NHL Oct.01/2015 PS Vancouver Canucks – Edmonton Oilers

>> Dan: WE ARE ONE WEE AWA THE NHL REGULAR SEASON DEBUT OF CONNOR McDAVID BUT YOU WILL NOT HAVE T BAIT A WEEK TO SEE THE 18-YEAR-OLD PHENOM PLAY AS, TONIGHT, THE OILERS AND TEIR PRIZED NUMBER ONE OVERALL PICK FROM 2015 PLAY HERE TONIGHT ON SPORTSNET WHERE YOU CAN WATCH IT, RIGHT HERE! ♪♪ THE PENULTIMATE PRESEASON, IT GAME FOR THE VANCOUVER CNUCKS AND THE EDMONTON OILERS AS THE PACIFIC DIVISION RIVAL ALSO GO T IT TONIGHT IN EDMONTON FOR A REMATCH COMING UP ON SATURDAY IN VANCOUVER TO FINISH OFF THEIR EXHIBITIO SCHEDULE. WELCOME TO REXALL PLACE. I’M DAN MURPHY. YOU KNOW THA THE EDMONTON OILERS HAVE COME AWAY WITH GREAT PLAYERS LIKE RYAN NUGENT-HOPKIN AND TAYLOR HLL BUT THEY DID NOT JUST WIN THE LOTTERY THIS PAST SUMMER, THEY WON THE POWERBALL, MOVING UP TO THE NUMBER O PICK TO TAKE CONNOR McDAVID, BY ALL ACCOUNTS THE BEST PLAYER TO ENTER THE LEAGUE SINCE SIDNEY CROSBY, HIGH PRAISE BUT COMING OF OF 120 POINTS IN JUNIOR IN JUST 47 GAMES. ALL OF THE TOOLS HIGHLIGHTED BY BLAZING SPEED AND AN ABILITY TO DO TNGS WITH THE PUCK AT HIGH SPEED BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE THERE IS PRESSURE ON HIS SHOULDERS BECAUSE WHEN YOU E JUDGED A GENERATIONAL TALENT YOUARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE AND PRODUCE RIGHT AWAY AND THIS IS HIS FOURTH PSEASON GAME AND HE HAS GOTTEN BETTER AS THE PRESEASON HAS GONE ALONG AND THE CANUCKS WITH A COUPLE OF TEENS LEFT ON THEIR PRESEASON ROSTER, VIRTANEN AND McCANN, IT WOULD BE CE TO SEE THEM PLAYING NHL GAMES THIS SEASON BUT McCANN IS MAKING IT DIFFICULT ON THE CANUCKS TO CUT IM LOOSE AND WE KNOW ONE THING, HIS SHO HIS RELEASE IS NHL-READY. IT HAS BEEN ON DISPLAY THE LAST FEW PRESEASON GAMES AND THE CANUCKS LOVE THE FACT THAT HAS BEEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PUCK BUT WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW IS IF HIS BODIS NHL READY BUT TONIGHT WILL BE A GOOD DRESS REHEARSAL BECAUSE HIS LE MATES TONIGHT ARE CRACKNELL AND NOW UPSTAIRS TO JOHN AND JOHN. >> hn S.: THOSE NAMES THAT DAN MENTIONED, JOHN, MAKING LIVE NERVOUS FOR SOME OF THOSE PENCILED IN, EXPECTED TO MAKE THE TEAM AND HE MENTIONED RONALD KENINS BUT HESTARTED WITH THE SEDINS IN PRINCE GEORGE, PLAYED THE FIR PRESEASON GAME THERE AND THERE IS A SENSE THAT PERHAPS HE HAS FORGOTTEN WHAT HE EEDS TO DO TO BE EFFECTIVE AND THE WANT TO SEE THAT FROM HIS GAME HRE TONIGHT GAPPY THINK THAT HE IS MORE EFFECTIVE PLAYING LIKE A LITTLE BOWLING BALL CREATING SPACE FOR HIMSELF. WE SAW HIM TRYING A TOE DRAG AND HE HAD NOT HAD AHIT FOR TWO PERIODS AND HE WAS LOOKING TO FINESSE AND HE CREATES ROOM BY BEING AGGRAVATING TO PLAY AGAINST ANDMAKING