Savoie more than held his own among top-flight AHL rookies at 20 over the last decade. He was also the best in the group at even-strength outscoring at age 20. His 55-30 edge gave the Condors a 65 percent even-strength goal share while Savoie was on the ice. Here are the numbers for those same 20-year-old forwards in their rookie seasons.

This in from NHL insiders Elliotte Friedman, Pierre Lebrun and Bob Stauffer, all three of them on Stauffer’s show Oilers Now pooh-poohing the notion that Oilers GM Stan Bowman will be trading for a goallie any time soon.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for Zach Hyman. According to reporter Tony Brar, the Edmonton Oilers will activate Hyman this weekend, and he’ll make his season debut against the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.

Our Oilers vs. Flyers predictions expect a bounceback performance from Stuart Skinner and the Edmonton defense.

“We’re not even close,” Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. “There’s a team that’s playing really well, and we’re not. That’s just not one game. If you look at the last five weeks, they’ve been going pretty well. We haven’t. Right now, we’ve got a lot of work to do.”

This in from top NHL analyst Ray Ferraro of ESPN and Sportsnet, his take that the Edmonton Oilers have obvious problems to fix if they’re going to be a Stanley Cup contender but no easy way to fix them.

Already the NHL’s official supply chain partner, it makes the distributor the preferred MRO supply partner of Rogers Place in Edmonton.