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OIL SPILLS VIDEO Post-practice comments from Petrell, Jones, Nugent-Hopkins - Renney Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Ryan Jones Lennart Petrell Tom Renney RELATED Current Line Combinations Prior to hitting the road and boarding the team-s charter in a cross-national hop to St. Paul, Minnesota, the Oilers held a quick and spirited, one-hour practice at Rexall Place early Wednesday m games football orning. Rather than pushing the pace with high-speed, up-and-down line rushes, Head Coach Tom Renney approached the session with calculated drills intended to help counter the Wild-s repressive style. It-s a good thing, too, because the Oilers are still sporting a losing streak like no other; coming out un-victorious in 16 straight contests in the land of 10,000 lakes, with the team-s last w games football in coming on Jan. 16, 2007 by a 2-1 score. EXCELLING AT XCEL has put plenty into the club-s pre-season success in St. Paul. -It always seem like there's added stress going in there when you haven't won in a while,- said the 27-year-old winger, who's been moved up to play with Shawn Horcoff on the team's third line. -Even though it was a pre-season game, it-s good knowing you can win in there games football . -It's still a win and we're on a high going in there right now.- PETRELL ON PATROL donning the non-contact, baby blue sweater at practice, expect to see Lennart Petrell and with Anton Lander Sunday-s win was an emotional 60-minute clash, but as the players admitted, it sure as heck wasn-t a Picasso. -We've had a lot of good practices and I think they've helped us out,- Ryan Nugent-Hopki games football ns Ben Eager and Ryan Whitney Follow me on Twitter | @ryandittrick OIL SPILLS VIDEO Eager, Whitney, Omark - Renney comment AUDIO One of the heroes from Sunday's season opening victory was rookie centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins One player who didn't get a chance to compete in the season opener on Sunday was power forward Ben Eager On Monday, the Oilers placed defenceman Taylor Ch games football orney said it's tough to bid farewell to a teammate and friend, but he ultimately wishes Chorney the best of luck in St. Louis. -I played with him last year in OKC and got to know him even more this year,- Petry said. -You never like to see a teammate go, but it's a good situation for him to move on and get a chance with the Blues. It's part of the game and you've got to go with it.- No Hordichuk- games football MacIntyre Mash-Up gotten the chance to drop the gloves with former Oilers enforcer Steve MacIntyre, who was acquired by the Penguins during the off-season. But with both players receiving limited ice time in the tight game, the showdown never played out. -There's no doubt (it would have happened),- Hordichuk said. -He was already chirping on the bench. Pretty much every game you get into when the games football other team has a tough guy, if he's willing to go, I'm always willing to go. There was a couple times where I thought I was going to get on the ice with him, but we never got that chance to match up. I was just trying to get my feet moving out there and do what I do best, which is throw the body around.- The Saskatchewan natives first encountered each other in the WHL when they were trying out for games football the Saskatoon Blades in 1998. Hordichuk said they fought three times during training camp and then had a few more scraps when MacIntyre was traded to the Prince Albert Raiders. -- Ryan Frankson, edmontonoilers.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 OILERS vs. PENGUINS View tonight's Photo Gallery Under the Scope Read the Game Preview POST-GAME VIDEO CLIP: RNH's 1st career goal CLIP: Dubnyk games football 's great save THE OTHER SIDE: Penguins' Johnson, Letang - Coach Bylsma comment POST-GAME AUDIO Jordan Eberle Ryan Smyth Audio Highlights THREE STARS 1. Devan Dubnyk 3. R. Nugent-Hopkins - EDM EDM SHOOTOUT RESULTS 1. Jordan Eberle - Score 3. Linus Omark PIT SHOOTOUT RESULTS 1. Kris Letang - Miss UPDATE The Oilers' 2011-12 season record improves to 1-0-0. games football The Oilers hit the road for one game on Thursday when they visit the Minnesota Wild. Game time is 6:00 p.m. MDT and it can be seen on Sportsnet West. will replace Lennart Petrell VIEW LINE COMBINATIONS As 10:30am approached, the summer-long question was answered. Devan Dubnyk who sported an identical record. -A little bit,- Dubnyk said when asked about whether or not he was surprised to be games football getting the start. -I was certainly preparing for this situation. When you haven-t [started on opening-night] in the past, it-s a little surprising when it does happen.- Head Coach Tom Renney admitted that his decision didn-t come easy. Both -tenders did well in the pre-season, but one stood out as the team continues to develop a younger core in all positions. -I've liked both goalies' camps games football ,- he said. -There's a point where you've got to give a young guy a chance to assume that responsibility and see how he deals with it. We're still growing people here. We need to do this to see where [Dubnyk] is and where he handles everything. It's the next opportunity to learn what we've got. -Khabby is still a good mentor and excellent goaltender. He's going to play games for us this year an games football d be really important to our success.- Khabibulin took the news very well and is motivated to earn his next opportunity. BIG DEBUT , Jordan Eberle. This time around, 367 days later in the same location, another No. 1 overall pick drew the most attention as media scooped the pre-game story from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins The Oilers have a 35-25-5 all-time record vs. Pittsburgh, including a 22- games football 9-1 mark at home at Rexall Place. Edmonton is also 16-11-4 all-time in season openers, which includes a 14-7-3 line at home. Tom Renney is also an NHL-best 7-0-0 in season-openers as an NHL head coach. The pre-game stat-line is a positive one, but Renney is cautious in approach to this especially lethal Penguins squad. -They concern me,- he said. -They're a good team. I think the big thing i games football s that their attack game is very quick. They get pucks up and out and in as quick as anybody I've seen. They're playing a very complete game right now early in the season. That's the biggest thing we'll have to contend with. -We've got to play a mature game, play to our strengths and try to force them to defend, because we know how well they attack.- -- GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS games football
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