Ryan O'Marra News

Go ahead, say it like Ed Rooney - the dean of students in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off": nine times.

WHY OILERS WON got off to a good enough start to score the game's first goal, which has served them well all season.

It's back to the Edmonton Oilers lineup and back to Square 1 for Ryan Stone. After missing the last 19 games with a knee injury, the winger is making his return tonight against the Detroit Red Wings.

Colin McDonald had big plans for American Thanksgiving. And they did not include being in Canada.

Goaltender Devan Dubnyk, who appeared in 43 games in net with the Stockton Thunder in 2006-07, made his National Hockey League debut with the Edmonton Oilers tonight against the Vancouver Canucks and made 21 saves at GM Place in Vancouver.

A day after the Edmonton lost Ales Hemsky to an upper-body injury, the Oilers recalled centre Ryan O'Marra and right winger Colin McDonald from Springfield of the American Hockey League.

News came in today that the Los Angeles Kings, hit with a mere 39 man games lost to injury this season, called up Brayden Schenn on an emergency basis after Andrei Loktionov injured his shoulder in the Wednesday match against the Oilers.

The Oilers don't have a time frame yet on Ales Hemsky's injury, but the fact they called a couple of guys up from Springfield tells you he won't be available for Edmonton's back-to-back games with San Jose and Vancouver, at least.

It's clear what has powered the Thunder's offense through the first 11 games of the season.

Ryan O'Marra didn't get a chance to take the warm-up for his first NHL game, arriving just in time for the puck drop.

PRINCETON, N.J. Former Las Vegas Wranglers, Reading Royals and South Carolina Stingrays defenseman Deryk Engelland and former Stockton Thunder center Ryan O'Marra made their National Hockey League debuts on Tuesday raising the number of players to play in the NHL after the ECHL to 417 .

It's been a while since Ryan O'Marra was one of the key pieces of the Ryan Smyth trade puzzle.

Edmonton Oilers forward Steve MacIntyre. Photograph by: Ryan Jackson, edmontonjournal.com Ottawa a ' Edmonton Oilers slugger Steve MacIntyre's ticket to the NHL was punched with his clenched fists, and now the big guy may be rejoining the Florida Panthers.

Jason Spezza scored the winning goal in the shootout for the Ottawa Senators, who twice came from behind to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Tuesday night.

The Edmonton Oilers have called up another reinforcement from the Springfield Falcons in the form of forward Ryan O'Marra for their game against the Ottawa Senators tonight.

The Springfield Falcons were not half bad last weekend. The birds took three of a possible six points after winning a shootout on the road against Albany, losing at home in overtime to Lowell and dropping another road game in Worcester.

It didn't take long for Ryan Smyth, the heart and soul of the Oilers for 12 years, to tear up.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The second-best league in hockey is populated by boys on the bubble and older, career minor-leaguers with the odd can't-miss kid.

Ryan O'Marra, of the Springfield Falcons, controls the puck in front of Hartford's Artem Anisimov in American Hockey League game at the MassMutual Center in Springfield in January.

The Edmonton Oilers see Ryan O'Marra, shown here roughing up a member of the University of Alberta Golden Bears in September 2008, as having the ability to be a shutdown-type centre with an edge.