McDavid out vs Wild

Tonight is a big game for the Oilers (BROKEN RECORD MUCH) The Vegas Golden Knights won yesterday and find themselves in 1st place in the Pacific. The story coming into today was, is McDavid playing? Is he not? Will I drink all day every day in Vegas next week? We can say yes to 2 of those questions. No he will not playing tonight and yes I will drink all day every day next week in Vegas!

LINES:

RNH - Draisaitl - Yamamoto

Benson - Sheahan - Archibald

Gagner - Haas - Chiasson

Khaira - Cave - P. Russell

Nurse - Bear

Jones - Larsson

Lagesson - Benning

Koskinen

Not shocking that things stay the same with the change in goal. Lets see if Mikko can bounce back. He has lost 2 of his last 3 but in his last game was excellent against the Panthers.

Darnell Nurse will be interesting to watch again. My guess is he will still be on the 1st PP unit. He played nearly half the game vs Boston (29:58) You can tell he isn't use to those minutes so hopefully tonight against a weaker team like the Wild he will have the burden lifted off of him.

Parise - Staal - Fiala

Galchenyuk - Kunin - Zuccarello

Foligno - Eriksson Ek - Greenway

Rask - Koivu - Hartmen

Suter - Spurgeon

Brodin - Dumba

Soucy - Pateryn

Stalock

Unfortunate that we won get to see former Oiler Devon Dubnyk in net but we get to see future Oiler Matt Dumba. AMIRITE!!!! All joking aside the Wild have won 2 of their last 5 and are 6-3-1 in their last 10. They are also 2-0 this season vs the Oil. Jordan Greenway and Eric Staal have been big parts for the wild this year so the Oilers will need to stop them.

PREDICTIONS:

1. Mikko plays well, not great.

2. The Oilers win 4-3 in a comeback effort

3. Patrick Russell finally scores, ya I know weird right?