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Game Day
Edmonton (9-11-5) at Colorado (10-10-4)
OILERS GAMEDAY LINES
Magnus Paajarvi Sam Gagner Taylor Hall Shawn Horcoff Teemu Hartikainen Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Lennart Petrell Ryan Smyth

The Edmonton Sun n Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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Today, 7 p.m., Pepsi Center: TV: SportsNet-West, Radio: 630 CHED

THE MATCHUP
Colorado boast and impressive group of young forwards

AVALANCHE GAMEDAY LINES

Jamie McGinn Gabriel Landeskog John Mitchell Cody McLeod Greg Zanon Matt Hunwick Jan Hejda

LEFT WING

CENTRE

RIGHT WING

Nail Yakupov Ales Hemsky Jordan Eberle Mike Brown

LEFT WING

Matt Duchene Paul Stastny Ryan OReilly Chuck Kobasew Erik Johnson Ryan OByrne Ryan Wilson

CENTRE

P.A. Parenteau David Jones Aaron Palushaj Patrick Bordeleau

RIGHT WING

DEFENCE PAIRINGS
Nick Schultz Ladislav Smid Ryan Whitney Corey Potter Jeff Petry Justin Schultz

GOALIES
Devan Dubnyk Yann Danis

DEFENCE PAIRINGS

GOALIES
Semyon Varlamov J-S Giguere

FORWARDS DEFENCE

Whitneys offensive make Oilers bigger threat

Both teams with relatively young goaltenders

GOALTENDING POWER PLAY COACHING PENALTY KILL

Whats in the tank?

OILERS TOP 10
sam Gagner Taylor hall Jordan eberle Justin schultz ales hemsky Nail yakupov ryan Nugent-hopkins ryan smyth ryan Whitney Jeff Petry GP G a P +/25 9 14 23 -5 22 5 16 21 -4 25 6 12 18 -8 25 5 10 15 -10 24 8 6 14 -6 25 6 7 13 -13 24 1 9 10 -6 24 2 6 8 -1 18 3 4 7 -7 25 3 2 5 -6

Scored three power-play goals in win over Blackhawks.

Last game of nine-game road trip Snapped Chicagos season-opening streak

Has been the one constant for the team this season

With all his weapons back, Joe Sacco has his team rolling

WHO TO WATCH
Sam Gagner

OVERALL
Better than their record, seem to be putting it together

Two goals in the victory over the chicago Blackhawks. Playing the most consistent offensive game of his career at the moment

OileRS

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rW steve downie (knee), rW Milan hejduk (torso).

COMPILED bY DEREK VAN DIEST

INJURIES

c anton Lander (foot), G Nikolai Khabibulin (groin), c eric Belanger (groin).

SPECIAL

OILERS: PP 23.0% 7th, PK 83.5% 10th AVS: PP 14.7% 25th, PK 79.0% 20th

TEAMS

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