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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010The Team Today Archives - VIDEO INTERVIEWS Tambellini comments on Dubnyk, the goalie situation, potential trades - Moreau Quinn carries the torch Steve Tambellini Pat Quinn Sheldon Souray Shawn Horcoff Ethan Moreau On Wednesday morning, the Oilers announced that goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin . -We can't worry about who's here and who's not here. The guys who are afl football results playing each and every night just have to keep getting better individually and as a team we'll keep trying to grow. There's no sense worrying about who we don't have.- Souray is familiar with Khabibulin's situation, having gone down with a season-ending injury in his first year with the Oilers. -It happened to me my first year too,- Souray said. -You want to go out and prove yourself. He's apro afl football results ving goaltender who was winning us some games singlehandedly earlier in the year. It's a big loss but we haven't had him for some time now.- Centre Shawn Horcoff TAMBELLINI WEIGHS IN QUINN CARRIES THE TORCH OILERS vs PREDATORS: Tom Gilbert, Robert Nilsson, Andrew Cogliano, Assistant Coach Wayne Fleming - Head Coach Pat Quinn on tonight's game POST-GAME VIDEO Comments from Sheldon afl football results Souray, JF Jacques, Steve Staios, Dustin Penner, Devan Dubnyk - Pat Quinn Oilers vs. Predators The Oilers took to the ice for morning skate shortly after 10am, but without Gilbert Brule should skate with Patrick O'Sullivan and Ryan Potulny Tonight's game vs. Nashville will be the Oilers first opportunity to employ what they've learned at this past weekend's -mini-camp.- The Oilers participated afl football results in intense video, off-ice, and on-ice sessions, and Quinn hopes that the efforts pay off in tighter systems and, ultimately, a win. -The system is our guideline,- Quinn said. -That's your plan for success. When you give up the plan you haven't got much of a chance because that's when ad-libs start and excuses start and failure starts. We have been a team that's given up the plan on a lot of ni afl football results ghts when we've met adversity out there. Every team, 30 teams, hit adversity in very game and we aren't the team that has been able to fight through it.- Defenceman Tom Gilbert NASHVILLE 5 - EDMONTON 3 Although the Oilers dominated the shot clock and finished with an impressive 41 attempts, the club struggled early in net and was unable to crack Predators' goalie Pekka Rinne until the end afl football results of the game. The late surge was too little, too late and Edmonton dropped a 5-3 decision to Nashville Tuesday night. Ryan PotulnyDustin Penner earned Edmonton's three goals, while goalie Devan Dubnyk closed the game with 13 saves. Author: Jen Sharpe | edmontonoilers.com MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2010The Team Today Archives - VIDEO INTERVIEWS Comments from Lubomir Visnovsky, Denis Grebesh afl football results kov - Pat Quinn Marc Pouliot injury update Denis Grebeshkov Marc Pouliot Lubomir Visnovsky Pat Quinn After taking a break from the ice Sunday, the Oilers were back at Rexall Place Monday for a normal practice. Friday and Saturday, the team conducted a -mini-camp- which included plenty of off-ice workouts, video sessions, and on-ice drills. Players and coaches spoke positively about the weekend afl football results but the club will have to wait until Tuesday night to see if the efforts pay off in a win. -They worked hard,- Head Coach Pat Quinn said after practice. -I haven't had much to gripe about in that area because they do practice and they're trying hard to make themselves better. Hopefully we can take that into the game.- -Four days isn't going to make a major difference I don't think, because afl football results we have some room to go as far as becoming a team. But maybe we've made some steps that way. We hopefully can sustain our game for a longer period of time than we have in many of them.- Denis Grebeshkov feels that the team accomplished what it wanted over the weekend. -We had a few meetings during that mini-camp, we watched a lot of videos, and the coaches want us to be on the same page. That w afl football results as the point of that mini-camp. So I guess we learned a lot during those two or three days and all we have to do is show that during the game,- the defenceman said. According to Quinn, the Oil will try to play a simple game Tuesday night. -We're going to play by the old maxim of the one shift, one period, let's just see if we can get where we're doing little things well and maybe big things afl football results will happen,- he said. -You can't forget that we're on the journey and the journey hasn't gone the way we planned or hoped for.- NEXT STEPS UNCLEAR FOR POULIOT The season hasn't gone as planned for many Oilers, and chief among them is Marc Pouliot. The Oilers forward has been recovering from a sports hernia since the beginning of the season, and although he feels he is ready to play, he says afl football results he isn't rushing things. -It's been four months and I've played zero games yet so I'm looking forward to it obviously. But at the same time, when I start playing I want to play until the end of the season. I don't want to go back to the injury so I'm going to take my time in that sense.- Some of that time may be spent in a conditioning stint with the team's AHL affiliate, the Springfield Fa afl football results lcons. -I don't know what's going to happen with me in the future,- Pouliot admitted. -I might get a couple games down or whatever but I feel really good right now . . . I'm just practicing with the team right now, getting some physical contact and I'm going to probably have a chat with the coach and GM to see what's going on with me in the future.- VISNOVSKY: -I'M READY TO PLAY- Select s afl football results eats are available for the Oilers-Predators game Tuesday, January 11th. Author: Jen Sharpe | edmontonoilers.com SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010The Team Today Archives - VIDEO INTERVIEWS Comments from Lubomir Visonvsky, Jason Strudwick, Sam Gagner and Associate Coach Tom RenneyMike Comrie injury update Tom Renney Jason Strudwick Lubomir Visnovsky Sam Gagner Mike Comrie Oilers play s afl football results ome 3-on-3 Prior to the Oilers taking the ice on the second of day of Oilers Mini-Camp, Mike Comrie Defenceman Lubomir Visnovsky had an interesting observation on the Mini-Camp, remarking that the team's approach is for this to be a whole new season starting this Tuesday against the Nashville Predators. feels he's ready to go for Tuesday. -I feel very good. The coach gave me time for my recover afl football results y and my ankle is okay. Every practice I feel better and better.- Associate Coach Tom Renney STRUDWICK SHINES IN THREE-ON-THREE If there were three stars announced following the three-on-three scrimmage, the first star would have been defenceman Jason Strudwick -It's a really fun game. I love playing it, I've been playing it a long time and I know some ways to cheat and get open,- Strudwick afl football results remarked. -Maybe that's the deal. You just take the pressure off and let him go play and he's an offensive wunderkind. He was unbelievable out there, don't tell him I said that though,- joked Sam Gagner-Too bad we couldn't come out with the win.- afl football results
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