Scouting the Oilers

Condolences to Oilers coach Tom Renney, whose father passed away last night. Renney is expected to be behind the bench tonight. The Oilers will regain the services of Ales Hemsky, who missed the previous four games because of concussion symptoms, but are expected to remain without Jordan Eberle, who has a sprained ankle. Edmonton media members have reported today that Nikolai Khabibulin will start in goal and that enforcer Steve MacIntyre will not be in the lineup, which might influence Terry Murray’s lineup choices for the Kings. Edmonton’s Zack Stortini cleared waivers today and was assigned to the AHL. Here’s a look at a couple game previous from the Edmonton newspapers, followed by the expected lineups for the Oilers and Kings…

Oilers meet Kings after weeklong break (Edmonton Journal)

Stortini clears waivers, off to Oklahoma (Edmonton Sun)

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OILERS LINEUP
Taylor Hall-Shawn Horcoff-Ales Hemsky
Magnus Paajarvi-Sam Gagner-Linus Omark
Dustin Penner-Andrew Cogliano-Ryan Jones
Jean-Francois Jacques-Colin Fraser-Liam Reddox

Theo Peckham-Tom Gilbert
Ladislav Smid-Jeff Petry
Jim Vandermeer-Kurtis Foster

Nikolai Khabibulin

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KINGS LINEUP
Loktionov-Kopitar-Brown
Smyth-Stoll-Williams
Clifford-Lewis-Simmonds
Richardson-Handzus-Ponikarovsky

Mitchell-Doughty
Johnson-Scuderi
Martinez-Greene

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