With six games remaining, the San Jose Sharks find themselves three points behind the Nashville Predators for the second Wild Card spot in the Western Conference. As a result, every point matters moving forward. The Edmonton Oilers are visiting the Sharks tonight, and they're also in a playoff battle of their own. Despite sitting just four points ahead of the Predators, they sit first in the Pacific Conference.
The Oilers will be without a couple of key players tonight, Leon Draisaitl is out for the remainder of the regular season and Zach Hyman is currently out of the lineup as well.
The game will be broadcast on TNT, truTV, HBO Max, Sportsnet West, Sportsnet 1, and TVA Sports.
Projected Lines (Per NHL.com):
San Jose Sharks
Collin Graf - Macklin Celebrini - Will Smith
William Eklund - Alexander Wennberg - Kiefer Sherwood
Igor Chernyshov - Michael Misa - Tyler Toffoli
Barclay Goodrow - Zack Ostapchuk - Adam Gaudette
Dmitry Orlov - Vincent Desharnais
Mario Ferraro - John Klingberg
Sam Dickinson - Nick Leddy
Alex Nedeljkovic
Yaroslav Askarov
Edmonton Oilers
Vasily Podkolzin - Connor McDavid - Matt Savoie
Jack Roslovic - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Kasperi Kapanen
Colton Dach - Jason Dickinson - Trent Frederic
Max Jones - Adam Henrique - Curtis Lazar
Mattias Ekholm - Evan Bouchard
Darnell Nurse - Connor Murphy
Jake Walman - Ty Emberson
Connor Ingram
Tristan Jarry