CONTACT AND HE HAS TO GET BACK TO THAT. EVER ORGANIZATION IS BETTER WHEN YOU G PRESSURE FROM THE YOUNG GUYS, JAKE VIRTANEN ARE BOTH DOING HAT AND FOR RONALDS KENINS HE HAS TO FEEL THE PRESSURE. >> John S.: AND BAD THE EDON OILERS THIS AS JORDAN EBERLE WAS INJURED TUESDAYAGAINST PHOENIX BUT THE INJURY NOT AS BAD AS IRST FEARED, HE WILL ONY MISS FOUR TO SIX WEEKS. >> John: FOUR TO SIX WEEKS WITHOUT SURGERY, HE GETS PUSHED BUT GOES AWKWALY THERE INTO THE BOARDS AND CAN YOU SEE TE SHOULDER INJURY AND THE OILERS WENT THROUGH THAT WITH RYAN NUGENT-HOPKI AND FELT THAT THEY BROUGHT NUGENT-HOPKINS BACK TOO SOON AND THEN HE WAS HURT AGAIN AND SO THEY WILL BE VERY CAUTIOUS WITH JORAN EBERLE WHO IS ONE OF THE YOUNG STARS OF THE TEAM AND HE HAS BEEN BTTER THAN SOME OF THEIR FIRST OVERALL PICKS. >> John S.: NO EBER HE OILERS BUT A LOT OF STAR POWER IN TH EDMONTON LINEUP INCLUDES THAT FIRST MAN THAT YOU SAW WHEN WE CAME ON THE AIR, I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT DAN MURPHY, ‘M TALKING ABOUT CONNOR McDAVID. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR PLAYERS TO MAKE A STATEMENT AS WE MOVE CLOSER AND CLOSER TO OPENING NIT, PACIFIC DIVISION RIVALS, THE CANUCKS AND THE OILERS AND >> Dan: REXALL PLACE IN EDMONTON, THE NEW COACH TODD McLELLAN HAS HIS EDMONTON OILERS 6-0 IN THE PRESEASON. JACOB MRKSTROM FOR THE CANUCKS TONIGHT. >> John S.: HIS PRESEA NUMRS NOTHING SHORT OF EXCELLENT, A GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE OF 0.51 AND THE OILE HOPE THAT CAM TALBOT WILL BE THEIR ANSWER IN GOAL, HELPING TO RSE HIS STOCK LAST YEAR STARTING 24 STRAIGHT GAME FOR THE NEWORK RANGERS WHEN HENRIK LUNDQVIST WASHURT AND HE PERFORMED VERY, VERY WELL FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS PRESEASON WILLIE DESJARDINS HAS MADE A RO TRIP AND HE IS BEHIND THE VANCOUVER BENCH HERE IN EDMONTON AND ONE OF THOSE PLAYERS OPPOSING HIM WILL BE GRIFFIN REINHART FROM WEST VANCOUVER WHO SUIS UP WITH GRYBA FOR EDMONTON, REINHART WITH IT. SHOTN. HE IS BODIED THERE BY DEREK DORSETT AS MATT BARTKOWSKI IS OUT WITH HAMHUISTO START ON DEFENSE AND THE CANUCKS GET THE PUCK FORWRD AS PRUST GLOVES IT AHEAD. SENT THE OTHER WAY BY HENDRIKS. NOW DOWN IN THE VANCOUVER ZONE. IT IS BARTKOWSKI WITH IT HERE. IT IS MARK LETESTU, LINKHAMMER AND HENDRIKS NOW UP FRONT FOR THE OILERS. AND THAT ISANDREJ SEKERA THERE. AND THIS IS SUTTER CUTTING IN, BACKHAND. STOPPED BY TALBOT AND THAT REBOUND OFF OF THE SATE OF SUTTER AND IT WAS TALBOT WHO COVERED IT UP. >> John G.: WE’VE SEEN FLASHES OM BRANDON SUTTER, TAKING HIM A WHILE PERPS TO ADJUST TO THE WESTERN CONFERENCE, HE HAS PLAYED SO MUCH OF HIS CAREER IN TH EAST. RIGHT THERE, SKATING WIDE, PROTECTS