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The Edmonton Oilers have one of the league’s top players in reigning two-time scoring champion Connor McDavid. But heading into their home
opener Mike Reilly Jersey , the spotlight may be on the club’s defensive unit as they are tasked with shutting down one of the NHL’s top lines.Edmonton
finally plays at Rogers Place on Thursday night when they face the Boston
Bruins, who are led by the red-hot trio of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and
David Pastrnak.The excitement of playing at home for the first time comes after
Edmonton (2-2-0) rallied from a three-goal, third-period deficit to top the
Winnipeg Jets 5-4 on Tuesday night. That ended the Jets’ 11-game regular-season
home winning streak.Article continues below ...After salvaging a split of a
four-game season-opening road trip that started in Sweden, Oilers coach Todd
McLellan wants to see his club play hard from the initial faceoff to the final
horn.“They poured it all out, in my opinion, in the last period and a half. We
didn’t pour it all out in the first period and a half, and our team cannot
afford to waste minutes. It has to be on the line from minute one to minute 60,”
he said Wednesday. Tuesday’s win also started a stretch in which Edmonton will
play six straight games against teams that collected at least 100 points apiece
in 2017-18. After facing the Bruins, the Oilers take on the Nashville Predators,
Pittsburgh Penguins and defending Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals at
Rogers Place before travelling to Nashville.“This homestand’s obviously really
important and we’re playing some A-class teams,” McLellan noted.Last season,
Edmonton was 19-18-4 at home but closed the campaign with three straight losses
there.McDavid had two goals and two assists against the Jets and set an NHL
record by having a hand in Edmonton’s first nine goals this season. Three of the
captain’s four goals have come on the power play. He had five such tallies in
2017-18.“Pucks are going in for him and he’s very confident. He’s
Connor Womens Paul Byron Jersey ,” McLellan said of McDavid, who has 17 goals and 18 assists in his last 16 home games, and a goal with seven assists in five
career games versus Boston.Edmonton and Boston (4-2-0) close the season series
with this matchup. McDavid scored early, but Cam Talbot yielded three goals in
less than six minutes of the opening period en route to a 4-1 loss to Boston on
Oct. 11. “That’s a good team over there,” Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse said
on Wednesday. “They play hard. They’re very skilled. You can’t give them too
much.”Marchand, Bergeron and Pastrnak have spearheaded the Bruins’ offense so
far, combining for 15 of the club’s 24 goals. They accounted for two goals and
two assists on Wednesday, but Boston’s four-game winning streak was snapped with
a 5-2 loss to the Calgary Flames.All three players are riding five-game point
streaks. Marchand has two goals and nine assists in that span, while Pastrnak —
who had a goal against Calgary waved off after video review — has seven goals
with three helpers.With five consecutive multipoint games, Bergeron has been the
best of the bunch with six goals and seven assists. He is also the current NHL
First Star of the Week.In 17 career games in Edmonton, Marchand, Bergeron and
Pastrnak have totaled five goals and seven assists.Boston coach Bruce Cassidy is
concerned about the lack of production from the remainder of the team.“We know
we have a line that’s going to deliver that every night. We went home and we did
get some of that much better balance. You hope that continues. It didn’t
tonight,” Cassidy told the Boston Herald.Tuukka Rask stopped 23 Flames
shots Authentic Shea Weber Jersey , but is 0-3-2 with a 3.79 goals-against average and .881 save percentage in his last five starts versus Edmonton.“We left our
goalie out to dry, and it could have been worse,” Bergeron told the Boston
Globe.It doesn’t appear Rask will get the chance to earn a win Thursday. In a
tweet from the team earlier in the week, Cassidy said Jaroslav Halak would start
against Edmonton. Halak has turned away 73 of 76 shots, including a 25-save
effort versus the Oilers one week ago, while winning both of his starts for
Boston.He’s given up a total of seven goals while losing each of his last two
road starts against Edmonton. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The Winnipeg Jets only got a
few hours to celebrate the biggest victory in franchise history.The Jets
finished off the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Nashville Predators 5-1 in Game 7 of
their second-round series Thursday night, then quickly headed home to prepare
for the opener of their first ever Western Conference final Saturday night.”It’s
too bad one of us had to be knocked off here,” Jets captain Blake Wheeler said.
”But night’s like tonight, you try to really soak it in and enjoy it. And then,
wake up and get ready for a big game on Saturday.”The Jets will be hosting the
upstart Vegas Golden Knights in a conference final nobody predicted.Upstart
Winnipeg was swept in its only previous playoff appearance since leaving Atlanta
for Canada in 2011. The Golden Knights, meanwhile, are dragging their debut
season deep into the NHL calendar.”We know what they bring Victor Mete Jersey , we know that they’re good, that they maybe surprised a few teams, but not really,” Jets center Paul Stastny said. ”They had 109
points. In a sense they play like us, they have a lot of depth, and they can
roll four lines, and they have good, puck-moving D. So we’re going to have our
hands full for sure.”Stastny had one of two Winnipeg goals 2:06 apart in the
first period to chase Vezina Trophy finalist Pekka Rinne for the third and final
time in their series. Stastny finished with two goals and an assist, and Mark
Scheifele finished with two goals, giving him a postseason record seven road
goals in a single series .Tyler Myers also scored. Wheeler and rookie Kyle
Connor each added two assists, and Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who improved
to 4-0 coming off a loss this postseason, made 36 saves to outduel Rinne in the
showdown between Vezina Trophy finalists.”A year in a goalie’s life makes such a
big difference Colton Sissons Jersey ,” Jets coach Paul Maurice said of his 24-year-old goalie. ”In the third period, I think had one bobbled puck that got away from
him, but everything else after that he was knocking it to the corner, he was
clearing the front. He looked calm.”This was the first Game 7 for the
Winnipeg/Atlanta franchise, and the Jets dominated the Predators to win in
Nashville for the third time in the series. They outskated the Predators and
kept the puck on their sticks much of the game, even as Nashville outshot them
21-7 in the third period.By the time Scheifele scored his record-setting goal
into an empty net with 2:33 left, the Jets had left no doubt this was their
series.Now they head back to Winnipeg, where the Jets posted the NHL’s best home
record in the regular season. They have a good idea how much this next series
means as Canada’s last team still standing and even more special for Winnipeg
after the town lost its first NHL team to Arizona.Wheeler said they’re thrilled
their fans get to have a celebration.”Our fans have been with us filling up our
building for seven years and we haven’t always had the most success, but they’ve
always been supportive all over the city,” Wheeler said. ”I don’t think I’ve
heard a negative comment in seven years. So now, we’re just happy to keep
playing for them.”—