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SPORTS

The Edmonton Sun n Thursday, November 17, 2011

SPeCIAl TeAMS
PaST
(1-4)

OIler: PP 17.8% (13th), PK 87.3% (7th) SeNATOrS: PP 23.4% (3rd), PK 80% (21st)

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Ottawa Senators (9-9-1) at Edmonton Oilers (9-6-2)

TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M., Rexall Place TV: Sportsnet RaDIO: 630 cHeD

GameDay
OIlerS GAMeDAY lINeS
Taylor Hall Ryan Smyth Anton Lander Ben Eager Ladislav Smid Theo Peckham Corey Potter

PaST

(2-2-1)

oTT 3 CaL 1 oTT 5 Tor 2 oTT 1 buF 5 Nyr 3 oTT 2 buF 3 oTT 2 (so)

Sun hockey guy DVD breaks it down

TONIGHTS MATCHUP
FOrWArDS DeFeNCe GOAlTeNDING POWer PlAY COACHING OVerAll PeNAlTY KIll

SeNATOrS GAMeDAY lINeS

Colin Greening Jason Spezza Nick Foligno Stephane Da Costa Kaspars Daugavins Zack Smith Zenon Konopka Jesse Winchester Chris Phillips Filip Kuba Jared Cowen

leFT WING

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Jordan Eberle Shawn Horcoff Ales Hemsky Eric Belanger Ryan Jones Sam Gagner Lennart Petrell Tom Gilbert Jeff Petry Andy Sutton Devan Dubnyk Nikolai Khabibulin

ceNTRe

RIGHT WING

leFT WING

ceNTRe

Milan Michalek D. Alfredsson Erik Condra Bobby Butler Craig Anderson Alex Auld

RIGHT WING

DeFeNce PaIRINGS

GOalIeS

DeFeNce PaIRINGS

Brian Lee Erik Karlsson Sergei Gonchar

GOalIeS

Still have explosive players who can score a lot in a hurray

May have been exposed on road trip but better than Sens

PLUS
ryan smyth is leading the way offensively, now its just a matter of getting the rest of the team to follow. The veteran winger has 10 goals and 17 points in 17 games this season. smyth has scored eight goals in his last eight games.

MINUS
The oilers havent received any offensive production from their bottom two lines. eric belanger, sam Gagner, anton Lander, magnus Paajarvi and ben eager have all yet to score a goal this season. If the oilers are to have continued success, their third and fourth lines are going to have to start chipping in offensively now and then.

One of best tandems in the league

Scoring power-play goal nearly one in four opportunities

Sagging of late, but still one of their strenghts

Surprising what Paul McLean has been able to do

Good defence usually trumps good offence

WHO TO WATCH
Jason Spezza
senators centre is off to a good start with 17 points in 19 games. hes tied for the team lead in scoring with erik Karlsson who has a goal and one assist.

Whats left in the tank?

OIlerS SCOrING
GP Ryan Smyth 17 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 17 Jordan Eberle 17 Taylor Hall 16 Shawn Horcoff 17 Corey Potter 15 Tom Gilbert 17 Ryan Jones 17 Ales Hemsky 6 Eric Belanger 17 Lennart Petrell 16 Theo PecKham 13 Sam Gagner 11 Andy Sutton 12 Ben Eager 13 G 10 7 4 3 3 2 2 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 a 7 7 9 8 6 6 4 3 4 2 1 1 2 0 1 P 17 14 13 11 9 8 6 6 4 2 2 2 2 1 1 +/2 1 0 0 0 -3 -6 1 1 0 -3 3 0 0 -2

Had three days off following road trip

Second of a three-game Western swing

OILeRS

SeNaTORS
rW Chris Neil (ankle), C Peter regin (shoulder), d matt Carkner (knee).

COMPIleD bY DereK VAN DIeST

INJUrIeS

d Cam barker (ankle), ryan Whitney (knee), darcy hordichuk (knee).