Oil Change

The Edmonton Oilers make their move from the bottom of the league by selecting the 1st overall draft pick in Minnesota. The first episode of Oil Change looks at the Edmonton Oilers as they make their move from the bottom of the league by selecting the 1st overall draft pick in Minnesota. We go inside the boardroom with the management team as they sign new free agents . Then we go to training Camp to see who will crack the regular season roster. The episode ends with the season opener against Pittsburgh.

Episode two of Oil Change picks up the Oilers on the first big road trip of the year. They will barely be a dozen games into the season then, too soon to know how good (or bad) they might be, but this first long road trip of the year could deliver a critical bonding experience for an emerging young team.Will this be the trip that bonds this band of brothers? Only time will tell.

Although the Oilers’ game to game play and win-loss record remain paramount, this episode, airing when it does near the start of the festive season, also gives us a chance to get to know some of the players a little bit better away from the rink – perhaps decorating a Christmas tree, shopping for their kids or making community appearances. Oil Change, Aquila Productions’ popular and critically-acclaimed documentary series about the Oilers’ quest to go from bottom feeder to championship contender comes to Citytv this year. Using state-of-the -art, high-definition video cameras and audio-recording equipment, the Aquila follow the team closely on the ice at practice and during the heat of games, in the dressing room, training rooms and coaches’ offices before and after games, away from the rink at home, out in the local community and on the road around the league. We will see and hear the Oilers with their game faces on, with their hearts on their sleeves, and with their guards down during good times and bad alike.

The fourth episode of Oil Change is about a long, cold winter’s stretch of tough games. There is a very good chance that those games after Christmas through January will make or break the Oilers’ chances of getting into the playoffs. And they will also certainly help inform management’s decisions about what to do, or not do, with the NHL’s trade deadline fast approaching.Although the Oilers’ game to game play and win-loss record remain paramount, this episode, airing when it does near the start of the festive season, also gives us a chance to get to know some of the players a little bit better away from the rink – perhaps decorating a Christmas tree, shopping for their kids or making community appearances. ****Oil Change, Aquila Productions’ popular and critically-acclaimed documentary series about the Oilers’ quest to go from bottom feeder to championship contender comes to Citytv this year. Using state-of-the -art, high-definition video cameras and audio-recording equipment, the Aquila follow the team closely on the ice at practice and during the heat of games, in the dressing room, training rooms and coaches’ offices before and after games, away from the rink at home, out in the local community and on the road around the league. We will see and hear the Oilers with their game faces on, with their hearts on their sleeves, and with their guards down during good times and bad alike.

This episode of Oil Change will follow the Oilers through the 2012 NHL trade deadline. Oil Change is right there with Tambellini and his management team as the deals go down in the Oilers war room with cameras rolling when intense, last-minute negotiations between Tambellini and the brass of other teams go down. We'll also follow the fall out of those trades on the team. ****Oil Change, Aquila Productions’ popular and critically-acclaimed documentary series about the Oilers’ quest to go from bottom feeder to championship contender comes to Citytv this year. Using state-of-the -art, high-definition video cameras and audio-recording equipment, the Aquila follow the team closely on the ice at practice and during the heat of games, in the dressing room, training rooms and coaches’ offices before and after games, away from the rink at home, out in the local community and on the road around the league. We will see and hear the Oilers with their game faces on, with their hearts on their sleeves, and with their guards down during good times and bad alike.

The final episode of Oil Change follows the Edmonton Oilers through the last month of the 2011-12 NHL season. The young Oilers know they will not make the playoffs, but with head coach Tom Renney cracking the whip they’re determined to finish strong, earn respect around the league for their talent and work ethic, and lay important groundwork on the road to becoming a playoff team next season. Highlights of this episode include the Oilers’ second straight victory over Calgary, a raucous Battle of Alberta at Rexall Place that hurts the Flames’ own flickering chances of securing a spot in the playoffs. From there the Oilers take to the road, capturing seven of eight possible points against Nashville, Tampa Bay, Florida and Columbus in an impressive swing through the American southeast. A victory over Nashville is highlighted by veteran Ales Hemsky’s very first NHL hat trick. In a tough shoot-out loss against the Lightning we see Nikolai Khabibulin play his first game in Tampa Bay since he led that team to the Stanley Cup in 2004. Late season injuries to star Taylor Hall and other Oiler players force another round of call-ups from the team’s AHL-leading farm club in Oklahoma City. This time it’s centre Chris Vandevelde and power forward Teemu Hartikainen. Both young Barons impress with the big club -- Vandevelde scoring his first NHL goal in a victory over Columbus and Hartikainen netting a pair in a win against Anaheim. A much different injury-related feel-good story documents the long, painstaking but ultimately successful rehab of promising rookie defenseman Taylor Fedun. Fedun returns to full contact practice with the Oilers six months after the devastating broken leg he suffered on an icing call race in a pre-season game last fall. Viewers will also get head amateur scout Stu MacGregor’s assessment of first-round prospects on the Oilers’ radar for the NHL Entry Draft in June, veteran defenseman Andy Sutton’s take on the impressive progress