GDT: Your New Jersey Devils (9-2) @ Edmonton Oilers (3-7-1), 9 PM, NHL-N + MSG+

[Better Call Sal]

Welcome back ladies and gents to the quest for win number

So Schneids, was that your best performance of the season so far?

Meanwhile Hallsy continues his torrid start and couldn't be happier!

Now, we head to Edmonton to visit our old friend Lars, who is sad no matter what other people tell you.

But no time for sympathy here, we've got a winning streak to continue!

Highlights from last game:

Your New Jersey Devils

#9 Taylor Hall (A) - #13 Nico Hischier - #18 Drew Stafford (A)
#39 Brian Gibbons - #14 Adam Henrique (A) - #63 Jesper Bratt
#11 Brian Boyle - #37 Pavel Zacha - #10 Jimmy Hayes
#44 Miles Wood - #40 Blake Coleman

#6 Andy Greene (C) - #28 Damon Severson
#2 John Moore - #16 Steven Santini
#25 Mirco Mueller - #8 Will Butcher
#5 Dalton Prout

#35 Cory Schneider
#1 Keith Kinkaid

Scratches/Injuries:

#12 Ben Lovejoy (Healthy)
#21 Kyle Palmieri (A) (Lower body injury, did not travel)
#23 Stefan Noesen (Healthy)
#90 Marcus Johansson (A) (Concussion, day to day)

Edmonton Oilers Lineup

#19 Patrick Maroon - #97 Connor McDavid (C) - #29 Leon Draisaitl
#27 Milan Lucic (A) - #93 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (A) - #56 Kailer Yamamoto
#91 Drake Caggiula - #18 Ryan Strome - #58 Anton Slepyshev
#36 Jussi Jokinen - #55 Mark Letestu - #44 Zack Kassian

#25 Darnell Nurse - #6 Adam Larsson (A)
#77 Oscar Klefbom - #83 Matt Benning
#81 Yohann Auvitu - #4 Kris Russell

#33 Cam Talbot
#1 Laurent Brossoit

Scratches/Injuries:

#2 Andrej Sekera (Knee, IR)
#16 Jujhar Khaira (Healthy)
#26 Iiro Pakarinen (Healthy)
#62 Eric Gryba (Healthy)

LET'S GO DEVILS!!!

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[Bcap88]

Hallsy opens up the scoring and gets this team fired up.....heard it here first

 

[EliasFTW]

Hate missing Western Canada trip games and i will miss at least the first period. LGD! Score 7

 

[Darkauron]

f*** the oilers. I miss you though Adam..

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Bramskii]

Love the Dodgeball gifs. LGD

 

[Ripshot 43]

9 o clock start?

I’m an old man with a 2 year old... I may make it through 1 period.

 

[FooteBahl]

9 o clock start?

I’m an old man with a 2 year old... I may make it through 1 period.

I’m an old man with the 3 month old...I’ll be in bed during the pregame lol

 

[Ripshot 43]

I’m an old man with the 3 month old...I’ll be in bed during the pregame lol

Legitimately made me laugh.

 

[Blender]

LGD!

 

[HischierSeDgewOrk]

Old man with 2 and 4 year olds here plus I have to work from home at 10pm and i'll be watching the game!!!!

 

[The Wumpus]

That lineup really needs Palms and Mojo back.

Expecting Hall to be just a wee bit fired up about bringing his 9-2 team into town.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Old man with 2 and 4 year olds here plus I have to work from home at 10pm and i'll be watching the game!!!!

I think a Grumpy Old Men theme is brewing for a future GDT.

 

[Colin226]

So by Oilers fans' logic, because we are one of the best teams right now and they are one of the worst, the Devils clearly won the Hall/Larsson trade... am-i-right?

 

[johnny pierogi]

Old man with 2 and 4 year olds here plus I have to work from home at 10pm and i'll be watching the game!!!!

26 with no kids and don't have to work tomorrow.. still won't make it for puck drop.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

So by Oilers fans' logic, because we are one of the best teams right now and they are one of the worst, the Devils clearly won the Hall/Larsson trade... am-i-right?

Now it's shifted back to you can't judge the trade based on team success lol

Has there been a MoJo update?

 

[New Jersey]

western canada revenge tour boys.

cory got his laugh on wednesday, time for hallsy to have a night.

So by Oilers fans' logic, because we are one of the best teams right now and they are one of the worst, the Devils clearly won the Hall/Larsson trade... am-i-right?

yes

 

[britdevil]

I’m an old man with the 3 month old...

Grumpy old man with a 7 week old, living on another continent.

I feel your pain brother.

 

[Ben Matlock]

3 AM start? Maybe I'll get up for the third.

 

[TrufleShufle]

Grumpy old man with a 7 week old, living on another continent.

I feel your pain brother.

What continent is the 7 week old living on? Studying abroad or something?

Edit: and congratulations!

 

[DeVols]

We really need to get healthy up front. Hopefully the boys can squeak this one out against a struggling Oilers team. Need Schneids to have another big game.

This would be a great time for Pavel to step up and show us that dominant game of his we’ve seen in flashes this season.

 

[Alex NJD]

We really need to get healthy up front. Hopefully the boys can squeak this one out against a struggling Oilers team. Need Schneids to have another big game.

This would be a great time for Pavel to step up and show us that dominant game of his we’ve seen in flashes this season.

Agreed. With this depleted lineup a big game from Zacha would go a long way.

 

[SpeakingOfTheDevils]

First time this year we're dealing with an ugly forward group, but I'm not too worried. Hall's going to be beyond amped to bring his 1st place team back to Edmonton. Zacha has all the opportunity in the world tonight to have a great game.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I haven't watched an Oilers game this year yet, can anyone explain to me why they've stunk so bad?

You look at that team on paper, and it certainly doesn't seem like they should stink - they seem pretty decent to me.

This question would obviously best be answered on the Oilers board, but I fear if I posted it it would be misinterpreted as "trolling" and likely result in an imediate infraction.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Now it's shifted back to you can't judge the trade based on team success lol

Has there been a MoJo update?

No update, team was off yesterday. They were going to re-evaluate him and probably discuss it today.

I'd assume there's a morning skate since they had the prior day off, so we'll probably know more this afternoon. I'm thinking that he's probably not playing as that looked pretty rough, but Hynes did say it was them being cautious to keep him out the rest of the game Wednesday.

FYI guys, Gross had a pretty good article if no one saw it on Hall and him taking on a leadership role this year:

http://www.northjersey.com/story/sp...-larsson-team-scoring-leader-hynes/827320001/