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FORT LAUDERDALE — The Florida Panthers will not be making any lineup changes before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final tonight. The same cannot be said for the Edmonton Oilers.
Although Stuart Skinner will return for a fourth straight start after being pulled in Game 3, Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch is making some other changes.
Viktor Arvidsson and John Klingberg are out for the Oilers; they will be replaced by Jeff Skinner and Troy Stecher.
Connor Brown moves up from the third line to play with Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
“Obviously a big game, felt that we have a lot of good players, a lot of good players who had been in and out of the lineup,’’ Knoblauch said. “Some players haven’t even seen any game action so far in this series. Felt that we could use the change, have those guys come in, give us a boost.
“We’ve seen it throughout the playoffs where we’ve made alterations to our lineup and it’s benefitted us. It’s been difficult to take those guys out because, not that they’ve been playing poorly, we just feel we have something with guys who have been out, so we’re making some adjustments.”
The Panthers expect the Oilers to bounce back after Monday’s thrashing — and so does Edmonton.
“I think we pride ourselves in coming up with an answer after a not-so-great showing,’’ McDavid said. “I think we’re all looking forward to tonight. We’re a team that responds really well after, I guess, not-so-great game. We’re looking to do that again tonight.
“This group does a good job of learning from the early couple of games in a series as a whole, not necessarily a lopsided loss like that. But yea, you always learn from your disappointments. Learned a lot the other night, and hopefully some things that we can implement tonight that give us a better result.”
23 Carter Verhaeghe // 16 Sasha Barkov // 13 Sam Reinhart
17 Evan Rodrigues // 9 Sam Bennett // 19 Matthew Tkachuk
27 Eetu Luostarinen // 15 Anton Lundell // 63 Brad Marchand
10 AJ Greer // 92 Tomas Nosek // 12 Jonah Gadjovich
42 Gus Forsling // 5 Aaron Ekblad
77 Niko Mikkola // 3 Seth Jones
88 Nate Schmidt // 7 Dmitry Kulikov
72 Sergei Bobrovsky
41 Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Mackie Samoskevich, Jesper Boqvist, Uvis Balinskis, Nico Sturm, Jaycob Megna, Evan Cormier
93 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins // 97 Connor McDavid // 28 Connor Brown
91 Evander Kane // 29 Leon Draisaitl // 42 Kasperi Kapanen
53 Jeff Skinner // 19 Adam Henrique // 21 Trent Frederik
92 Vasily Podkolzin // 13 Mattias Janmark // 90 Corey Perry
27 Brett Kulak // 2 Evan Bouchard
25 Darnell Nurse // 51 Troy Stetcher
14 Mattias Ekholm // 96 Jake Walman
74 Stuart Skinner
30 Calvin Pickard
Scratched: Viktor Arvidsson, John Klingberg, Joshua Brown, Cam Dineen, Ty Emberson, Max Jones, Derek Ryan
Injured: Zach Hyman (dislocated wrist)
Edmonton Oilers Lines Courtesy NHL.com
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