NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers at Vancouver Canucks with Line Combinations 1/18/2025

NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers at Vancouver Canucks with Line Combinations 1/16/2025

Edmonton Oilers (29-13-3, 61 pts) at Vancouver Canucks (19-15-10, 48 pts)

Venue: Rogers Arena
Date: Saturday, January 18
Time: 10:00 pm ET
TV: ESPN+/SNW/SCRI
Radio: 
Edmonton – Oilers Radio 880 CHED
Vancouver – Sportsnet 650 AM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Edmonton: -1.5 ML -142
Vancouver: +1.5 ML +120
O/U 6.5

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Edmonton Oilers News & Notes: 

The Oilers won their fourth straight and eighth of their last nine on Thursday night with a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche. The Oilers went 3-0 early getting four unanswered goals from Viktor Arvidsson, Brett Kulak, Connor McDavid, and Evan Bouchard. In their recent stretch, they’ve averaged 3.56 goals per game while allowing 2.11 goals per game.

Vancouver Canucks News & Notes: 

The Canucks unlike the Oilers are trending the wrong way as they dropped their second straight on and their eighth in their last ten on Thursday in a 5-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings. They’ve allowed 3.4 goals per game in that ten-game stretch while scoring 1.9 goals per game. Since the return of Elias Pettersson, he’s had only one point on an assist.

Edmonton Oilers Projected Lines

Draisaitl-McDavid-Hyman
Podkolzin-Nugent-Hopkins-Arvidsson
Janmark-Henrique-Brown
Skinner-Philp-Perry

Ekholm-Bouchard
Nurse-Stetcher
Kulak-Emberson

Pickard
Skinner

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Vancouver Canucks Projected Lines:

DeBrusk-Pettersson-Lekkerimaki
Di Guiuseppe-Miller-Boeser
Heinen-Suter-Garland
Hoglander-Blueger-Sherwood

Hughes-Hronek
Forbort-Myers
Soucy-Desharnais

Demko
Lankinen

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Players To Watch:

Edmonton Oilers

Connor McDavid this season has 64 points on 20 goals and 44 assists. He’s faced the Canucks 41 times in his career recording 67 points on 24 goals and 43 assists; in the previous matchup this season he had a goal and two points.

Vancouver Canucks

Elias Pettersson this season has 29 points on ten goals and 19 assists. He’s faced the Oilers 23 times in his career recording 21 points on seven goals and 14 assists; he had a goal and an assist in the matchup earlier this season.

Injury Report:

Edmonton Oilers

F Evander Kane – Out
D Alec Regula – IR

Vancouver Canucks

F Dakota Joshua – IR

Next game:

Edmonton – January 21 vs Washington Capitals
Vancouver – January 21 vs. Buffalo Sabres

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