GDT Edm vs BJs (11/01)

[slapshot™]

EDIT: This is a home game for the Oilers - disregard the thread title.

The Edmonton Oilers look to extend their unbeaten streak over the Columbus Blue Jackets to 11 games when the teams meet Tuesday night at Rexall Place in the first of four meetings this season.

The Oilers are 7-0-3 in the last 10 games of the series, outscoring the Blue Jackets 38-22 in that span. Edmonton is 11-2-3 all-time in the series and hasn't lost to Columbus since dropping a 2-1 decision on Nov. 2, 2001.

STANDINGS: Blue Jackets - 8 points, 3rd place, 14 PB, Central Division. Oilers - 11 points, 4th place, 7 PB, Northwest Division.

TEAM LEADERS: Blue Jackets - Bryan Berard, Adam Foote, Trevor Letowski and Jason Chimera, 3 goals; Berard and Manny Malhotra, 6 assists; Berard, 9 points; Jody Shelley, 26 PIM. Oilers - Raffi Torres, 7 goals; Hemsky, 10 assists and 11 points; Ethan Moreau, 27 PIM.

SPECIAL TEAMS: Blue Jackets - Power play: 9.7 percent (8 for 82), 30th in NHL. Penalty killing: 84.6 percent (77 for 91), tied for 9th. Oilers - Power play: 16.2 percent (13 for 80), 20th. Penalty killing: 80.2 percent (65 for 81), tied for 19th.

GOALTENDERS: Blue Jackets - Marc Denis (2-5-0, 0 SO, 3.69 GAA); Martin Prusek (2-1-0, 0, 2.10). Oilers - Jussi Markkanen (4-5-1, 0, 2.91); Ty Conklin (1-1-0, 0, 4.39).

ROAD/HOME RECORDS: Blue Jackets - 1-5-0 on the road; Oilers - 2-2-1 at home.

[PDO]

Laraque is in tonight, lines are supposedly..

Smyth - Horcof - Hemsky
Torres - Stoll - Pisani
Moreau - Peca - Dvorak
Harvey - Reasoner - Laraque

And..

Nash - Hrdina - Vyborny
Fritsche - Malhotra - Zherdev
Chimera - Marchant - Letowski
Shelley/Goertzen - Wright - Rupp (kinda scrambled, right names, could be wrong positions)

Assuming Shelley is playing, I'm just fine seeing Georges suit up tonight. Shelley is just a goon who has no problem taking a run at a star if he knows he won't have to pay for it; and him and Laraque have a bit of a history as well (IIRC they had an epic a few years ago).

[KB in Kelowna]

I edited the title for you Slapp.

[Madferret]

2-1 Oil, midway thru the 2nd.
Where's all the Oiler boys?

[J.R.]

2-1 Oil, midway thru the 2nd.
Where's all the Oiler boys?
Just got in. I missed the first period.

I actually got to see Hemsky shoot the puck (*gasp*) and thus score a real beauty. That's why we want him to shoot more!

Smyth added another PP marker late in the second for a 3-1 lead.

[J.R.]

Hemsky added another, as the Oilers poured it on in the third to win 5-1. Hopefully tonight is Ales' coming out party. That would be dynamite! :)

Jussi played well against a young and talented B.J. team.

That's now three wins in a row as a huge test looms on Thursday at the league's best Red Wings. Anyone in AB planning on ordering the PPV? Fortunately with the Centre Ice package and not living in the Oilers' region, I'll get the game.

[Amoroq]

Any word on Peca? Nash got a good hit on him tonight?

[Canadian26]

Great game by the Oilers today, hopefully they can get just as good of a start on the road trip.

Any word on peca?

[Amoroq]

From TSN

Blue Jackets left-winger Rick Nash, playing just his second game of the season after suffering a high ankle sprain in training camp, knocked Edmonton centre Mike Peca from the game with a mild concussion in the first following a high fast-moving left elbow in the open ice.

[PDO]

I thought that hit was borderline at absolute best on Peca.. it was a hit to the head, any way you slice it.

Asides from that.. Semenov and Laraque both played their best games of the year. Hemsky is on absolute fire (8 points in 3 games). Markkanen is playing awesome (though, he has most of the year).

Most importantly? This was the first time we saw Pronger start to look dominate offensively.

[swflyers25]

http://www.photopile.com/photos/dantzu/auctions/225788.gif

Looks like that hurt quite a bit... :)

[TimmyTabasco]

Good solid win for the Oilers

However, why didn't Columbus start Prusek? He has been much better than Denis

[Madferret]

snip

Looks like that hurt quite a bit... :)

What's the point of posting that?

[Max Power]

Discussion above if it?s clean Dev
Looked clean to me but the consequences of it suck. Oilers can?t afford to lose any depth in center
Good to see Hemsky notch a few. I hope he keeps it up

[slapshot™]

Didn't see the game. Here are some interesting stats....

Top players TOI

Forwards
Jarret Stoll - 20:50
Ales Hemsky - 20:07
Shawn Horcoff - 17:56

Defence
Chris Pronger - 25:59
Cory Cross - 22:22
Steve Staios - 21:00

[Canadian26]

The hit was clean, Pecas short he only comes up to Nash's elbow area. Its definatly unfourtant, but I thought I heard they where expecting him to play agains the wings.

Those states arent that intresting for the centers espically, consdering they lost Peca half way threw the game. Although progner not playing 30mins is kinda intresting. I think thats a good sign, meaning that our other D-men are playing so great that progner doenst have to play half the game himself.