Loewen did not immediately respond to a request for an interview.<\/p>\n
The NHL team announced earlier Wednesday it had signed Formenton to a one-year contract worth US$850,000. He was one of five players from Canada\u2019s 2018 world junior team accused of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
The charges stemmed from an encounter with a woman after a Hockey Canada gala in London, Ont. The NHL later reinstated all five players after charges were dropped.<\/p>\n
After the signing, Formenton said he was grateful to join the team after what he called a \u201cdifficult road.\u201d<\/p>\n
A longtime hockey fan, Loewen caught Oiler fever during the team\u2019s heyday in the mid-1980s, when the team won its first of five Stanley Cups.<\/p>\n
In recent years, she developed the Mama Stanley persona and has been a regular fixture at Oilers games, with other team diehards posing for pictures with her.<\/p>\n
Some of her fans live as far away as Germany and Australia.<\/p>\n
Loewen\u2019s post Wednesday says her decision to no longer support the Oilers isn\u2019t tied to the team\u2019s already-signed players, but to management\u2019s decision to bring on Formenton.<\/p>\n
She says she feels betrayed and that she\u2019s lost a team she\u2019s supported for most of her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a sexual assault survivor, I must stand by my morals and stand with the woman at the centre of this case,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor that reason, as long as Formenton remains an Oiler, I CANNOT AND WILL NOT support or cheer for this team.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Oilers were eliminated from the first round of last season\u2019s Stanley Cup playoffs after a 5-2 Game 6 loss to the Anaheim Ducks. The team fell in the final in both 2024 and 2025 to the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n
Loewen\u2019s post did not state whether she\u2019d back another team. She ended her post by saying she was still \u201cMama Stanley.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMama Stanley belongs to ME \u2014 not the Edmonton Oilers organization,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe represents BELIEVE, kindness, children, survivors and community. I will not abandon her or EVER compromise her values.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n
Aaron Sousa, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loewen did not immediately respond to a request for an interview. The NHL team announced earlier Wednesday it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[5,4,60,14,104,718],"class_list":["post-659059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-playoffs","category-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117245439074323118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}