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If this start to the Edmonton Oilers season were a Tom Cruise movie, it would be Top Gun. Sitting first in the NHL in points percentage and winning five in a row, the Oilers’ top guns have had the need — the need for speed. It’s fresh and doesn’t feel like a sequel, as a familiar cast has avoided their October Groundhog Day, the movie Oilers fans have watched this team play like déjà vu. One has to think the extended off-season break has helped the leaders in Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Evan Bouchard, and Mattias Ekholm begin so strongly, but their combined attention to detail defensively is noticeable to the naked eye. The known quantities pulling off the performances of a lifetime. Box office draws delivering. But the overall style in which Edmonton is winning these games, except for Vancouver, which I’m willing to chalk up as pre-season extended hockey, is decidedly uncinematic. Yes, the Oilers’ top line is dominating, but it’s not always pretty when they’re off the ice. The cast listed in minuscule font on the poster are trading standout performances and are giving Oilers fans some legitimate optimism.

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Tom AustinThere is a peculiar thing that happens to great design when it disappears. At first, people move on. A few years pass, tastes change, old photographs start looking strangely contemporary, and eventually what once seemed tied to a particular moment begins to make sense all over again. Somewhere along the way, indifference turns into nostalgia, nostalgia becomes appreciation, and everybody starts wondering why a watch like the Cartier Roadster disappeared in the first place. The Roadster has travelled that exact path. Introduced in 2002 and discontinued around a decade later, it spent years occupying an unusual corner of the Cartier catalogue. Its muscular proportions, automotive references and unmistakably early-2000s confidence made it easy to associate with the period in which it was created. Fourteen years after its departure, the Roadster has returned to a watch landscape that looks very different, and time away has made its qualities considerably easier to appreciate. In 2026, Cartier may have just brought its best sports watch back from the dead.

Published: October 16, 2026 at 10:16p.m. EDTDETROIT — Trayce Jackson-Davis led all scorers with 23 points — including 15 made free throws — but the Toronto Raptors still fell to the Detroit Pistons 129-125 on Friday in the final pre-season game for both teams. Jackson-Davis also had three rebounds and a steal as Toronto (2-3) didn’t put any of its top rotation players in the game. Nimari Burnett had 17 points and five boards for the Raptors, while rookie Allen Gaves added nine points but pulled down eight rebounds. Cade Cunningham had 18 points and seven assists to lead Detroit (3-1) and Jalen Duren had 14 points and three rebounds. Both of them played limited minutes as the Pistons had 18 different players enter the game. Toronto hosts the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday in their regular-season home opener. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 16, 2026. The Canadian Press

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