Cult of Hockey Game Day: Edmonton Oilers go back to Mikko Koskinen for second of consecutive road games

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Cult of Hockey Game Day # 5

Edmonton Oilers (4-0-0) at Vegas Golden Knights (1-2-0)

8:00 PM MT

The 4-0 Edmonton Oilers meet a Vegas Golden Knights club tonight in Sin City, for their first turn of the season.

This is what Dave Tippet will likely do, as he monitors some “bumps and bruises” on the roster.

Players on italic are unconfirmed incoming:

Projected Grease Fitting Alignment

Koskinen

Hyman – McDavid – Puljujarvi

Nurse – Barrie

Nugent-Hopkins – Draisaitl – Yamamoto

Keith – Ceci

Foegele – Ryan – Kassian

Russell – Bouchard

Benson – Bank – Sceviour

Scratches: Skinner (backup), Koekkoek, Perlini, Turris.

Short shifts …

-The Las Vegas Knights are 1-2-0 to start the year. Tonight they will not have D Alec Martínez, who is out of the day to day. Mattias Janmark will make his debut for the season after some time in the COVID-19 protocol. Max Pacioretty is expected to be out for 6 weeks with a broken bone in his foot. F Mark Stone has a lower body problem every day. Alex Tuch (upper body) is out for the longer term. G Robin Lehner is at 3.41 GAA and .909 SV% 3 games in the youth season. He made 35 saves in a 3-1 loss to St. Louis on Wednesday.

Reference-edmontonjournal.com

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