Edmonton Oilers' forward Jeff Skinner has over 1,000 NHL games under his belt, but he is in uncharted territory right now.

He also endured a few rocky seasons with the Sabres that ended in him being bought out. In his first year with the Edmonton Oilers, he’s gone from a high-profile free-agent signee to someone struggling to get into the lineup.

It has not been the type of season that the Edmonton Oilers had envisioned for free-agent signing Jeff Skinner.

How far down the Oilers' pecking order has Skinner dropped? He played 13:34 in Thursday's 6-2 win over Vancouver − and that was his biggest ice time total since Dec. 3.

The Edmonton Oilers are giving consistent ice time to veteran forward Mattias Janmark, and it's now coming at the detriment of playing their best possible lineup.

The Edmonton Oilers are finding themselves in a bind with forward Jeff Skinner, taking up $3M of cap space yet not being used in the lineup at all. The last three games in a row, the Oilers have scratched the 32-year-old veteran of over 1,000 games. A trade seems like the only path forward for Skinner.

Skinner scored a goal Saturday in a 3-2 win over Buffalo. He jammed in a rebound late in the first to tie the game 1-1. It was Skinner's first game against the Sabres since they bought out the final three years of his eight-year,

EDMONTON -- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored twice, including the go-ahead goal in the third period, and the Edmonton Oilers defeated Buffalo Sabres 3-2 at Rogers Place on Saturday. Nugent-Hopkins broke a 2-2 tie at 8:59, taking a backdoor feed from Darnell Nurse in the right face-off circle and lifting a shot past James Reimer’s glove.

Those were Zach Hyman's thoughts on the Oilers' 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday. It's clear where he was coming from: Buffalo outshot Edmonton 41-32, peppering Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner with 36 shots in the final 40 minutes. The Oilers were lucky to come away with a win against the last-place team in the Eastern Conference.

With the game tied 2-2, Buffalo outshot Edmonton 11-1 to start the third period before Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored his second goal of the game, giving the Oilers their first lead of the afternoon. That tally was ultimately the game winner as the Sabres concluded their road trip with a 1-3-0 record.

How old is too old? As Brandon Saad leaves St. Louis, the team now being run by his old GM from Chicago — Stan Bowman — is musing about whether he’d be a smart add. Mark Spector looks at whether the Oilers should add the 32-year-old winger.

The decision to let Dylan Holloway join the St. Louis Blues on an offer sheet is looking worse and worse for the Edmonton Oilers.