Liam Reddox News

The Oilers don't have a time frame yet on Ales Hemsky's injury, but the fact they called a couple of guys up from Springfield tells you he won't be available for Edmonton's back-to-back games with San Jose and Vancouver, at least.

For most of last season, fellow guessperts in the media and in the seats objected that Liam Reddox was getting too much ice time.

The Chicago Blackhawks are sticking to their plan of becoming a better road team.

"We went through an incredible month here battling H1N1, concussions to major players like Souray, Staios and Hemsky.

The puck hits the back of the net behind Edmonton netminder Jeff Deslauriers to mark Chicago's second goal of the night during NHL action between the Oilers and Blackhawks at Edmonton's Rexall Place Saturday, November 21, 2009.

With almost as many players in the training room as on the ice Thursday, Pat Quinn wasn't sure he'd have enough guys to ice a team tonight.

The best the Edmonton Oilers could ice Thursday was a skeleton crew of 13 skaters as their injury situation goes from bad to worse to ridiculous.

In the middle of the week when all the sports media could talk about was how much the they had been losing as of late, the Edmonton Oilers ground out a gritty, come-from-behind win against the Northwest-division leaders, the Colorado Avalanche.

IN CONTROL: Edmonton Oilers left wing Liam Reddox takes possession of the puck from Atlanta Thrashers right wing Nik Antropov in the third period of their NHL hockey game in Atlanta, Georgia.

Wow: what a string of injuries. In addition to the already long string of injuries on the Oilers roster, today there was news that both Fernando Pisani and Patrick O'Sullivan have sustained injuries.

One of the advantages enjoyed by the Oilers early on in the season was that they could roll any of their four lines and expect some level of offensive spark and defensive competence.

Jakub Voracek scored the winner in the fourth round of the shootout to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night.

The Edmonton Oilers failed to take advantage of three full days of rest on the road as the dog-tired Atlanta Thrashers soldiered through their third game in about 90 hours for a 3-2 victory on Sunday afternoon.

Edmonton Oilers defenceman Dean Arsene skates in a pre-season game against the Florida Panthers at Rexall Place.

They have three points from their first three games, which is probably appropriate considering how the Edmonton Oilers have played so far on this road trip.

Pat Quinn is in a cranky mood, and it doesna t have anything to do with his righteous indignation at Buffalo Sabres winger Clarke MacArthur for his hit on Edmonton Oilers winger Liam Reddox in Wednesday nighta s game.

I went a little on Monday and yesterday and it felt pretty good so I wanted to have a good practice today and it felt good." That means Jhonas Enroth has been sent back to Portland and likely will play tonight in the arena against Rochester.

An error in judgment by Buffalo Sabres forward Clarke MacArthur opened the door, but the Edmonton Oilers weren't able to burst through it.

Edmonton left wing Liam Reddox was knocked out of the Oilers' 3-1 loss at Buffalo when he was rammed headfirst into the boards by Clarke MacArthur late in the third period.

Oilers come up short in Buffalo Nikolai Khabibulin of the Edmonton Oilers makes a save with Patrick Kaleta of the Buffalo Sabres looking for a chance at HSBC Arena on November 11, 2009 in Buffalo, New York.