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Suter’s shootout winner lifts Red Wings past Oilers for fourth straight victory

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Detroit Red Wings’ Pius Suter (24) and Edmonton Oilers’ Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) battle for the puck during second period NHL action in Edmonton on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

By Shane Jones in Edmonton

Pius Suter scored the shootout winner as the Detroit Red Wings kept up their second-half surge with a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.

Dylan Larkin, Moritz Seider, Robby Fabbri and Olli Maatta scored for the Red Wings (25-20-8), who have now won four straight.

Ville Husso made 41 saves between regulation and overtime.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a pair of goals and Leon Draisaitl and Derek Ryan also replied for the Oilers (30-19-6), who have dropped two in a row.

Jack Campbell stopped 19-of-23 shots leading up to the shootout.

Detroit opened the scoring 4:17 into the first period on the power play as Larkin snuck a short-side shot past Campbell to extend his goal streak to four games. He has six goals across the stretch and 21 on the season.

The Red Wings added a bizarre goal at 17:19 when Seider sent a backhand shot from the corner towards the net and it caromed off defenceman Philip Broberg, the post, and then Campbell before going in.

Edmonton had no luck in the opening frame as Darnell Nurse and Klim Kostin both hit the posts.

Nugent-Hopkins got the Oilers on the board 1:26 into the second period when he ripped a wrist shot past Husso.

Fabbri restored Detroit’s two-goal edge on the power play when he creeped in from the point and beat Campbell clean to the far side at 9:06.

Edmonton made it a one-goal game just over two minutes later as Connor McDavid sent a one-handed pass across the crease to Nugent-Hopkins, who recorded his 26th goal of the season in his 55th game. Nugent-Hopkins’s career best is 28 goals in 82 games in 2018-2019.

Maatta made it 4-2 with 3:48 to play in the second, scoring his fifth goal of the season on a point blast off the faceoff.

The Oilers power play went to work 3:26 into the third period as Draisaitl put all his weight behind a one-timer to score his 31st.

Edmonton pulled even a couple of minutes later as a long Kostin shot was deftly tipped past Husso by Ryan into the net, eventually sending the game to overtime.

NOTES

The Oilers were forced to deviate from their recent practice of dressing seven defencemen and 11 forwards when blue-liner Vincent Desharnais was unable to dress due to illness. Also out for Edmonton was Kailer Yamamoto, who is ready to return but can’t be added to the lineup at the moment due to salary cap concerns, and Ryan Murray (back). … Missing for Detroit was Lucas Raymond (lower body) and Jake Walman (upper body) … Larkin is averaging a career-high 0.98 pints per game this season and is on pace for a career-high 79 points (32 goals, 48 assists) this season, and if he keeps it up would be the first Red Wings player with back-to-back 30-goal seasons since Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg both did so in 2007-08 and 2008-09.

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The Red Wings are right back at it on Thursday as they take on the Calgary Flames in the third game of a five-game trip. The Oilers play host to the New York Rangers on Friday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 15, 2023.

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Pierre Poilievre will run to represent Camrose, Stettler, Hanna, and Drumheller in Central Alberta by-election

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By Anthony Murdoch

Conservative MP-elect Damien Kurek announced Friday he would be willing to give up his seat as an MP so Pierre Poilievre, who lost his seat Monday, could attempt to re-join Parliament.

Conservative MP-elect Damien Kurek announced Friday he would be willing to give up his seat in a riding that saw the Conservatives easily defeat the Liberals by 46,020 votes in this past Monday’s election. Poilievre had lost his seat to his Liberal rival, a seat which he held for decades, which many saw as putting his role as leader of the party in jeopardy.

Kurek has represented the riding since 2019 and said about his decision, “It has been a tremendous honor to serve the good people of Battle River—Crowfoot.”

“After much discussion with my wife Danielle, I have decided to step aside for this Parliamentary session to allow our Conservative Party Leader to run here in a by-election,” he added.

Newly elected Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney used his first post-election press conference to say his government will unleash a “new economy” that will further “deepen” the nation’s ties to the world.

He also promised that he would “trigger” a by-election at once, saying there would be “no games” trying to prohibit Poilievre to run and win a seat in a safe Conservative riding.

Poilievre, in a statement posted to X Friday, said that it was with “humility and appreciation that I have accepted Damien Kurek’s offer to resign his seat in Battle River-Crowfoot so that I can work to earn the support of citizens there to serve them in Parliament.”

 

“Damien’s selfless act to step aside temporarily as a Member of Parliament shows his commitment to change and restoring Canada’s promise,” he noted.

Carney said a new cabinet will be sworn in on May 12.

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‘Existing oil sands projects deliver some of the lowest-breakeven oil in North America’

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By Will Gibson

Alberta oil sands projects poised to grow on lower costs, strong reserves

As geopolitical uncertainty ripples through global energy markets, a new report says Alberta’s oil sands sector is positioned to grow thanks to its lower costs.

Enverus Intelligence Research’s annual Oil Sands Play Fundamentals forecasts producers will boost output by 400,000 barrels per day (bbls/d) by the end of this decade through expansions of current operations.

“Existing oil sands projects deliver some of the lowest-breakeven oil in North America at WTI prices lower than $50 U.S. dollars,” said Trevor Rix, a director with the Calgary-based research firm, a subsidiary of Enverus which is headquartered in Texas with operations in Europe and Asia.

Alberta’s oil sands currently produce about 3.4 million bbls/d. Individual companies have disclosed combined proven reserves of about 30 billion barrels, or more than 20 years of current production.

A recent sector-wide reserves analysis by McDaniel & Associates found the oil sands holds about 167 billion barrels of reserves, compared to about 20 billion barrels in Texas.

While trade tensions and sustained oil price declines may marginally slow oil sands growth in the short term, most projects have already had significant capital invested and can withstand some volatility.

Cenovus Energy’s Christina Lake oil sands project. Photo courtesy Cenovus Energy

“While it takes a large amount of out-of-pocket capital to start an oil sands operation, they are very cost effective after that initial investment,” said veteran S&P Global analyst Kevin Birn.

“Optimization,” where companies tweak existing operations for more efficient output, has dominated oil sands growth for the past eight years, he said. These efforts have also resulted in lower cost structures.

“That’s largely shielded the oil sands from some of the inflationary costs we’ve seen in other upstream production,” Birn said.

Added pipeline capacity through expansion of the Trans Mountain system and Enbridge’s Mainline have added an incentive to expand production, Rix said.

The increased production will also spur growth in regions of western Canada, including the Montney and Duvernay, which Enverus analysts previously highlighted as increasingly crucial to meet rising worldwide energy demand.

“Increased oil sands production will see demand increase for condensate, which is used as diluent to ship bitumen by pipeline, which has positive implications for growth in drilling in liquids-rich regions such as the Montney and Duvernay,” Rix said.

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