Oilers at Blackhawks preview

OILERS (5-3-1) at BLACKHAWKS (6-3-2)
6 p.m. ET; NHLN, SN360, NBCSCH, NHL.TV

Kane has nine points (six goals, three assists) in his past five games, including goals in three straight. Chicago is on the second of a back to back after a 7-3 loss at the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
Connor McDavid (16 points; seven goals, nine assists) has points in eight of nine games to start the season for the Oilers, who are 5-1-1 in their past seven games. Edmonton also plays the second of a back to back following a 5-3 win at the Nashville Predators on Saturday.

Players to watch

Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl has eight points (five goals, three assists) in his past seven games.
Kane is the first Blackhawks player to score 11 goals in Chicago's first 11 games since Bobby Hull in 1967-1968.

They said it

"It's starting to get there. Obviously, I didn't start the season the way I hoped, but we've been winning, and really that's all that matters. I'm going to get my game going. I know that I'm positive in that." -- Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl
"I think they just outplayed us. Obviously, when you're getting outplayed, you're going to take some more penalties. That's kind of something that's been troubling us the first start of the season. We seem to be in the box a little bit too much, it kind of halts our game and our momentum. It's something to work on." -- Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane on the loss Saturday

Oilers projected lineup

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins -- Connor McDavid -- Kailer Yamamoto
Tobias Rieder -- Leon Draisaitl -- Alex Chiasson
Milan Lucic -- Ryan Strome -- Drake Caggiula
Cooper Marody -- Kyle Brodziak -- Jujhar Khaira
Oscar Klefbom -- Adam Larsson
Darnell Nurse -- Kris Russell
Evan Bouchard -- Kevin Gravel
Cam Talbot
Mikko Koskinen
Scratched:Jason Garrison, Jesse Puljujarvi
Injured:Matt Benning (undisclosed), Ty Rattie (upper body), Zack Kassian (undisclosed)

Blackhawks projected lineup

Alex DeBrincat -- Jonathan Toews -- Dominik Kahun
Brandon Saad -- Artem Anisimov -- Patrick Kane
Alexandre Fortin --
Luke Johnson
-- Nick Schmaltz
Chris Kunitz -- Marcus Kruger -- John Hayden
Duncan Keith -- Henri Jokiharju
Erik Gustafsson -- Brent Seabrook
Brandon Manning -- Jan Rutta
Cam Ward
Corey Crawford
Scratched:Andreas Martinsen, David Kampf, Brandon Davidson
Injured:Connor Murphy (back)

Status report

Edmonton's lineup from Saturday will stay the same with Talbot starting.

Stat pack

Koskinen won his first NHL game since Feb 11, 2011. The seven years and 258 days between his regular-season wins is the third-longest gap by a goalie in NHL history behind Benny Grant (nine years, 322 days) and Hap Holmes (eight years, 267 days). ... Saturday marked the earliest in a season (11 games) that Kane reached the 10-goal mark. His previous NHL career best was 15 games (2015-16).