2010 NHL Entry Draft LIVE *TweetCast*

Welcome to the LIVE *TweetCast* brought to you by Oilers Jambalaya and OilFieldHockey.com.

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Thanks for joining us here today! HISTORY IN THE MAKING

WOW! What A Day For The Fans Of The Oilers

Today -- which started out as boring and lame -- turned out to be really exciting for all the fans of Edmonton Oilers.

First it started out with a Bruins/Panthers trade which to me, means that the Oilers will be taking Taylor Hall. With acquiring Nathan Horton and parting ways with the #15 pick, any hope of getting that pick is out the window (that's what I was hoping for). Back to Hall. It's also quite clear now that the Bruins have picked up a good solid winger in Horton, they seem to be preparing for drafting a center. And that's not Taylor Hall. Maybe I am wrong here, but I get the feeling the Oilers will take Hall.

Then I'm told that Steve Tambellini is going to have a press conference at noon. I figured I'd look around to see what it's about and I came across an article by the Edmonton Journal that was saying basically that Tambo was just going to talk about heading to the draft today and what the Oilers have planned for the future. So like a moron I'm telling people it's no big deal. No huge news today.

BAM! Pat Quinn has stepped down as head coach of the Oilers and Tom Renney is now the coach of the Oilers. So much for no news.



My mind has been blown.

I really didn't mind Pat Quinn as coach and I figured he'd be back next season. Quinn just had some really bad things happen to this team this year and I didn't really blame him for the failure. I did however blame him for a few other things he did but I won't get into it again. Thanks for your great quotes Pat. I'm going to miss you.



Listening to Pat Quinn ( http://oilers.nhl.com/club/podcastplayer.htm?pid=98&iid=23047 ) talk about the situation he made it clear that he was not happy about not returning as coach next season. He went on to say that he was looking forward to coaching two 19 year olds that he has coached before. Who's that you ask? Well one guy is Jordan Eberle. The other? My money is on Taylor Hall. There is no other kid in the Oilers system that Quinn has coached before other than those two. So if it's NOT Hall, who is it?

The next big shocker for me was opening the mail today. Our friend Scott from OilFieldHockey.com sent me a puck from the OKC Barons name reveal. How cool is that?

Thanks Scott for this, it's going to be great to add to the collection. Is this the first Barons merchandise in Alberta? Maybe... but I doubt it.

Here is a audio link for the new Oil Change documentary preview if you still need something more to do.

http://oilers.nhl.com/club/podcastplayer.htm?pid=98&iid=23038

What a day...

-Written by Smokin' Ray-

Edmonton Oilers / Who's On Your All Time Team?

I was super bored today and I had a lot of time to let my mind wander. I started to think about what my all time Edmonton Oilers team would look like and I kind of got excited. All the line combos a person can work out is crazy. There is just so many options. So I figured I would do a post on who I would choose for my all time Oilers team. Past and Present.

Smyth Gretzky Kurri
Anderson Messier Hemsky
Tikkanen MacTavish Simpson
Laraque Linesman Semenko
Honorable Mentions: Buchberger, Klima, Weight,

Coffey Lowe
Beukeboom Huddy
McSorley Ulanov
Honorable Mentions: Pronger, Visnovsky, Gregg, S. Smith, Niinimaa

Fuhr
Ranford
Honorable Mentions: Roloson, Joseph

Does my team/lines look like yours would? Probably not right? Feel free to post yours below.

-Written by Smokin' Ray-

Barons' Radio Home

The Oklahoma City Barons have reached an agreement with Clear Channel Communications to broadcast the games on 96.1 FM KXY. The 3 year agreement includes that the games will be broadcast on the Internet from KXY.com. No word on who the voice of the Barons will be for the broadcast.

Prospects to Play in Tournament

The Oilers announced that their prospects will partake in a Prospect Camp, that the Vancouver Canucks will be hosting in Penticton, British Columbia. The tournament will start on September 12, and go through September 16th.The Tournament Camp will feature the top prospects from the Oilers organization, and 4 other NHL teams. The Tournament will feature a round-robin style format during a five day period. The Oilers' prospects will play on Sept 12th at 6pm(CDT), Sept 14th and 15th at 9:30pm(CDT). The Tournament will be broadcast live on the internet from oilers.nhl.com.Oilfieldhockey.com and Oilers Jambalaya will be hosting a live tweetcast for the entire week of the tournament. The tweetcast will feature tweets from the Edmonton Oilers, Oilers Jambalaya, Oilfieldhockey.com, and many more.