Sam Gagner News

The Edmonton Oilers signed centre Shawn Horcoff to a whopper of an extension on Wednesday.

The Edmonton Oilers certainly received the best player in the Stoll and Greene for Lubomir Visnovsky trade.

Matthew Barnaby Jr. became a fan of the Edmonton Oilers when he saw YouTube footage of Oilers rising star Sam Gagner.

Erik Cole never felt the need for a fresh start, but he's nonetheless happy to be getting one in Edmonton.

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If NHL teams only assessed a hockey player's head, Cody Hodgson may have gone No.

Stats: GP:70 G 42 A33 Pts 75 PIMS 20. The Skinny: He's not very big and isn't as fast as a lot of effective small players are, but he's a natural born scorer.

"He's got a sparkle in his eye. He's pretty excited about what happened here this week," said Kevin Lowe.

It's only fitting that the Edmonton Oilers drafted Regina sniper Jordan Eberle - after all, he drafted them a long time ago.

From an Edmonton-centric perspective, it was a slam dunk that Glenn Anderson would get into the Hockey Hall of Fame one day.

He managed to get through the annual pre-draft scout meetings, and he made it to Scotiabank Place, but then Brad Davis scanned the Edmonton Oilers draft table.

Dave Gagner lost an agent and gained a boss. When old friend Mike Gillis phoned Gagner in April to tell him he'd no longer be able to represent Gagner's son, Sam, who plays for the Edmonton Oilers, the ...

If Patrick LaForge is in fact dead president walking, and there are as many reasons to believe it or not today as four months ago, then he'll stride out the door with head high and job done.

There's something to be said for growing up in a hockey environment -- in the dressing room of an NHL team and having the bloodlines of a famous father to help with the right words.

It's the question he hears most often and the hardest one to answer. "Why aren't you in the NHL," former London Knights star and 2005-06 Canadian Hockey League scoring champ Rob Schremp said.

Having already harvested Sam Gagner from last year's crop, the Edmonton Oilers can already call the 2007 NHL entry draft a smashing success.

Taylor Chorney thought long and hard, wrestled many a pro and con, about whether or not to leave school a year early and sign with the Oilers, but the deciding factor might have been the old "If everyone else ...

HALIFAXEric Staal, the second-line centre on Team Canada's entry here at the world championship, has left the team to return to Thunder Bay for his grandfather's funeral.

Team Canada forward Eric Staal has left the world hockey championship in Halifax to attend the funeral of his grandfather. via Vancouver Sun

“I just got, obviously, a little anxious”

For 45 minutes, Sam Gagner stared at the ice from the Team Canada bench. The view couldn't have been much more appealing than the one offered by his previous perch in the press box. via Edmonton Journal