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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 SOLVING SPECIAL TEAMS Oilers This Week Today's media coverage After dropping their fourth straight game on Saturday night and giving up a handful of power play goals yet again, the Oilers spent a good majority of their Sunday morning going over video as they prepare to turn things around on their upcoming three-game road swing. -I'd like to be able to put my finger football videos on one issue but it's more than just that. It's a combination of people, execution,- said Oilers head coach Tom Renney. The penalty kill started out great with a shorthanded goal from Jordan Eberle JACQUES GETTING CLOSER The only Oilers player who was on the ice Sunday was forward J-F Jacques. Jacques projects a mid-November return as he continues to recover from a back injury that has ha football videos d him sidelined since February. -Since the beginning, it's always been a work in progress, going week-by-week to see what's going on,- Jacques said. -I still have a little bit of tightness in my lower back that we want to get rid of before it's time to play.- The rough-and-tumble forward was working with Oilers Skating - Skills Coach Steve Serdachny and looks to be skating with the Oil Kings football videos next week while the Oilers are on the road. -Next road trip I'd like to hopefully get on the road and get playing by mid-November or something.- Head coach Tom Renney agreed that timeline would likely fit should Jacques experience no setbacks. -It's going to be a little while yet. Anybody that's been on the shelf for a certain number of games I've got a little protocol that I like to implement football videos that will suggest whether he's game-ready from a metabolic point of view,- Renney stated. -We're a few weeks away yet with Jocko.- BARONS CLIP BULLDOGS IN OT One day after the Edmonton Oilers dropped a decision on CBC, their AHL affiliate in Oklahoma City pulled out a victory on the same network. Alex Giroux scored with just over a minute to play in overtime as the Barons defated Hamilto football videos n 3-2. Jeff Petry In the latest edition of our fan question series, Daniel from Schweinfurt, Germany submitted a question for Jordan Eberle DANIEL: and how does that help you improve your game?- JORDAN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 AT THE MORNING SKATE moves in to replace Theo Peckham Although the Oilers came out on the losing end of Thursday's game vs. the Wild, the club's youngest player, T football videos aylor Hall and Gilbert Brule Hall and all his teammates will need to come together to pull off a win tonight. The Sharks are a talented group, but Oilers coaches and players are prepared for the attack. -The keys are definitely going to be that we continue with the pressure that we exerted in the last two periods of the Minnesota game,- Krueger explained. -We want to be in their face, we football videos want to get our forecheck alive and go in for that, we need to be smart in the neutral zone with the puck, we want to continue to improve defensively. I thought we didn't give up a lot in the last 55 minutes of the game, and we've got to keep up that stance.- -We're excited to go at them,- he added. -It's a big challenge for us, we'll get to know our strengths tonight.- The Oilers struck e football videos arly with a shorthanded goal from Jordan Eberlebut it was all Sharks after that as San Jose cruised to a 6-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night on the strength of three power play goals. READ MORE OIL SPILLS VIDEOS IN FOCUS: Looking on the Bright Side AUDIO INTERVIEWS Head Coach Tom Renney Colin Fraser Taylor Hall Ryan Whitney Jim Vandermeer RELATED ITE football videos MS Oilers vs. Wild RecapOilers This Week The Edmonton Oilers have brought a new attitude to the 2010-11 season; an attitude of enjoyment, pride, and fun to a locker room that didn't see much of that a season ago. Today's practice at Rexall Place was another stone in the wall of change. After suffering their third consecutive defeat one night ago to the visiting Minnesota Wild, the mood aroun football videos d the rink wasn't exactly a highly spirited atmosphere. MOVING FORWARD RUSH HALF-HOUR The lines were the same as last night, although there was one notable change on the blueline. Young defender Theo Peckham nursed a minor hand injury he suffered last night, meaning veteran Jason Strudwick Jim Vandermeer agreed that the increased practice time has helped, but game-action has proven to football videos be the true test, where the Oilers did have some positives to take from last night. -The day before the game in practice, we really worked on faceoffs; getting five guys involved, making a bigger battle in the faceoff circle and it definitely paid off last night.- However, Vandermeer was also quick to caution that there was still room for improvement. -They really took it to us on the pow football videos erplay and we knew we couldn't give them as many opportunities as the last time we played them, and we didn't do that. So those are some key areas that we've worked on in practice, made mental notes of it, and it definitely improved from last game against them.- Fellow blueliner Ryan Whitney One night removed from his best game of the season and in the NHL for the Oilers, Taylor Hall Zack football videos Stortini After having a difficult first two shifts of the game where the fourth line was scored against on both, Zack Stortini rode the pine for the rest of the night. Colin Fraser received a misconduct penalty. Head Coach Tom Renney was blunt with his answer on the decision, but insists it was the right move to maintain the flow to the game and to accurately send a message to the players. football videos -It wasn't a lack of energy. It was a little bit of missed assignments and maybe reading the wrong cues. You need to get a message across. It was their turn and it won't be the last time that happens to somebody. There seemed to be a really good flow with three (lines).