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GDT: Canes @ Edmonton 10/22 9:00

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andyt

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The first edition of Canes After Dark.

Last time out in St. Loo, the Canes came out hard, got an early goal from Svech, dominated the rest of the 1st period and then lost their legs. The Blues scored 3 in the 2nd but the Canes came back to tie it in the 3rd with 2 early goals before giving up the winner about 1:30 after tying it on a bad blue line miscue. The Cnwes outshot the Blues 40-19 and win the special teams battle to no avail. There was radio silence from the team yesterday, so aside from seeing that they practiced, there was nothing else. We’ll have to wait until the morning skate to get any details.

Edmonton has gotten off to another slow start, 2-4 so far. Leon Draisaitl leads with 3 goals, Connor McDavid leads with 5 assists, with only 1 goal so far. Corey Perry and Viktor Arvidsson are the inky o,Ayers on the plus side of plus/minus. They’re averaging 2 goals per game, tied for the worst in the league with San Jose and Nashville. The goalie tandem of Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard has been bad. They’re allowing 4 goals per game and sport a scintillating .851 save percentage, ahead of just the Avs.

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Yeah ... no feel for this one at all. Edmonton's recent outings have seen them absolutely mauling opposing goalies in the crease in search of greasy goals and then giving up softies in their own end after committing too many numbers in attack, but they haven't really played a possession oriented team yet. But Carolina is notorious for volume rather than precision shooting, and not always quick to take advantage of poor defense from opponents. Edmonton always seems very frustrated when playing the Canes, but they're coming into this one pre-heated to 500 degrees of annoyed. Could be a weird one, honestly.

I presume Andersen goes in net for Carolina and no changes otherwise. The Oilers' D is even more top heavy than their forward group, so you'd assume that the Canes will want to make the 2nd and 3rd pairs sweat. Without last change, Aho's probably going to have to try to keep up with McDavid's line but will probably have Slavin to help out. That's been a decent combo for Carolina in that matchup in the past, but you get the feeling that McDavid is primed for one of those 4 point outbursts at pretty much any time. This is probably either gonna be a 2-1 nailbiter or a football score.
 
The Oilers TV guy says this is the lineup:

RNH - McDavid - Hyman
Skinner - Draisaitl - Arvidsson
Janmark - Ryan - Brown
Podkolzin - Henrique - Perry

Ekholm - Bouchard
Dermott - Nurse
Kulak - Stecher

Skinner
 
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