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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2009The Team Today Archives - HORCOFF GAME TIME DECISION MULTIMEDIA Nilsson, Penner and Pat Quinn in Detroit AUDIO INTERVIEWS Head Coach: Pat Quinn Robert Nilsson The Oilers landed this afternoon in Detroit where they will begin their long road trip. They found their way to the Joe Louis Arena for an off-day practice. Robert Nilsson is expected back in the lineu all football teams p tomorrow night after being sidelined with a concussion back on November 10th. As anticipated, Coach Quinn kept the same lines for practice today for the most part. On the clicking top line he had Gagner, Brule and Penner. The second line showed Moreau, Cogliano and Potulny. Third line has Nilsson back in with O'Sullivan and Jacques. Last but never least had Stortini, McDonald and O'Marra. Def all football teams ensive pairings had Strudwick with Staios, Gilbert with Souray and Smid with Visnovsky. Horcoff and Stone were both on the ice this afternoon in Detroit however neither one were on a specific line. Everyone knows how tough it is to play against the Detroit Red Wings and playing in the Joe Louis is never an easy task. Well today Pat Quinn shared what the team practiced and how improving specific th all football teams ings will allow the Oilers to keep up with the offensive Wings. -We wanted quick puck movement from our defensemen, that's the real key here,- said Pat Quinn. -A lot of the drills are designed around our defense moving the puck to our forwards. We practiced a lot of attack drills so that we can get used to throwing a little more pucks in the net. They still want to stick handle and pass it into all football teams the net. We're encouraging more shots on the rush and more shots in the offensive zone.- -They are very well coached,- said winger Dustin Penner TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009The Team Today Archives - AUDIO INTERVIEWS , who also missed yesterday's skate due to a doctor's appointment, did practice today. Gagner had been experiencing some discomfort with swollen lymph nodes. He did have them ch all football teams ecked out once, but just to be on the safe side, he had a biopsy done yesterday. -I was sick about a month ago when a lot of the guys were sick. I had some lymph notes on my neck flare up,- Gagner said. -I got an ultrasound on it and it didn't show anything but I got a biopsy on it just to make sure and have that piece of mind. The tests will take a few days but the doctors are pretty convinced all football teams that there is nothing abnormal about it.- -They wanted to check it out,- said Coach Pat Quinn. -They don't know the information yet so they've taken a little piece. Anytime you have something of that nature, there is always a flutter in your heart until you find out for sure.- INJURY INFO FROM PISANI AND STONE It is unknown when Fernando Pisani will be healthy enough to play again. On a all football teams brighter note, Ryan Stone Now that Movember is over and the boys can go back to being boys, we had a chance to get a final statement from the participants. In first place with the most donations received was Ryan Stone was a little lost today and seemed to cherish his prized moustache. -It's a tough day for me. I feel like I lost a part of me. Fortunately it was the worst part of me, it didn all football teams 't look very good. I didn't get many compliments on it but I think I suprised some people with the ability to grow one. When Mac [Colin McDonald] came up, he had a pretty good one. He looked like a highway patrol cop. - -I think Storts shaved a couple times but no one noticed because twelve hours later he had another moustache,- said Patrick O'Sullivan. -Stortini was quite impressive, he probab all football teams ly had a mustache when he was eleven or twelve years old.- LARGE GROUP SKATES MONDAY MULTIMEDIA AUDIO INTERVIEWS and Shawn Horcoff and Robert Nilsson will also be good to go. Stone has been out with a knee injury since October 22, while Nilsson has been sidelined with a concussion suffered November 10. -Both of them have been cleared from a medical standpoint,- Quinn said. -They'll get the all football teams se three practice days and that'll help.- KHABI STILL HURTING Goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin out for the remainder of the regular season, Tambellini said the entire organization needs to look on the bright side. -The half full answer . . . is that it does present opportunity, whether it's in goal or it's in some offensive situations without Hemsky. You work a lot in your career to be presented w all football teams ith an opportunity. The biggest thing is making sure you're ready to take advantage of that.- THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING GM Steve Tambellini HEMSKY, KHABI AMONG THOSE MISSING AT PRACTICE MULTIMEDIA AUDIO INTERVIEWS , who continues to suffer from a sore back, and Ales Hemsky With Hemsky out indefinitely, the Oilers recalled forwards Ryan O'Marra back to Springfield. O'Marra an all football teams d McDonald aren't the only noteworthy players who will arrive in Edmonton over the next few hours: the San Jose Sharks -- including forward Dany Heatley -- are also eagerly anticipated. This past summer, the Oilers' reported efforts to trade Andrew Cogliano, and Ladislav Smid -If he's going to be in the corner with the puck, I'm going to try to run him over. But I try to do it every game wit all football teams h other players. I've got no hard feelings towards him,- Smid said. It's been six days since Khabibulin missed his first game due to injury and, accordingly, five days since Devan Dubnyk KHABI OUT, NILSSON - STONE IN MULTIMEDIA AUDIO INTERVIEWS was the most notable absentee, with Jeff Deslauriers manning the nets during the drills. -Khabibulin was not able to practice today. I don't know all football teams how long this is going to last so Deslauriers has the games for now,- said Quinn. Taylor Chorney and Robert Nilsson kept numbers high on the ice. After pulling out all the big stops last night and earning himself his first career shutout, Jeff Deslauriers said Shawn HorcoffHe was solid in there and made some great saves and earned the shut out. He's going to be a big part of our success in t all football teams he near future.- all football teams
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