San Jose Sharks (27-21-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (27-19-8, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Edmonton, Alberta; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers host the San Jose Sharks after Mattias Ekholm’s hat trick against the Anaheim Ducks in the Oilers’ 7-4 win.<\/p>\n
Edmonton is 7-2-3 against the Pacific Division and 27-19-8 overall. The Oilers are first in the NHL with 48 power-play goals.<\/p>\n
San Jose has an 8-7-2 record in Pacific Division games and a 27-21-3 record overall. The Sharks have a -16 scoring differential, with 159 total goals scored and 175 allowed.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Evan Bouchard has 14 goals and 42 assists for the Oilers. Zach Hyman has eight goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tyler Toffoli has 15 goals and 20 assists for the Sharks. Macklin Celebrini has five goals and 10 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Oilers: 5-3-2, averaging 3.7 goals, six assists, 2.8 penalties and 7.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sharks: 7-3-0, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Oilers: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (27-21-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (27-19-8, in the Pacific Division) Edmonton, Alberta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[75913,163,165,164,847,1489,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-154566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-75913","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-article","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}