PREVIEW: Oilers vs. Canucks<\/p>\n
EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Here… We… Go!<\/p>\n
Set to drop the puck on another NHL season, the Edmonton Oilers are energized and geared up for another run at the Stanley Cup, beginning with Tuesday night’s season opener at Rogers Place against the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n
“Just the excitement,” Leon Draisaitl said. “The juices get flowing a little bit. Those parts are the exciting part of a new season, and you still feel like a little kid.”<\/p>\n
Over a training camp focused on acclimating players & staff under Head Coach Mike Babcock, the message of playing fast and responsibly took shape during a perfect 4-0-0 preseason for the Oilers, who outscored their opponents 14-5 and showed plenty of individual and collective growth in a new system built on giving everyone ownership.<\/p>\n
With plenty more to come as the regular season gets rolling, players are settling into their roles and feel ready and excited to get the new campaign underway.<\/p>\n
“I think\u00a0we’re still obviously working out the kinks and the timing, and with time, it’ll just become more instinctual over constantly trying to figure out where you’re going,”\u00a0Draisaitl said. “But I think we took some big steps over the preseason and we’re excited for tomorrow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Oilers vs. Canucks EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Here… We… Go! Set to drop the puck on another NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-914068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}