Team Sweden made a highly surpassing decision today to make Oilers veteran defenceman Mattias Ekholm a healthy scratch, and now they've explained it's for performance related reasons. Sweden ...

Mattias Ekholm was extremely ill in the last few weeks, possibly still feeling effects of sickness. Regardless of their reasons, both Oilers being scratched for today's game isn't a good sign for ...

One is truly elite, while the other is merely very good. A comparison of Predators defensemen Roman Josi and Mattias Ekholm reminds me of changing running shoes. I like my existing pair ...