Edmonton Oilers
Were Edmonton police delaying bail-hearing paperwork to watch the Oilers?
An affidavit filed in court strongly suggests it, as the province defends itself against claims it’s been holding suspects too long without giving them a shot at bail
In an Edmonton divorce, who gets custody of the Oilers tickets?
A couple embroiled in divorce proceedings in Edmonton are arguing over suddenly valuable property: Oilers seats
In arena talks, Calgary Flames owners spectacularly misread the shot
Calgarians are self-confident enough not to worry that the NHL would abandon them. And unlike Edmonton, the city doesn’t need an arena to revitalize its downtown core
Edmonton vs. Calgary: A hockey rivalry, but also more than that
Edmonton, armed with the NHL’s next prodigy and a plan to transform downtown, is fully wrapping its civic identity in its Oilers. Not so much in Calgary.
The worst team in hockey wins yet again
Colby Cosh on why the Oilers’ off-ice luck hasn’t brought much on-ice success
The Five Hole: Yakupov a league leader in one category
The five things you need to know about hockey if you don’t need to know everything about hockey
The Edmonton Oilers, and the art of falling apart
Being an Oiler fan is an exercise in existential ennui. How can one NHL team be this bad for this long?
How the fiscal cliff might give Canada’s NHL teams a boost
Alberta now the most tax-friendly
The last of the NHL labour wars
Colby Cosh on what hockey can learn from the NBA
One big cheque from Daryl Katz, many bigger questions in Edmonton
The Oilers’ owner faces a probe over his gift to the Alberta Tories
More Katz mega-donation headaches?
The Globe and Mail, by means of outstanding spadework, has accounted for the particulars of all of the $430,000 donated to the Alberta Progressive Conservative party in its hour of electoral need by Edmonton Oilers owner and pharmacy magnate Daryl Katz. Actually, David Ebner and Dawn Walton traced the $430,000 and then some—others with close business relationships to Katz, it turns out, contributed to the PC kitty. But even the $430,000 donated this spring, supposedly in the form of a single cheque, represents more than a quarter of the cash raised by the Tories during the 2012 election period. The party managed to raise just $1.6 million—while spending almost $4.7 million protecting its flanks from the upstart Wildrose Party.