- Colin Fraser Edmonton wraps up a quick two-game homestand tomorrow night when the San Jose Sharks roll into Rexall Place. football videos There are still single and standing room tickets available for tomorrow night, so act quickly before they sell out! In the latest edition of our fan question series, Amanda of Edmonton submitted this question for Andrew Cogliano AMANDA: How do you deal with all the fan attention? It must get crazy sometimes. What's the weirdest fan encounter you've had? -I think you just have to turn a blind eye football videos to it. There's some fans in different cities that heckle and want to get under your skin, but I think you've got to be professional and find a way to stay away from that. For me, I haven't had any bad experiences which is a good thing; but the only thing I can think of is that there's a guy in LA that sits behind the bench every game, he's always yelling at players, and it's pretty funny. At some football videos point you have to laugh it off and turn a blind eye like I said. It's good when you're in the community that you have fans, and kids especially, that look up to guys like us; and when they come up for autographs I'm more than happy to sign things and talk about the season and the team. In a city like Edmonton, there's great fans and great people here and like I said, there's just fan support fo football videos r sure.- Fill out the form on the right to submit a question for one of the Oilers. We will ask one of the submitted questions after the next practice and will post the answer in the next Team Today. Author: Ryan Dittrick | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Bob Stauffer - Tom Gazzola THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 OILERS VS. WILD AUDIO INTERVIEWS Andrew Cogliano Shawn Horcoff Assistan football videos t Coach Steve Smith HEADLINES Paajarvi - Horcoff - Eberle Jones - Fraser - Stortini Andrew Cogliano and Gilbert Brule It's been a week since the Oilers last played the Wild, and the club is gunning for a better outcome. In the game in Minnesota, the Oilers surrendered four power-play goals, helping the Wild become the top power-play unit in the league. Renney said discipline will football videos be key tonight. -Often times at home, there's a tendency to try to do the extraordinary, and with that comes frustration at times, and with frustration comes penalties,- he explained. -There's a domino effect there in terms of the discipline. I think that might be the common denominator with respect to our success at home here moving forward.- Assistant Coach Steve Smith is looking forw football videos ard to the contest, especially since the club hasn't played since last Saturday. -It has been pretty difficult to get into any kind of a game rhythm at this point in time, and we are excited about getting back in front of our fans again tonight and, quite frankly, excited about getting back at the Minnesota Wild,- he said. -There's a little bit of a revenge factor going on right now. Their football videos power-play was pretty spectacular last game and our penalty killing struggled a little bit, so we look forward to getting back at it tonight.- Captain Shawn Horcoff Despite benefiting from five more power-plays and tallying 11 more shots than their opponents, the Oilers were unable to battle back from an early 2-0 deficit and lost 4-2 to the Wild Thursday night. Ales Hemsky scored Ed football videos monton's first two goals, while rookie Taylor Hall finished with 21 saves in the loss. Under the Scope Author: Jen Sharpe | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Tom Gazzola OIL SPILLS VIDEO INTERVIEWS IN FOCUS: Line Juggling AUDIO INTERVIEWS Gilbert Brule Jordan Eberle Ladislav Smid Tom Renney HEADLINES manned the left wing with Shawn Horcoff, while Taylor Hall and Gil football videos bert Brule Yesterday Renney told media not to read too much into the new lines, and today he hinted that the current combinations should stick for tomorrow's game vs. Minnesota. -[Tuesday's practice] was maybe a different venue, a couple days off, just a little different look at the practice through different combinations of people,- he said. -There's a chance today that that's what we would football videos go into tomorrow night with based on what you saw.- PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT? can see both sides of the argument. -We have a lot of new faces and it's good to kind of work on things in practice, but it's probably a double-edged sword,- the rookie said. -At this time of year, you want to play games and then maybe at the end of the year, when you have a lot of games in a row, you probably want football videos to mix in a day off or a practice. -But you can't complain obviously. The schedule's going to get pretty rough here, so it's good to rest up.- WELL RESTED VS. WILD in Minnesota thinks specialty teams will be key in the upcoming rematch at Rexall Place. -You could see in Minnesota, they scored on their power-play four times and that pretty much decided the game, so we'll have to be really sol football videos id on our PK, stay out of the box, and be good on our power-play, and on five-on-five hopefully we'll get some goals as well,- the defenceman said. Brule added the team will need to put forth a consistent effort. -I thought we had a couple decent periods in Minnesota, but we have to put a full 60 together here,- he said. GET TICKETS FOR MINNESOTA GAME RALLY CALL Author: Jen Sharpe | ed football videos montonoilers.com, with files from Bob Stauffer - Tom Gazzola Author: Ryan Dittrick | edmontonoilers.com football videos
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