Dustin Penner News

Centre Shawn Horcoff leads Oilers forwards in average ice time per game and is second to Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby in faceoffs taken this season.

Despite this being their last home game before going on the road for five games -- where they have just one win -- the Oilers played with little emotion, no jump and created few scoring chances.

When general manager Brian Burke announced the list of 34 players that would be invited to the U.S. Olympic team's summer orientation camp, he braced himself for the inevitable backlash.

Desperate for a win, the New Yor Rangers took advantage of the Edmonton Oilers' struggling offence.

Patrick O'Sullivan of the Edmonton Oilers is stopped in the first period of Monday's NHL game at Nassau Coliseum by New York Islanders goaltender Dwayne Roloson.

The phone rang and it was Dustin Penner at the other end of the line. Actually, as it turns out, it was Ron Burgundy.

Edmonton Oilers forward Dustin Penner. Photograph by: Bruce Edwards, edmontonjournal.com Journal Hall of Fame hockey writer Jim Matheson answers your questions on the NHL ... Q: Can you tell me the names of the three players who were drafted by the Anaheim Ducks with the Dustin Penner restricted free agency compensation award of a first-, ...

One October surprise looks like it's coming down to earth, while another continues to soar.

Heading into tonight's Game of the Week , here's a look at some facts and figures, courtesy of our Stats & Information gurus.

Zdeno Chara, the Boston Bruins control tower, was all business. Armed with his 65-inch Easton stick, the six-foot-nine defenceman negated the Edmonton Oilers top line so efficiently that head coach Pat Quinn even tried separating Ales Hemsky and Dustin Penner to try giving one of his two point-getters some room.

The inconsistent Boston Bruins will try to get something going today, when they host the Edmonton Oilers in this afternoon's battle at TD Garden.

This flu stuff has a way of mutating. Just when it looked like the Edmonton Oilers had solved their can't-score-itis, they contracted can't-hold-onto-a-lead-itis. A game that looked like it was in the bag had to go to a shootout before the Oilers escaped with a 6-5 win over the Detroit Red Wings.

Pat Quinn, if you didn't know better, could have been viewed as a genius last night.

Patrick O'Sullivan beat Jimmy Howard with a wrist shot in the third round of a shootout, and Nikolai Khabibulin stopped Henrik Zetterberg on Detroit's final attempt to give the Edmonton Oilers a 6-5 victory Thursday night.

Keeping the opposition off the scoreboard has been the Detroit Red Wings ' biggest issue during their surprisingly mediocre start.

Edmonton Oilers' defenceman Ladislav Smid contracted the H1N1 virus about two weeks, but didn't know he had it until Tuesday.

It doesn't matter to Kevin Bieksa that the Toronto Maple Leafs remain winless this NHL season.

Vancouver Canucks' Roberto Luongo, center, makes the save as Edmonton Oilers' Dustin Penner, left, looks for the rebound as Edmonton Oilers' Ales Hemsky, right, of the Czech Republic, looks on during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia on Sunday, Oct.

It hasn't always been smooth since Dustin Penner signed a four-year deal worth $21.25 million to join the Edmonton Oilers, but he's clicking under new coach Pat Burns.

The more players the Vancouver Canucks lose to injury, the better star goalie Roberto Luongo seems to get.