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SPORTS

The Edmonton Sun n Monday, April 8, 2013

Past

(3-2-0) EDM 1 LAK 3 EDM 0 VAN 4 EDM 8 CAL 2 CAL 1 EDM 4 VAN 0 EDM 4

Game Day
Edmonton (16-15-7) at Anaheim (25-8-5)
Monday, 8 p.m., Honda Centre, SportsNet West, 630 CHED

Past

(3-1-1) x DAL 3 ANA 1 DAL 2 ANA 5 ANA 4 DAL 0 ANA 1 CBJ 2 (OT) ANA 2 CHI 1

The MATCHUP
Have two of the games elite.

oilers GAMEDAY lines

Taylor Hall Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Magnus Paajarv Sam Gagner Ryan Smyth Shawn Horcoff Lennart Petrell Jerred Smithson

ducks GAMEDAY lines

Bobby Ryan Daniel Winnik Andrew Cogliano Kyle Palmleri

LEFT WING

CENTRE

RIGHT WING

Jordan Eberle Nail Yakupov Ales Hemsky Mike Brown

LEFT WING

Saku Koivu Mathew Lombardi Dave Steckel Peter Holland

CENTRE

Corey Perry Teemu Selanne Matt Beleskey Emerson Etem

RIGHT WING

DEFENCE PAIRINGS
Ladislav Smid Nick Schultz Ryan Whitney Jeff Petry Justin Schultz Mark Fistric

GOALIES
Devan Dubnyk Nikolai Khabibulin

DEFENCE PAIRINGS
Sheldon Souray Cam Fowler Luca Sbisa F. Beauchemin Bryan Allen Ben Lovejoy

GOALIES
Jonas Hiller Viktor Fasth

FORWARDS DEFENCE

Much better in their own end.

Strong goaltending tandem.

GOALTENDING POWER PLAY COACHING PENALTY KILL

Whats in the tank?

Still one of the best in the league.

Last of a four-game road trip. Second game of a back-to-back.

Off-night in Los Angeles, but still a strength.

Compiled by DEREK VAN DIEST

sam gagner

Probably a coach-of-the year candidate.

OVERALL
One of leagues elite.

PLUS
The Oilers can pull themselves back to within a win of a playoff spot with a victory over the Ducks. The target seems to have changed for the Oilers as it appears the Detroit Red Wings and not the St. Louis Blues are the team to catch The Oilers still have one of the top power-play units in the league, despite connecting just once on the man advantage in their last two games.

MINUS
Having been in a playoff spot at the start of their four-game road trip, the Oilers are in danger of falling out of the race with a loss to the Ducks. The Oilers currently sit four-points back of the fourth-and-final playoff spot in the Western Conference, having lost two straight. The Oilers have also slipped to 10th place in the conference standings, behind the Phoenix Coyotes.

oilers top 10
Taylor Hall Sam Gagner Jordan Eberle Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Nail Yakupov Ales Hemsky Justin Schultz Ryan Whitney Magnus Paajarvi Ryan Smyth GP 35 38 38 35 38 37 38 30 33 37 G 13 14 12 3 9 9 6 4 8 2 A P +/28 41 5 20 34 -6 16 28 -2 19 22 2 12 21 -10 11 20 -6 14 20 -12 9 13 -7 3 11 -5 7 9 -3

who to watch
Justin Schultz
After failing to come to terms on an agreement with the team that originally drafted him, the Oilers defenceman makes his first visit to Anaheim to face the Ducks.

oilers

ducks
C Nick Bonino (flu), C Ryan Getzlaf (lower body).

INJURIES

C Eric Belanger (groin).

SPECIAL

oilers: PP 23.2% 3rd, PK 83.4% 9th ducks: PP 22.6% 5th, PK 80.0% 21st

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