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OIL SPILLS VIDEOS Tuesday News - Notes NHL Goals of the Week NHL Hits of the Week AUDIO INTERVIEWS Kurtis Foster Taylor Hall Ales Hemsky Magnus Paajarvi Tom Renney RELATED ITEMS Oilers Report Card: Week 2 HEADLINES The skate felt fresh, partly because Head Coach Tom Renney and his crew juggled the forwards and debuted new line combinations. The top thr foot ball game ee lines were as follows: Paajarvi - Horcoff - Hemsky The fourth line of Ryan Jones, and Zack Stortini When asked about moving up to the top line with Ales Hemsky, rookie Magnus Paajarvi was relocated beside Andrew Cogliano. The first-rounder is no longer skating on the top line, but he isn't letting the change get to him. -Coming to the rink, you've got to kind of be ready for anythin foot ball game g, and that's kind of your job being an athlete, you can't get down just because you go down a line,- Hall said. -These are two good players that I'm playing with as well, so I'm not too worried about it. It's a long season, there's going to be more line juggling than just today, so it should be fun.- Renney reiterated Hall's comments, advising media not to read too much into the changes. -W foot ball game e've got a couple of back-to-back days that we've got to work with here, so we thought we'd throw just some different combinations together, have a look at them, and try not to get too serious about drawing any conclusions just yet,- the coach explained. FOUR-DAY BREAK CONTINUES Colin Fraser -I think it's a double-edged sword,- Fraser said. -At this time of the year, I think it's good tha foot ball game t we get the practice and go over some things, but at the end of the day when you're in February-March and you're playing every second day, you would like to have a couple games in these days off so it wouldn't be so bunched together at that time of the year.- Renney said four days off can be -counter-productive- but added he has faith in his team's ability to play well Thursday. -These guys foot ball game are really, really good at paying attention, they're really good coming to the rink ready to work, they bring a great attitude individually and as a group,- Renney explained. -I'm not really concerned at all yet, at this point in time, whether or not they're going to come prepared and engaged. -But you don't want it to cost you a hockey game to find out exactly where they are with that, and that' foot ball game s our job as coaches to make sure that that doesn't happen.- ASK-AN-OILER: SHAWN HORCOFF Shawn Horcoff Your favourite fan-driven Q - A is back! Captain Shawn Horcoff ONE-ON-ONE. -Growing up playing hockey, my dad instilled in me the importance of honoring your heroes and idols. Because of that I wear my dad's hockey number on my jersey every night and my son is now wearing number 27 foot ball game to honor his hero. I was wondering if there is any significance to why you wear 27 or, when you were with Anaheim, 17?- Dustin Penner DUSTIN: MONDAY, OCTOBER 18 BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN Ladislav Smid GET TICKETS Oct. 21: Oilers vs. Wild HEADLINES a disappointing first road trip in which the Oilers dropped games in Minnesota and Calgary, the team rested Sunday and returned foot ball game to Rexall Place for an off-ice workout Monday morning. Edmonton had a successful start to the season with big wins over Calgary and Florida, but two losses since then have tempered optimism in Oil Country. The Oilers are preaching patience and urging fans, media and players themselves to lay off the panic button. -There are things now that we have to eliminate from our game, no question a foot ball game bout that, but we have to stick with it, and that's probably the patience part is just keep hammering that through and make sure the guys understand that,- Head Coach Tom Renney explained. -We can recognize parts of players' games, and our game in general, we just cannot have. I think that the Edmonton fan will remind us of that, if anybody does.- Growing pains are to be expected, he added. foot ball game -You want to minimize the pain, you want to grow quick, but you know you've got to go through it,- Renney said. -I remind myself of that too. I have to make sure that I kind of keep myself in check. It's not productive to blow a gasket and go kind of cuckoo coaching this team out of these circumstances right now. -There is a time, and it's coming, where the demands become greater, the attention to foot ball game detail is pressed into them deeper than it is now. I'm looking forward to that, but certainly my cue will be them and the mental state of this team, and where the effort is.- WEEKEND REVIEW said. -We feel like Khabi played great for us again, and we're relying on him a little too much. We've got to try and play in their end a little more, generate chances off the forecheck, get pucks in deep, foot ball game and limit the turnovers. -I feel like it's a work in progress and we've got to keep driving it in and keep getting better.- Ladislav Smid Oilers vs. Wild coming up Thursday ONE-ON-ONE. - Ladislav Smid LADISLAV: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT THE MORNING SKATE and Colin Fraser . In the season-opening Battle of Alberta October 7, MacIntyre thrilled fans by knocking out Calgary' foot ball game s Raitis Ivanans in a fight. Oilers Head Coach Tom Renney added that he had not yet decided if Zack Stortini After suffering their first loss of the season Thursday night vs. the Wild, the Oilers are looking to get back in the win column tonight. With only three goals in three games, the Flames have struggled out of the gate, but the Oilers aren't taking their provincial rivals lightly. foot ball game -They're a much better team than their record would suggest, and I know they believe that inside, and so they should,- Renney said. -We have to man up. This is one of those games where we really have to perform well in every aspect of the game in order to have success.- -We know they're going to come out hard -- they always do -- and they'll be extra motivated tonight,- captain Shawn Horcof foot ball game f The Oilers always have a lot of fan support when they play in Calgary, but tonight's game will receive an extra jolt of copper and blue thanks to Taylor Hall Following tonight's game, the Oilers will fly north to Edmonton and prepare for their next game, a rematch vs. Minnesota Thursday, October 21. FLAMES 5 - OILERS 3 registered his first NHL goal and assist in the game, supplementing foot ball game markers by Ales Hemsky. At the other end of the ice, Nikolai Khabibulin UNDER THE SCOPE Author: Jen Sharpe | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Bob Stauffer foot ball game
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