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CBJ G59 v Edmonton Oilers -- New Favourite Landing Spot

February 25, 2023, 5:39 AM ET [1 Comments]
Zak MacMillan
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Happy Kids Day!

This afternoon, the Columbus Blue Jackets and Edmonton Oilers meet for their second and final time of the 2022-2023 season.

The Kids Day game welcomes the youth of the city and promotes the players when they were younger and growing up as hockey fans.

Edmonton is coming off a dominating 7-2 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins, where the fans called for the general manager's job to be fired, and also waived Finnish winger Kasperi Kapanen.

Connor McDavid is the best player in the world. Soaking a game in person like I did when seeing him in December, he is scary when he touches the puck. 109 points in 59 games played this season.

This roster needs to add to contend to win the west. Erik Karlsson, Jakob Chychrun, and Vladislav Gavrikov have all been linked. Maybe this is the landing spot for Gavrikov?

Projected Lineups

Leon Drasatil--Connor McDavid--Derek Ryan
Zach Hyman--Ryan Nugent-Hopkins--Kailer Yamamoto
Warren Foegle--Ryan McLeod--Jesse Puljujarvi
Klim Kostin--Derek Shore--Mattias Janmark

Darnell Nurse--Cody Ceci
Brett Kulak--Tyson Barrie
Phillip Broberg--Evan Bouchard

Jack Campbell
Stuart Skinner

Scratched -- Vincent Desharnais

Injured -- Ryan Murray, Evander Kane

Columbus Blue Jackets

Johnny Gaudreau--Boone Jenner--Patrik Laine
Kent Johnson--Cole Sillinger--Kirill Marchenko
Liam Foudy--Jack Roslovic--Emil Bemstrom
Eric Robinson--Sean Kuraly--Mathieu Olivier

Tim Breni--Erik Gudbranson
Gavin Bayreuther--Adam Boqvist
Nick Blankenburg--Andrew Peeke

Elvis Merzlikins
Joonas Korpsialo

Scratched -- Lane Pederson, Vladislav Gavrikov

Injured -- Zach Werenski, Jakub Voracek, Gustav Nyquist, Jake Bean, Yegor Chinakov, Carson Meyer, Justin Danforth


Players to Watch

Edmonton -- Leon Drasatil -- always producing with or without McDavid.

Columbus -- Johnny Gaudreau -- second game back from injury

Predicted Final Score

EDM - 4
CBJ - 1
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