,

The experiment is over. It took all of the fall and a couple of winter days, and now Tomasek will play for Färjestad BK in a starring role in one of the best leagues in Europe (SweHL). All that’s left is clearing NHL waivers, and that would appear to be a formality. The holdup is the NHL’s holiday roster freeze, which eases on Sunday.

Welcome to another edition of NHL rumours here at Last Word On Hockey. This edition will focus on rumours surrounding the Edmonton Oilers and their upcoming plans.

The Edmonton Oilers need a new winger to succeed where so many others in the past have failed. It’s the key to their season, the most important element (so long as the goalie issue has been solved) of Edmonton being able to fix the biggest problem on the team, the huge discrepancy between the performance of the top two and bottom two lines.