THAT PUCK NICELY. TALBOT A GOOD SAVE N TIGHT AND THEN ON REBOUND AND SUTTER COULD NOT GET THAT PUCK UP AD OVER TALBOT. >> John S.: POULIOT LOOKING TO MOVE THROUGH CENT, CHECKED THERE BY SBISAHAS YOUNG BEN HUTTON WHO IS MAKING QUITE AN IMPRESSION ON THE VANCOUVER DEFENSE AND ANDREJ SEKERA HAS DECIDED NOW THAT HE WANTS TO BE CALLED SEKERA. [ NFLECTION ] >> John S.: AND NT SEKERA. [ INFLECTION ] John G.: AND WITH HIS NEW CONTRACT, HE CAN BE CALLED WHATEVER HE LIKES. >> John S.: A RARE MISTAKE THERE BY HUTTON GIVING THE PUCKUP THERE TO HALL. THIS TIME THE PUCK IS INTERCEPTED BY LEON DRAISAITL, McDAVID STOPPED, EBOUND, SHOT, SCORES! [ HORN SOUNDS ] [ CHEERS, APPLAUSE ] >> John S.: A TOUGH F Y SUTTON AND HALL MAKES IT 1-0. >> Jo G.: AND HOW ABOUT THAT PLAY BY CONNOR McDAVID, HE WILL GET AN SSIST HERE, HUTTON THROWI THAT UP THE BOARDS WITH NO ONE THERE AND MARKSTROM A GOOD SAVE ON THE FIRST ONE AND McDAVID SKATE, STICK, SHOT, REBOUND AND HALL THERE TO SLIDE IT INTO THE EMPTY NET. >> John S.: AND AND THEN ANOTHER CHANCE RIGHT OFF THE DRAW, SLEPYSHEV COULD NOT GET THAT ONE PAST MARKSOM. THEY’VE ONLY CREDITED THE OILERS WITH ONE SHOT ON GOAL, MARKSTROM HAD MADE THE SAVE INITIALLY AND HORVAT SCORES, SET UP IN FRONT BYIRTANEN AND NOW IT IS 1-1! >> John G.: WELL,HE CANUCKS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS, ESPECIALLY VIRTANEN, THROUGHOUT THE TRAING CAMP. GO HARD TO THE NET, HORVAT STRONG TO THE NET. COULD HAVE BEEN A PENALTY THER NOT CALLED. AND TAEV, THE SHOOT-IN, THE CHIP OUT TO BO HORVAT RGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, FEENCE TURNING THERE ON VIRTANEN, NO ONE TAKING BO HORT TO THE NET AS CAM TALBOT GOT A PIECE OF THAT. NOT ENOUGH. >> John S.: AND 23 SECONDS IS ALL THAT IT TOOK FOR THE CANUCKS TO TIE THE GAME, HORVAT AT 1:52 AND NOW BACK TO SQUARE HERE I EDMONTON. IT IS BAEGA BACKHANDING THAT PUCK INTO THE VANCOUVER ZON, GRYBA WITH IT, CHECKED THERE BY KENINS BUT NOW THE GIVEAWAY TO LEON RAISAITL, WEBER NOW KNOCKING THAT PUCK AWAY. OVER TO CONNOR McDAVID, HIT IN THE CORNER BY BIEGA AND NOW IT IS HALL TO CONNOR McDAVID, A SHOT! MARKSTROM ACROSS, MAKES THAT SAVE AND HANGS ON. >> John G.: OH, BOY, IT IS HALL AND CONNOR McDAVID WITH A LITTLE BIT OF MAGIC THERE, BIEGA, LOSING THEM AND THEN IT IS MARKSTROM, SQUARE, SHOUDERS UP, MAKING THAT SAVE AND HE HANGS ON. >> John S.: IT IS PROMISING TO BE AN ENTERTAINING NIGHT. >> John G.: NOT FOR THE GOALTENDERS. >> John S.: AND SOMT JUST HAS TO BE HAT WAY, JOHN, IN ORDER TO BE ENTERTAINING. LETESTU, HE COULD NOT MOVE THA PUCK OUT. TALBOT WI COVER FOR A FACE-OFF COMING UP IN THE EDMONTON OILERS ZONE. >> John G.: CONNOR McDAVID, WE’VE SEEN HIS GREAT TALENT IN JUNIOR AND CAN