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OIL SPILLS VIDEO INTERVIEWS Colin Fraser Tom Gilbert AUDIO INTERVIEWS Tom Renney Colin FraserOilers This Week Today's media coverage After coming away with four out of a possible six points on their recent road swing, Edmonton returned home to Rexall Place today and held an hour-long practice that pushed the pace and put the players back to work in a hurry. With an extr football standings a day in between games before the Vancouver Canucks come to town on Tuesday night, the Oilers spent the bulk of today's session working on end-to-end skating drills, which included a heavy emphasis on heart-pumping one-on-one notably absent from today's practice, spot placement was necessary to complete each line. Although Hemsky did not participate in today's session, he's not injured and was in football standings attendance at the rink as he conducted a -maintendance day.- The rotation on the fourth line continued, with all of Steve MacIntyre and Ryan Jones. The story was the same on the blueline as well, with Jason Strudwick parsing duty on the third pairing with Theo Peckham While the Oilers only came away with one victory on the road trip, -- against the Stanley Cup champions, however -- the Oile football standings rs skated away without a single regulation loss. Losing their first two games in a shootout following some impressive third period come-from-behind efforts has helped the team bond and build some confidence moving forward. -We did a lot of things that were better on the ice, especially as a team. Obviously it's nice scoring seven goals against a team like Chicago. But, I think a lot of it showed a football standings lot of our character when we came back in the first two games; never gave up, our first periods were great, and that's what we're looking for,- remarked defenceman Tom Gilbert agreed with Gilbert, but cautions that there's still plenty of work to be done. -We're making steps in the right direction, obviously. With the last game in Chicago, I think we had a really good start; still need things football standings to work on. I don't think we can be satisfied with the win -- we still gave up four goals and whatnot. They still had some chances, but I think it was a step in the right direction for us.- Tom Renney COACH COMPLIMENTS -I like the fact that we really competed for three periods. I liked our attack game, I thought our transition game was good, I thought we moved the puck through the neutral football standings zone with quickness, I thought we got it to the net with purpose. For the most part, we didn't lose people in the offensive zone or on our forecheck.- NUMBER ONE'S FIRST 's first career NHL goal scored his first and second career goals in consecutive nights, the 18-year old was thrilled but wanted to keep an even keel as he hopes to continue his recent offensive production into Tuesday nigh football standings t. -It's definitely nice to get that first one out of the play, and once I kind of did that I was a little more relaxed out there. Playing with Horc (Shawn Horcoff), it's not hard to get points if you do the right things. It was a pretty good weekend for myself.- While his on-ice performance certainly got a rise out of his teammates when he scored in Columbus, Hall says the outpouring of sup football standings port from family and friends has been tremendous. -It was good. Everyone was pretty happy to see me get that goal, obviously; a lot of text messages and all that kind of stuff, so it's good to have people support you. I have some family coming here soon, so that should be nice.-WHAT'S NEXT ONE-ON-ONE: KENTON:This being your first season in the NHL, how is the OHL compared to the NHL? How football standings much harder is it?- TAYLOR: Author: Ryan Dittrick | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Tom Gazzola FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 OILERS at BLACKHAWKS: OIL SPILLS PRE-GAME VIDEO IN FOCUS Pre-Game at Chicago THE OTHER SIDE: Blackhawks Pre-Game POST-GAME VIDEO Watch Video Highlights IN FOCUS: Oilers Post-Game Reaction THE OTHER SIDE: Blackhawks Post-Game More Highlights GAME football standings PHOTO GALLERY Oilers at Blackhawks will get the start in goal tonight for the Oilers after Devan Dubnyk and Steve MacIntyre did skate today and he will make a call on his playing status as well. THE RETURN OF FRASER makes his return to the city where he collected a Stanley Cup ring last season. Fraser stated that he was looking forward to tonight's match-up but that it'll be a little strang football standings e to be on the opposite side of the ice. -I've never really been in this situation before, being traded and playing against friends. It'll be different but I'm really looking forward to it. It should be fun,- Fraser remarked. Blackhawks forward Fernando Pisani will also be facing his former team for the first time. -From a distance, watching him play I always had a huge respect for his ability football standings to play a complete game,- said Renney. THE DAY AFTER wasn't getting too high or too low the day after he scored his first career NHL goal. -It's nice to get that first one out of the way but I can't not have a good game tonight because then it's not going to mean anything. I have to be consistent every night.- The marker was a timely one as it knotted the game up at 2-2 and earned the Oi football standings lers a point in the come-from-behind win. Tonight Hall has another motivation, playing against the Blackhawks' young superstars. -It's obviously very exciting. It's different than playing the other superstars in the league because these guys are so young and so close to our age,- said Hall. -At the same time, this would be a huge win for us.- The Edmonton Oilers took a three-goal outburst football standings in a minute and nine seconds in the opening period and carried that to a 7-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center on Friday night. Seven Oilers had two points on the night including a pair of goals from Sam Gagner stopped 37 of 41 shots for the win. READ MORE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 AT THE MORNING SKATE Jack - Bob's Preview Fresh from a spirited comeback from a three-goal football standings deficit that saw the team earn a point in Calgary, the Oilers arrived in Columbus yesterday evening and hit the ice today at Nationwide Arena. Kurtis Foster comes back in to replace the Oilers defenceman against the Blue Jackets. Steve MacIntyre in the press box. DUBNYK GETS THE START gets the call in net. Devan Dubnyk Taylor Hall Quietly, Gilbert Brule BLUE JACKETS 3 - OILERS 2 (SO) s football standings cored his first-career NHL goal in the third period to tie the game and Devan Dubnyk Author: Marc Ciampa | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Tom Gazzola football standings
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