Edmonton Oilers

[Gronk!]

RELEASE: Oilers to host Flames in 2023 Heritage Classic

Battle of Alberta heads to Commonwealth Stadium 20 years after Edmonton made history by hosting the NHL's first regular season outdoor game

www.nhl.com

EDMONTON, AB - The Battle of Alberta is headed outdoors next October as the National Hockey League announced Saturday the 2023 Tim Hortons Heritage Classic will feature the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames on October 29, 2023 at Commonwealth Stadium. The regular season game will be broadcast exclusively on Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada.

The Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic will be returning to Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium, celebrating the 20-year anniversary of hosting the first-ever NHL regular season outdoor game, the 2003 NHL Heritage Classic, a 4-3 win for the Montreal Canadiens over the Oilers in front of 57,167 fans on Nov. 22, 2003. Including that game, there have been 35 regular season outdoor games played to date, attended by 1,755,438 fans.

The Oilers-Flames outdoor matchup will mark the seventh NHL Heritage Classic, which includes the inaugural game in Edmonton (2003), as well as games in Calgary (2011), Vancouver (2014), Winnipeg (2016), Regina (2019) and Hamilton (2022). It will be the 38th regular season outdoor contest, with the 2023 Discover NHL Winter Classic and 2023 Navy Federal Credit Union Stadium Series scheduled to be played on Jan. 2 and Feb. 18, respectively.
The 2023 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic will showcase several of the top players in the NHL, highlighted by this season's scoring leaders Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl of the Oilers, as well as high-scoring forwards Jonathan Huberdeau and Nazem Kadri of the Flames.

The Oilers will be making their third appearance in an NHL regular season outdoor game. In addition to the inaugural NHL Heritage Classic on Nov. 22, 2003, the Oilers defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-0 in the 2016 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic, in front of 33,240 fans at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg.

The Flames will also be playing in their third NHL regular season outdoor game. Calgary defeated the Montreal Canadiens at McMahon Stadium at the 2011 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic by a score of 4-0, in front of more than 41,000 fans. In the 2019 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic, the Flames were defeated 2-1 in overtime by the Winnipeg Jets, in front of 33,518 fans at Mosaic Stadium in Regina.

Additional details for the 2023 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic, including ticketing information, the game's start time and U.S. broadcast information, will be announced when available.

 

[IanO]

Hot goaltender?

 

[The_Cat]

I hope Kostin's okay.

 

[IanO]

4 unanswered and horrible D-zone play that left Stu out to dry.

We had 4 Oilers standing in front and not one took their guy coming in... brutal.

Our play between our hash and centre is getting worse, not better.

 

[Gronk!]

Clearly they're tanking for Connor Bedard

 

[IanO]

A good amount of folks involved last night and tighter game which is nice to see.

 

[Glenco]

If only they could get the puck out of their own end.

 

[IanO]

Oilers looking very average tonight, but Hyman and Skinner are ON!

Hyman with his 19th and 20th... will he get his hatty?!?!?!

 

[IanO]

Another point given up with 3 unanswered goals.

Not
Good
Enough

I'm trying to listen to the language various Oilers staff and player personnel are using to gauge their response to these kinds of loses/play and am getting a bit tired of JWood making excuses and 'you know', better luck next time attitude. While calm, cool and collected is are good traits, I rarely hear any urgency from JW or accountability.

They then interview Skinner and his first response is that he is frustrated and they have to do better as a team.

 

[MacLac]

Another point given up with 3 unanswered goals.

Not
Good
Enough

I'm trying to listen to the language various Oilers staff and player personnel are using to gauge their response to these kinds of loses/play and am getting a bit tired of JWood making excuses and 'you know', better luck next time attitude. While calm, cool and collected is are good traits, I rarely hear any urgency from JW or accountability.

They then interview Skinner and his first response is that he is frustrated and they have to do better as a team.

Thank Gawd Kane’r is on a week to week now rather then from a month to month……

 

[IanO]

Not. Good. Enough.

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[JNO1]

^ This team/organization just seems to have no desire to take the next step in its development - to become a top 4-8 team in the league and a legitimate Stanley Cup threat. The comfort or satisfaction they seem to have with mediocrity is getting really old for me. They should be battling Vegas for #1 in the Pacific. Hoping they can find the hunger in the last half of the season and then carry over in to the playoffs.

 

[archited]

They have a plan and it is working.

 

[kcantor]

^

if the plan is based on consistently working on the right things successfully, it isn't working.

and if that isn't the plan, it probably should be.

they managed to do that during the second half of last season and through the playoffs, at least based on results and kane was a bigger part of that than anyone likely anticipated - or even hoped for - although it was certainly due to more than just kane.

so far this year however, the team seems to have regressed to prior form, albeit without kane for the most part.

they have been 14 - 11 - 3 since his injury - in a game that they won - and i think that flatters their play on too many occasions. leading up to the game in which he was injured, they were 6 - 6. assuming the first 12 games were a bit of an anomaly - primarily particularly in the net - perhaps all that is needed is for kane to return with the same impact that he brought last year.

it's just that even without kane this is still a team that has arguably the two best players on the planet and another half dozen or so first round picks on their roster. they should be in a better place than simply battling for a wild-card playoff spot.

i sometimes think this is a team that is simply too fragile as a result of spending too many years basking in the long-gone glory years with management and ownership - and to some degree fans - hoping it would simply rub off.

 

[The_Cat]

One challenge could be the youth on defense - Bouchard, Broberg and Niemolainen. They need more time.