The Hockey News gives you a game day preview of the Edmonton Oilers versus the Minnesota Wild.
The Edmonton Oilers play the Minnesota Wild at 7pm mountain time tonight. They are trying out some new line combinations against the tonight-in light of Connor McDavid's absence. The most notable change is Mattias Janmark being promoted to the top line.
This move admittedly doesn't make a lot of sense from the outside looking in. However, that's what the team is rolling with, so we'll see what happens.
On the Striking Oil podcast I gave a goalie breakdown for both teams along with a key to scoring against each of them. Check it out here:
If you are on your way home from work, here's the full podcast with the game preview at the end. Stream the podcast on this embedded player or on your preferred podcast player.
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