L-GDT: Canucks @ Oilers Oct 11/25 @ 7 PM PST SN/CBC/CITYTV

[donlever]

Alright Strangelgrove.

We will attempt this day prior GDT once again.

Another of your hated rivals.

A little more Doc power for this one please and thank you.

[rats19]

Consider it done Donny…

4-3 nucks

[theman]

I was going to say 4 - 3 but someone else beat me to it. So I will say 3 - 2 Good guys.

[rats19]

I was going to say 4 - 3 but someone else beat me to it. So I will say 3 - 2 Good guys.

No law against 2 being right

[Cousin Strawberry]

3-0 Canucks.

[donlever]

The next 7 games of the schedule, irrespective of the roadie, are not overly daunting.

Pull out a win in Edmonton, get a little early season mojo going, and there is a real opportunity, with many eminently winnable games over the next 12 days, to set themselves up very nicely to promote opportunity for a successful season.

After tonight the toughest game on paper is Dallas where we will be a betting dog, other than that the rest should be even money at worst.

[Cousin Strawberry]

And Van always plays well in Dallas for. Some reason.

[donlever]

Rumour has it we get Pickard tonight.

Hopefully we go with Demko.

Were I to have lineup input I'd then roll-out:

Lankinen
Demko
Lankinen
Demko
Demko
Lankinen

....over that series of games.

[Cornuck]

I'll join Rats with the 4-3 win - we got this!

[Picker of Cherries]

Quinn - no points first game. Expecting at least two tonight. 6-3 Canucks.
Want Hughes and a Makar to both play 82 games this season and see who wins the Norris. Whoever plays the most games has been winning it lately. Hope they both stay healthy.
Dream series would have the Avs and Canucks meet in the playoffs to see those two go head-to-head.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Rumour has it we get Pickard tonight.

Hopefully we go with Demko.

Were I to have lineup input I'd then roll-out:

Lankinen
Demko
Lankinen
Demko
Demko
Lankinen

....over that series of games.

I'd rotate through with Lank every third start and back to backs irregardless of who they're playing

[Cornuck]

Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk -- Elias Pettersson -- Brock Boeser
Arshdeep Bains -- Filip Chytil -- Conor Garland
Evander Kane -- Braeden Cootes -- Jonathan Lekkerimaki
Drew O’Connor -- Aatu Ratay -- Kiefer Sherwood

Quinn Hughes -- Filip Hronek
Marcus Pettersson -- Tyler Myers
Derek Forbort -- Elias Pettersson
Jake Bean -- Brayden Pachal

Thatcher Demko
Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Linus Karlsson, Victor Mancini
Injured: Teddy Blueger (lower body), Guillaume Brisebois (lower body), Nils Hoglander (lower body)

coilers projected lineup

Leon Draisaitl -- Connor McDavid -- Trent Frederic
Andrew Mangiapane -- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins -- Matthew Savoie
Isaac Howard -- Adam Henrique -- David Tomasek
Vasily Podkolzin -- Noah Philp -- Kasperi Kapanen

Mattias Ekholm -- Evan Bouchard
Darnell Nurse -- Alec Regula
Brett Kulak -- Ty Emberson

Calvin Pickard
Stuart Skinner

Scratched: Curtis Lazar, Troy Stecher
Injured: Mattias Janmark (undisclosed), Zach Hyman (wrist), Jake Walman (undisclosed)

Status report

The Canucks are expected to dress the same lineup they deployed in a season-opening 5-1 victory against the Calgary Flames on Thursday ... Nurse will play after missing practice Friday because of an illness. ... The Oilers will dress the same 18 skaters they used in a 4-3 season-opening shootout loss to the Flames on Wednesday.

[donlever]

Canucks projected lineup

Jake Bean -- Brayden Pachal

[Cornuck]

Guess that will teach me to copy and paste when I'm in a hurry!

[Tciso]

Edmonton's bottom 6 doesn't scare me. It kinda looks like a tire fire (apologies to the War Giraffe).