IT TRANSLATE TO THE NHL? YEAH, HE PLAYS WITH THAT KD OF CONFIDENCE, YOU SEE THE SOCCER PLAY, THE KICK THERE RIGHT UP ND TO HIS STICK AND THEN HE GETS THE ASSIST ON THE RBOUND RIGHT THERE. >> John S.: AND RYAN NUGENT-HOINS AGAINST LINDEN VEY ON THE FACE-OFF. SCHULTZ TO POULIOT, PURCELL GAINING GROUND THERE AND THE REVERSE, PRESSURE THERE FROM PURCELL PRESRING HIS MAN AS BURROWS COULDNOT MOVE THAT PUCK OUT. PURCELL, POULIOT, LOOKING FOR NUGENT-HOPKINS. AND HE HAD HIS STICK SLASHED THERE BY BARTKOWSKI AND NOW HE TENDS IT AHEAD HERE TO HANSEN WHO BACKHAN THAT PUCK PAST SEKERA. AND NOW BURROWS IN ON THE FORECHECK, TAKING THE OILERS DEFENSEMAN INTO THE BOARDS BUT EDMONTON WITH IT NOW, IT S PURCELL, THE PUCK SLID DOWN INTO THE VANCOUVER ZONE AS SBISA IS PURSUED BY BREWER, WORKING THE PUCK OVER TO HUTTON WHO STARTS OUT. NOW DEREK DORSETT, IT IS HTTON THERE TO COLLECT THAT PUCK, SENDING IT IN AS IT TOOK A WEIRD BOUNCE RIGHT IN FRONT BUT ANTON SLEPYSHE MOVING THAT PUCK OUT. IT IS PRUST. IN ON NIKITA NIKITIN. SUTTER HOLDING THE PUCK IN. AND NOW IT IS SLEPYSHEV WHO HOLDS IT IN. THE DISH-OFF, DRSETT TO THE BACKHAND, THE PUCK COVERED BY TALBOT WHO TOOK A LITTLE SHOT TO THE GLOVE AS THE EDMONTON OILERS COME OVETO HAVE A CHAT. >> John G.: ALL RIGHT. THE CONNOR McDAVID DRAFT LOTTERY, THAT IS BIG NEWS BUT HOW ABOUT GETTING TODD McLELLAN. THAT IS A BIG THING FOR EDMONTON BEHIND –FOR THE EDMONTON OILERS CLUB, STABILITY BEHIND THE BENCH AND HE LEADS ALL COACHES FOR MOST WINS IN FOUR YEARS BEHIND THE BENCH. HWAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN SAN JOSE. I KNOW THAT IT DID NOT TRANSLATE INTO PLAYOFF WINS BUT PRESIDENT’S TROPHIES AND 100 POINT SEASONS. >> John S.: IT IS deBOER WHO FILLS THAT ROLE THERE NOW IN SAN JOSE AND McCLELLAND WITA LOT OF YOUNG TALENT HERE TO WORK WITH. IT ISORVAT WHO ACCEPTEDS IT AHEAD. AND NOW IT IS VIRTANEN, UTTING IN ON GOAL AND A RIGHT PAD SAVE THERE BY TALBOT WIT VIRTANEN LOOKING TO SET UP A REBOUND CHANCE IN FRONT. BAERTSCHI, TO BRTKOWSKI. A SHOT. BLOCKED THERE BY HALL. LEON DRAISAITL WITH IT. HE EEDS IT AHEAD TO CONNOR McDAVID WHO SART AS CHANGE BY JUMPING THAT PUCKIN AND BEHIND THE CANUCKS GOAL. FIVE MINUTES INTO THE FIRST PERIOD IN A 1-1 TIE. SEKERA, A TURN IN TH CORNER AS HE FEEDS IT ACROSS TO SCHULTZ. THE OILERS NOW TO CENTRE. PURCELL. POULIOT, LOOKING TO GET IT ACROSS. THE CANUCKS NOW WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO BREAKUT, THREE OF THEM WITH KENINS LEADING THE WAY. COULD NOT CORAL THAT LEAD PASS. A HECK THERE BY SEKERA. OILERS KICK THE PUCK AROUND AS SCHULTZ HAS IT. A FEED AHEAD. PURCELL NOW TO NUGENT-HOPKINS. THE TEAMMATES ARE CHANGING IN BEHIND HIM AND SO IT IS SLID FREE FOR SBISA. AND