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Edmonton Oilers (16-10-2) at Minnesota Wild (19-5-4)
TV: Hulu, Sportsnet West. Radio: 880 CHED.
TIME: 6:30 p.m. Thursday
Odds: Oilers – 137, Wild + 114
It’s not every day you get a chance to take on the top team in the league when you’re primed on a three-game win streak having won six of the past seven. But that’s exactly where the Edmonton Oilers find themselves heading into the Twin Cities to take on a Wild bunch that has also won six of their last seven to sit tied atop the NHL standings with the Winnipeg Jets. The Oilers are in a three-way tie for 10th place with the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche.
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Leon Draisaitl became the first player in the league to reach 20 goals on the season (in 28 games), and sits atop the leaderboard heading into Minnesota. It’s the ninth consecutive season the Oilers forward has scored at least 20 goals in a season, and would have been his 10th if he had managed one more goal in his sophomore campaign in 2015-16. On the Wild’s bench, Kirill Kaprizov sits second overall in scoring with 43 points (18 goals, 25 assists).
The Oilers are going with backup goalie Calvin Pickard tonight. The 32-year-old is 6-3-0 with a 2.56 goals-against average and a .892 save percentage on the year.
Will Leon Draisaitl win the goal-scoring race this season?
“They definitely have something special going on here. It’s very serious, and you can definitely tell they have one goal in mind.”
• Newest Oilers addition Alec Regula
MINNESOTA
Forwards
Kaprizov – Rossi – Boldy
Foligno – Hartman – Johansson
Lauko – Gaudreau – Trenin
Shore – Khusnutdinov – Jones
Defence
Middleton – Faber
Chisholm – Spurgeon
Merrill – Bogosian
Goalies
Gustavsson
Fleury
EDMONTON
Forwards
Nugent-Hopkins – McDavid – Hyman
Podkolzin – Draisaitl – Kapanen
Skinner – Henrique – Janmark
Perry – Ryan – Brown
Defence
Ekholm – Bouchard
Nurse – Stecher
Kulak – Emberson
Goalies
Pickard
Skinner
WILD: D Jonas Brodin, Joel Eriksson-Ek and Mats Zuccarello
EDMONTON: Viktor Arvidsson
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