Game Preview: San Jose Sharks @ Edmonton Oilers

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Home opener.

San Jose Sharks @ Edmonton Oilers

22 JAN 2013 – 8:00 PM MST / 10:00 PM EST

Lines

TAYLOR HALL / RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS / JORDAN EBERLE

NAIL YAKUPOV / SAM GAGNER / ALES HEMSKY

RYAN SMYTH / SHAWN HORCOFF / TEEMU HARTIKAINEN

MAGNUS PAAJARVI / ERIC BELANGER / LENNART PETRELL

NICK SCHULTZ / JUSTIN SCHULTZ

LADISLAV SMID / JEFF PETRY

RYAN WHITNEY / COREY POTTER

DEVAN DUBNYK

YANN DANIS

Scratches – Eager, Hordichuk, Fistric

Injured – Sutton (knee), Jones (eye), Khabibulin (hip), Peckham (hip / physically unable to play)

Sharks come in to Rexall Place after taking down the Flames 4-1 on Sunday. Patrick Marleau finished with a pair of goals, and is tied with Logan Couture and Joe Thornton for team lead with 2 points a piece.
Edmonton was also victorious in their season opener, defeating Vancouver 3-2 in a shootout. Ales Hemsky and Jordan Eberle lead the team with a goal a piece.
Ben Eager was kept out of practice on Monday after absorbing a couple of shots in a fight versus Vancouver’s Zack Kassian. Coach Krueger gave Eager the day off on Monday as his face swelled up. In place of Eager, Magnus Paajarvi is getting a go tonight. Paajarvi’s last time in the Oilers lineup was February 25th, 2012 against Phoenix.
Antti Niemi was between the pipes for the Sharks in their 4-1 victory in Calgary. Both he and Devan Dubnyk will look for their second wins of the season.
Edmonton will have to keep out of the box. Six times they were down a man against the Canucks. Luckily, they were 6/6 on the penalty kill. Don’t know how many times the team will be able to knock off six penalties. Let’s shoot for about half that number.