Bruce Curlock

Edmonton Oilers Prospect Watch: February 19, 2026 I get the down arrows on Roby Jarventie sometimes.

The Edmonton Oilers have a history of high quality Finns on the team. Why not another. Also, the collegiate UFAs keep producing. More in my Oilers Prospect Report.

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Oilers Prospect Report: February 12, 2026 The start of February begins the final run of the regular season for teams in all leagues.

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Get To Know Them Quick! This post may end up being a somber one for some, but sometimes it is the harsh reality of the NHL.

Don't kid yourself, you are not working through lunch. Click the link and read about Oiler prospects in Bakersfield, Saskatoon and Kamloops.
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Meet The New Guy: Josh Samanski 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.

Some words on Josh Samanski and a wild stat about the Condors play recently.

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Edmonton Oilers Prospect Report: January 22, 2026 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.

Marjala. The next one from Bakersfield. Also, an under the radar collegiate D. This week's Oilers Prospect Report.

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

Wild Bill, another right shot D and Roby Jarventie all in this week's Edmonton Oilers Prospect Report.

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Oilers Weekly Prospect Report: Meet The New Guy Quinn Hutson was a highly sought after collegiate UFA in the Spring of 2025.

The Oilers bring another young guy up and he scores. More on him and who might be next.

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: Baby Leftorium 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.

Baby Leftorium

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: December 4, 2025 You want prospects to kick down doors.

Kicking down doors in Central California.

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Connor Clattenburg: NHL Real-Time Development 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 NHL development of Connor Clattenburg, shift by shift.

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: November 20, 2025 The 2019/20 Bakersfield Condors were not a murders’ row of future NHL stars.

Condors are everywhere! And it is a good thing!

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: November 13, 2025 Come the middle of November, rookie professional prospects are pretty well settled.

Other brothers and other Germans as well as Finns everywhere.

All in this edition of the Oilers Prospect Weekly Report.

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The Inverse is the Opposite: A Review of the Edmonton Oilers Tactical Game in October Just about a month ago, I wrote a post regarding what I predicted the tactics would be for the Edmonton Oilers this season.

The Oilers aren't winning a lot. That's ok, it is early. The offence however is a five alarm fire.

My early season tactical review below on what's going on is below.

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: November 6, 2025 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.

Here comes the Clattenburg Express.

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

Some thoughts on every Bakersfield Condor prospect from their play in October.

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: October 30, 2025 As the calendar turns to November later this week, development programs for NHL teams are now in full swing.

The Oilers may have a 40 goal scorer in junior. They also added another rookie D in Bakersfield. My off-season pick for surprise Oiler this season continues his hot start.

The Halloween edition of the Oilers Weekly Prospect Report is here.

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: October 23, 2025 Most people who follow me know I have a hang-up.

An RHD on an AHL contract, a California kid in Michigan and all the news and notes in this week's Oilers Prospect Report.

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: October 16, 2025 When Oilers training camp opened last month, the player I was most interested in watching wasn’t one of the Oilers from last season.

Five prospects who starred last week. 15 video clips. Lots of words.

This week's Oilers Prospect Weekly Report.

Enjoy.

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Since 1979

Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: October 9, 2025 The Edmonton Oilers have a history with European players.

The Oilers Prospect Report for the week of October 9th, 2025.

It's been a good week for Germans in the Oiler organization.

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Tactics and The Edmonton Oilers: A Regular Season Preview For those new to my writing, I do not only right on prospects and their development.

Here is the premiere edition of the Edmonton Oilers and their tactical play. This will be a regular feature during the season and will be done on a game by game basis in the playoffs. Hope you like.

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Oilers v. Kraken: A Prospect Review Last night in Seattle, the Oilers roster played against the most complete NHL lineup to date this pre-season.

Here is the second article of the day. 2 for the price 1! What a deal.

This is a prospect review of last night's Kraken-Oiler game. Enjoy.

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Oilers Prospect Weekly Report: October 2, 2025 With the winding down of the NHL training camp, the Oilers have been returning prospects to their respective developmental teams.

Today you will see two articles on Oiler prospects because the editor is a hard ass. No, not my wife...well...never mind.

The first is the weekly review of prospects that will come out every Thursday.

Here is your weekly report.

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Oilers Prospect Watch: The Last Week of Preseason As Tuesday begins, the Edmonton Oilers enter the last week of training camp.

I wrote a post on the Oiler prospects remaining in camp and what likely happens this last week of pre-season.

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Thank you Albrecht

Oilers Prospect Review: Jets v. Oilers The signing this summer which most people thought would have NHL impact was David Tomasek.

What's better than one right shot center performing well in the pre-season? You got it. Two. Nice night for Oiler prospects. A review of the Jets and the Oilers.

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Oilers Prospect Review: Kraken v. Oilers We have seen this before without a doubt.

It's Atro Leppanen's world. We are all just living in it.

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Oilers Prospect Report: Jets v. Oilers 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.

Atro Leppanen is making things interesting. More on him and some other prospects in Winnipeg last night.

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Prospect Report: Oilers v. Flames Split Squad(Edmonton) Earlier today, I wrote about the split squad game in Calgary.

Here is the review of the Edmonton part of the split squad games. A much less involved game than in Calgary. Still some prospects showed some tells.

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Prospect Report: Oilers v. Flames Split Squad(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.

I wrote some words on the prospects who stood out in Calgary last night for the Oilers. Part II on the Edmonton game is later today.

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