We have talked about Asher Barnett and Aidan Park already in prior articles, but there is another group of Oiler prospects that played collegiate hockey this season.

To be fair to both Isaac Howard and Quinn Hutson, each has already played NHL games.

The Edmonton Oilers have not been afraid to trade draft picks.

Well that was a mess of a game.

Some boob wrote this take in the series preview.

While I am certain the Oilers coaching staff would have preferred a less dramatic outcome, from a tactical perspective, game one of the first round series was as predicted.

There is nothing better than playoff hockey.

The slow spiral into season’s end has begun for hockey teams.

While there are areas where fans may critique the Edmonton Oilers, amateur player acquisition is definitely not one of them.

With the announcement of Leon Draisaitl missing the remainder of the regular season, the Oilers were left with 12 healthy forwards and 6 healthy defencmen.

The winds of hockey seasons ending are starting to blow as the calendar turns to March.

We don’t need to recite the statistics.

Ever since the Oilers sent off Pat Maroon in a trade, the Oilers have been looking for Pat Maroon.

I get the down arrows on Roby Jarventie sometimes.

The start of February begins the final run of the regular season for teams in all leagues.

This post may end up being a somber one for some, but sometimes it is the harsh reality of the NHL.

In a healthy NHL organization, teams should be able to pull up young players from the AHL to cover for injuries or to fill holes on the roster.

It has been written here and in many other publications that the transformation of the Edmonton Oilers prospect pool has been nothing short of stunning.

The OHL is the single best junior league in the world in terms of producing NHL players.

Quinn Hutson was a highly sought after collegiate UFA in the Spring of 2025.

The running joke about the Oilers defensive group for more than a decade had been the team couldn’t find right shot defenders and relied upon a plethora of left shooting defencemen.

You want prospects to kick down doors.

When Connor Clattenburg was called up for his NHL debut, some dummy (insert my picture here) had written literally the day before that Clattenburg had a NHL future, but it was a ways off.

The 2019/20 Bakersfield Condors were not a murders’ row of future NHL stars.

Come the middle of November, rookie professional prospects are pretty well settled.

Just about a month ago, I wrote a post regarding what I predicted the tactics would be for the Edmonton Oilers this season.

I have often written about the creative ways in which the current Edmonton Oilers management team have tried to reconstitute a very depleted prospect pool.

For me, the Bakersfield Condors were the most interesting part coming out of training camp in Edmonton.

As the calendar turns to November later this week, development programs for NHL teams are now in full swing.

Most people who follow me know I have a hang-up.

When Oilers training camp opened last month, the player I was most interested in watching wasn’t one of the Oilers from last season.

The Edmonton Oilers have a history with European players.

For those new to my writing, I do not only right on prospects and their development.

Last night in Seattle, the Oilers roster played against the most complete NHL lineup to date this pre-season.

With the winding down of the NHL training camp, the Oilers have been returning prospects to their respective developmental teams.

As Tuesday begins, the Edmonton Oilers enter the last week of training camp.

The signing this summer which most people thought would have NHL impact was David Tomasek.

We have seen this before without a doubt.

Just as the split squad games with Calgary are a training camp tradition, so is the “travel the same day, play in Winnipeg against a loaded roster” game.

Earlier today, I wrote about the split squad game in Calgary.

The start of game play for the Edmonton Oilers for the last few training camps has been a split squad series against the Calgary Flames.

The Edmonton Oilers Prospect Watch is a weekly review of prospects in the Edmonton Oilers organization published each Sunday.

Look, I am not going to lie.

Each September heralds the beginning of the new hockey season.

In another life, Noah Philp was my #1 Edmonton Oilers prospect.

As I wrote in the lead up to the Edmonton Oilers Top 20 Prospect series, the Edmonton Oilers have been very creative in the Stan Bowman era in talent procurement.

A note about this countdown.