Soups on Hockey

On Pace for 82-0

Well, would you look at this.  I’m back baby!  Officially, the first blog I’ve written since January.  I did post my season prognostications piece I had written before the season began, but the website still wasn’t back up and running at the time.  Did you miss me?  I bet you did.  It’s not as if there are many other blogs you can read.  I’m one of the very few going, so thankfully for your sake…

Welcome to the 2021-22 season!  I won’t mess around with some long, drawn-out opening write-up.  It’s been a long time, let’s see if I remember how to do this!   * Wildcard team   Pacific 1. Edmonton – I am picking who will finish first in the division in the regular season.  Don’t confuse this with a playoff prediction.   2. Vegas – I doubt they’ll care about where they finish in the division,…

Now that we know where the Oilers are picking in the draft, let's take a look at what all is in the system and who they might add with the 8th pick

What in the hell….I wrote a new blog?!?!  Not only that, this is the 2nd one I’m putting out today!  Maybe some day I’ll be able to get some consistency in my game…no wonder I relate to the Oilers so well…

  This is one that is particularly overdue.  The last time I got around to doing an Oilers top prospect list, I was on a bit of an island trying to tell people how the system had improved. …

Did everyone see my 18-19 season prognostications piece?!  You didn’t?!?  Good…don’t….

  I guess I should start this off by saying, I’m back!  First blog I’ve wrote since January, and that one was the first I had written since early December.  Life got in the way, started wondering why I was doing this for pretty much no reason at this point in my life (to be really honest), but the playoffs are…

What If...The Oilers Stuck with Craig MacTavish? Well why don't you read this and find out?!

So here is a dirty little secret about me:…well, it’s not actually a dirty secret, and I’m not sure it’s anything scandalous in general.  But here it is: I’ve been wanting to do a “What If” blog for a long time now.  There have been lot’s that I started.  Gretzky not been dealt, Lemieux at the 98 Olympics, Chris Pronger never asked for a trade, the Penguins taken Jonathan Toews, there are a lot…

This is my opinion on how the league stacks up, so do your part and read it so you can tell me what a moron I am

A day late, and really I should have done this on Saturday.  Don’t worry, I feel all the shame.  We’re still at a point in the season where it’s difficult to tell who is what.  So I did tiering this time around and basically you can put the teams in each tier in any order you please and I wouldn’t really argue with you.

  My power rankings are done by me ranking the teams I like best to win the…

Soups on Hockey Ep. 9

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Big name/average player trade, Sabres, Nylander, Flames, and of course the roller coaster that is the Oilers this edition of Hot Takes

It’s been a few weeks I’ve gotten to a Hot Takes piece.  Also been a few weeks since I got to a Soups on HOCKEY podcast.  Little busy, little sick, little too much Oilers news has taken away from both.  But now, I’m back.  In pog form.  And there is PLENTY to talk about.  Of course as always I will get to the Oilers, but I have a lot to cover here.  I’ll start off with the somewhat significant…

Could it be that the Oilers finally did something RIGHT?! I think so. I believe McLellan to Hitch is a better move than most will admit

Hmmm, I see I managed to get pictures which are both photo bombed by Drake Caggiula.  I prefer Caggiula with Hitch simply so I can call them “Drake and the fat man”.  Used that line talking to one of my buddies the other night and if he’s reading this now he’s thinking “get a new joke Campbell you fucking moron”.  Completely justified.

  Can I be honest about something?  I wasn’t at all surprised…

Forget McLellan, Chiarelli, the old boys club. The ACTUAL issue for the Oilers is Daryl Katz, & if he doesn't start cleaning up his act soon he'll run the risk of losing his best player

Todd McLellan got on the plane yesterday, and is in San Jose along with the rest of the Edmonton Oilers as we start our day today.  I’m not sure I’ve ever felt so sick about someone keeping their job then I was with this.  I’m not a bad person and don’t wish for anyone to lose their job, but it has just become crystal clear that Todd McLellan isn’t too good of a coach by NHL standards and maybe…

Even if you aren't a hockey fan, the opening to this might be worth the click. Then I talk Leafs, Nylander, refs, and the Oilers so you know...the usual #playingthehits

There is a Deep Blue Sea 2?!?  What was the need for a 2nd one?!  When people used to bitch about how Hollywood had no original idea’s left, I kind of rolled my eyes.  But when Deep Blue Sea gets a sequel…that’s where I draw the line!  I went and saw that movie twice in the theatre.  Once was my buddy going on a bit of a blind date with this girl and I tagged along because I knew both of them,…

Don't you HATE power rankings?! So ridiculous! By the way, check out my new power rankings!

Uhhhhhhh, power rankings.  I’m not sure that there is anything more ridiculous than power rankings.  In theory, they should be great.  But in reality, nobody seems to do them right.  You’ll see major websites have power rankings done weekly, and essentially they just look at what a team did during the week.  WHAT?!?  So if you beat up on Arizona, Detroit and Ottawa one week you’re a good team?!? …

Preds and Lightning good, Sabres and Canucks surprising, Kings and Ducks bad, and the Oilers have been all of those which I'll cover in Hot Takes

This can’t be right.  Full disclosure I’m doing a little bit of looking around right now trying to think of what the best topics are to talk about this week, and I look at the Tampa/Chicago boxscore from last night, Tampa had 33 shots in the 2nd?!?!?!  Not in the GAME, not a game, not, not the game that I die for.  We talkin’ bout the SECOND.  That’s what we talkin’ ’bout.  The second.  33 shots…

"Tampa Bay is one of the best drafting teams in the NHL because they just draft skill and don't care about size". Yeah...that's a lie

I feel my stuff can get stale.  I don’t feel at all as though I’m a great, or even good writer.  I feel as though I might have interesting insight, but just as a pure writer I’m not good and haven’t improved all that much since I started doing this.  One thing I feel I could do to offset that is speak on more topics that I can not only give interesting insight/opinions on, but topics that don’t…