OEG Inc. (formerly Oilers Entertainment Group) is a company based out of

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, that operates Katz Group of Companies' sports and entertainment offerings. The flagship property and namesake is the

Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. Th ...

of the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

. OEG also operates

Rogers Place Rogers Place is a multi-use indoor arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Construction started in March 2014, and the building officially opened on September 8, 2016. The arena has a seating capacity of 18,347 as a ice hockey, hockey venue and 20,73 ...

, the new home of the Oilers in downtown Edmonton. OEG is owned by

Daryl Katz Daryl Allan Katz (; born May 31, 1961) is a Canadian billionaire businessman. Katz is the founder and chairman of the Katz Group of Companies, one of Canada's largest privately owned enterprises, with pharmacy, sports & entertainment, and real es ...

History

When

bought the Oilers in 2008 from

Edmonton Investors Group The Edmonton Investors Group Limited Partnership (EIGLP) was the limited partnership that owned the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League and the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League. With more than thirty individual shareholder ...

, he created Rexall Sports Corporation as an umbrella for Katz Group's sports and entertainment interests. The company was reorganized as Oilers Entertainment Group in 2014, with former

Hockey Canada Hockey Canada (which merged with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in 1994) is the national governing body of ice hockey and ice sledge hockey in Canada. It is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation and controls the majority ...

president Bob Nicholson as vice chairman. In 2015, he became chief executive officer and operating head of Katz' entertainment interests, including the Oilers. On April 24, 2015 OEG announced the appointment of Peter Chiarelli as President of Hockey Operations and General Manager of the Oilers. The OEG's CEO, Jürgen Schreiber, is currently under investigation by the

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after an audit found millions in undeclared Canadian income from real estate holdings and incorporated businesses. At the same time, he claimed to have lived in the Bahamas between 2016 and 2019.

Operations

Originally beginning with just the Oilers, OEG has grown to include a significant sports and entertainment offerings portfolio. OEG now owns and operates the

Edmonton Oil Kings The Edmonton Oil Kings are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, that play in the Western Hockey League (WHL). The team, founded in 2006, shares an ownership group with the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers. The te ...

of the

Western Hockey League The Western Hockey League (WHL) is a junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States. The WHL is one of three leagues that constitutes the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) as the highest level of junior hocke ...

and the

Bakersfield Condors The Bakersfield Condors are a professional ice hockey team based in Bakersfield, California. They are the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers. The Condors play their home games at Dignity Healt ...

of the

American Hockey League The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental league of the National Hockey League (NHL). The league comprises 32 teams, with 26 in the United States and 6 in Cana ...

. From January 2014 to September 2016, OEG owned the

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franchise in the

ECHL The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a minor professional ice hockey league based in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with teams across the United States and Canada. Competitively, it is a tier below the American Hockey League (AHL). The ...

. OEG also owns Aquila Productions, which produces film & television, live events and broadcasts, and corporate and branded messaging services. OEG also operates

, a multi-use indoor arena that is home to the Edmonton Oilers and the Edmonton Oil Kings. In addition to sporting events, the arena plays host to concerts and other events in the

Ice District Ice District is a $2.5 billion mixed-use sports and entertainment district being developed on of land in Downtown Edmonton and a portion of the neighbourhood of Central McDougall. Its main attraction is Rogers Place, the home arena of the Edmonto ...

, a mixed-use sports and entertainment development, featuring a winter garden - a key part of the architectural design used as a large multi-use indoor public space - and an adjoining community rink which is open to the public. In April 2015, Katz announced a partnership with film producer

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to take control over Silver Pictures Entertainment – a company that develops, produces and provides and/or arranges financing for feature films, television and digital projects. Moreover, OEG owns

Dark Castle Entertainment Dark Castle Entertainment is a Film studio, film production label of OEG Inc. It was founded in 1998 originally as a film production company by producers Joel Silver & Gilbert Adler and filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, with most of its productions cen ...

, another content production company under the OEG umbrella. In 2019,

was freed from his involvement in Silver Pictures Entertainment. Following legal disputes have been settled swiftly, with Silver leaving all the rights to all existing projects and development responsibilities to OEG. In 2022, OEG acquired the

Tokyo Smoke Tokyo Smoke is a Canadian recreational cannabis retail brand owned by OEG Inc. that operates in the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan. It was co-founded by father and son Lorne and Alan Gertner in 2015. ...

brand and 23 retail cannabis stores from

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. On the first of August 2023, Jeff Jackson was appointed as chief executive officer (CEO) of Hockey Operations. Jeff Jackson works closely with K. Holland to manage everything related to OEG's NHL, AHL and WHL business. Jackson previously worked for the "powerful and respected" full-service agency Wasserman. He reports directly to Daryl Katz.

References

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History

Operations

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