The Oilers play their second last game before a nine-day bye week and all-star break tonight against the Carolina Hurricanes.
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EDMONTON, AB - Less than 24 hours after losing 5-2 to the Calgary Flames, the Oilers will get a shot at returning to the win column and playoff race when they host the Carolina Hurricanes Sunday night.
The Oilers are 3-2 in their last five outings, securing victories over the Florida Panthers, Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks. The club will face the Canes then Detroit Red Wings before leaving for the NHL All-Star break.
"If we can come out of the next two games with four points then that's the biggest thing," said netminder Cam Talbot, who will make his 25th start of the season.
"If we can go 5-2 during this stretch then that's a pretty nice way to head into the break and feel good about ourselves."
Oilers Head Coach Ken Hitchcock provided his scouting report on the Hurricanes Sunday morning, saying they resemble the Calgary Flames.
"It's a mirror image of Calgary," Hitchcock began. "They put high pressure on you, they pinch their defencemen, they activate their defencemen, they got great mobility on the back end and they use it."
Hitchcock said his club will have to be prepared for how Carolina employs their defencemen. Five Hurricane rearguards are in double-digit point totals, with Jaccob Slavin leading the way with five goals and 18 points this year.
"The one difference offensively is that Carolina promotes that their defencemen go in and stay in," Hitchcock said. "So, you're defending more numbers than you have normally. You're always looking at four players inside the top of the circles and not three.
"To me, they just try to make you make errors in your own end of the rink or on your side of the red line and force you on your heels."
PLAYOFF PUSH CONTINUES
Saturday's loss to the Flames put the Oilers two points back of the final Western Conference wild card with three teams ahead of them in line.
The Minnesota Wild currently hold down the final wild card position and are tied in points with the Anaheim Ducks but have a game in hand, while the Vancouver Canucks idle ahead of Edmonton with 50 points.
"Last night was two points and we missed on it," said Hitchcock. "We're 3-2 at home and we got a chance to have a winning record if we do well in the next two games. We want to have that leading into the break and we got our work cut out."
Collecting points is the imperative going forward for the Oilers and after losing out on a pair on Saturday, the club will dig deep in grabbing two on Sunday.
"It's those two points that matter and if we got to get them tonight, we got to get them tonight," said Hitchcock.
FATIGUE FACTOR
Saturday's Battle of Alberta saw everything from offensive flare to physical fury between the Oilers and Flames. Back-to-backs can deplete the energy level of a club but the Orange & Blue will have to look past that if they hope to come out on top Sunday.
Talbot intends to control the second game of the back-to-back as best he can from the crease.
"It was a big emotional game last night," Talbot, who is 9-13-2 this season with a 3.17 goals-against average and .896 save percentage, said. "As a goaltender coming into a back-to-back, you try to control the game early. Not give up too many rebounds, put pucks where they can't get them in second chances and just try to manage the game the best I can until we get our legs under us."
For Oilers Captain Connor McDavid, who was bloodied and stitched up by the end of Saturday's match, back-to-backs aren't as big of an issue as many make it out to be for the players.
"You play back-to-back all the way up (in minor hockey)," McDavid said. "In junior, you play three in three. It's nothing new."
Hitchcock echoed the sentiment Talbot shared. Saturday's loss was consuming but the Oilers coach felt as though his team came in prepared to work Sunday morning when they held their team meeting.
"We had to rebound today," said Hitchcock. "Last night was very emotional. To mount the comeback that we did and to be pushing forward and then to give it back as quick as we did was disappointing but I thought the guys were good today."
LINEUP NOTES
The Oilers did not hold a morning skate on Sunday and Hitchcock said he still hasn't decided what lineup changes he may make for the match.
"We haven't really made our mind up," he said. "We've got a couple guys that are going to work through the day, injury-wise. As of last night, we were going to make changes based on injuries but they came back today and felt a lot better."
Lines will be made apparent at warmups.
-- Paul Gazzola, EdmontonOilers.com

PREVIEW

OILERS (23-22-3) vs. HURRICANES (22-20-5)
TV: 7:30 p.m. MST; Televised on Sportsnet 360 and Sportsnet One
Head-to-Head:
Tonight's game is the first of two meetings between the two teams this season. Their second and final game against each other will be February 15, in Carolina.
The teams met twice last season with the Oilers winning 7-3 in Carolina but the Hurricanes won 5-3 in Edmonton.
Oilers team scope:
The Oilers fell on Saturday night to the Western Conference-leading Calgary Flames after winning their previous two games. They now have two games left before their nine-day all-star break and bye week including tonight. The points are critical with the club sitting two points out of the final playoff spot in the West and four teams within two points or less of that position.
Connor McDavid had a six-game scoring streak ended on Saturday but still has 70 points through 47 games.
Darnell Nurse has 23 points through 48 games. 17 of those points were in his last 20 games.
Hurricanes team scope:
The Hurricanes sit nine points out of a playoff spot. They had a stretch over the New Year of five-straight wins and seven of eight but have dropped their last two games since then. Tonight's game opens a three-game road trip for them through Western Canada.
Sebastian Aho leads the Hurricanes in scoring with 21 goals and 51 points in 47 games. Second on the team in goals is the ageless Justin Williams and Micheal Ferland who both have 13 goals. The 37-year-old Williams is on pace for 22 goals this season after scoring only 16 last year.
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Hurricanes defenceman Justin Faulk is one point away from passing Dave Babych for most points in Hurricanes/Whalers history by a blueliner. ... Carolina/Hartford have only won nine times in 39 games in Edmonton since both teams moved from the WHA to the NHL in 1979.
Nino Niederreiter played his first game as a Hurricane on Friday after being acquired from the Minnesota Wild. Niederreiter has nine goals this season in 46 games but has registered 20 or more goals in four of the last five seasons with the only exception being last season when he had 18 in 63 games. Tonight will be Niederreiter's 500th career NHL game.
Injury Report:
OILERS - Andrej Sekera (achilles) is out; Oscar Klefbom (hand) is out; Alex Petrovic (concussion) is questionable
HURRICANES - Jordan Staal (upper body) is questionable; Curtis McElhinney (upper body) is questionable
-- Marc Ciampa, EdmontonOilers.com