ANOTHER LONG ONE HERE TOWARDS BURROWS, THIS ONE THROUGH TO THE GOALTENDER, TALBOT, SLIDING THAT PUCK TO THE SIDE ASPLAY CONTINUES. IT IS LL OUT THERE. COULD NOT GET I PAST HUTTON, HUTTONOW AHEAD OF McDAID. THE PUCK GLOVED DOWN BY BURROWS. IT IS LINDEN VEY AND HUTTON, HE S HAD TWO VERY GOOD SHIFTS SINCE THAT SUSPECT ONE AND THAT IS GREAT SIGN THAT I THINK THAN MA WILLS IN THE, THA HE IS NOT LETTING IT AFFECT IM. >> John G.: WELL, HE IS VERY POISED, A CALM, CALM INDIVIDUAL, HE EVEN PLAYS THAT WAY IN PRACTICE. >> John S.: WIDE ON HERE, REINHART TO THE POINT ASRYBA LOOKS TO WRIST IT ON GOAL. BLOCKED. OUT COMES DORSETT. AND NOW WIDE ON GRYBA,HE REACHED OUT, KNOCKED THAT PCK AWAY AND IT IS FED AROUND FOR SUTTE HERE. HENDRIKS, FOR EDO IS BLOCKED BY. IT IS TIPPED BACK INTO THE ZONE FOR BIEGA. SUTTER POKES THE PUCK IN BEHIND THE ILERS GOAL. AND NOW FROM TE NEAR SIDE, HAMHUIS THE FIRSTMAN BACK. >> John G.: THE FANS THERE REACTING TO IT, HAMHUIS LOOKED AS IF HE WOULD GET TO THAT PUCK BEFORE IT WAS WHISTLED DOWN BY THE OFFICIAL. >> Jn S.: AND SO THE OILERS UNABLE TO MAKE A CHANGE. >> John G.: AND BARTKOWSKI AND HAMHUIS, COULD THIS BE A PAIRING WE’LL SEE IN THE REGULARSEASON. >> John S.: YES, POTENTIALLY, BARTKOWSKI ON THE OFFSIDE ON THIS SHIFT. KLINKHAMMER WITH THE PUCK PLAYS IT OFF THE GLASS AND IN AND THIS IME — NO ONE LIKES TO TOBE BOOED TWICE. >> John G.: YES, THAT’S RIGHT. >> John S.THAT ONE NO WHISTLED DOWN. IT IS LANDER WITH IT. HE HAD A HAT TRICK IN THE 4-0 WIN OVER ARIZONA. SLEPYSHEV, LOOKING TO DRAG THAT ONE OFF THE PAD OF MARKSOM BUT IT WENT OFF OF THE TOE OF HIS STICK AND THEN OFF THE MARK. AND NOW HE IS IN ONCE AGAIN. IT IS LOOSE ON THE BOARDS AS CRACKNELL TAKES IT. NOW TO THE BLUE LE. IT IS NAIL KNACKOFF WITH IT. HE WILL PEELOFF AS THE CANUCKS START OUT OFTHEIR ZONE. KENINS WITH IT WITH THE CROSS-CORNER DUMP. NOW AHEAD O POULIOT. HE HAS GOT ROOM TO ATE IN, LEFT WING, RUN INING TO SBISA. THE PUCK TO BURROWS, NOW RINKWIDE TO HANSEN. HANSEN WITH IT. MOVING IN ON FEENCE. THE PUCK OFF OF SKATES, HANSEN NOW. TRYING TO CENE. HE NEVER PAID THAT PASS TO VEY, BURROWS, HANSEN. HIS STIC TIED UP. HE DID NOT GET A SHOT OFF. VEY AFTER THAT PUCK. THE OILERS WORKING IT FREE TO POULIOT WHO IS CHECKED IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE WIT NOW NINE MINUTES GONE IN THE FIRST PERIOD. A COUPLE OF EARLY GOALS, ONE EACH WAY, 23 SECONDS APART. HALL AND ORVAT. AND NOW IT IS A 1-1 TIE. IT IS GRYBA GRABBED THERE. THERE WILL BE A PENALTY COMING UP. PRUST, HE WIL GET A HOLDING PENALTY HEN THE CANUCKS TOUCH IT UP. AND SO THERE’S A POWER PLAY FOR EDMONTON COMING UP WHEN >> John S.: THE BLU J TO BALTIMORE TODAYO SAW THAT COMING, WHAT WITH THE PARTY YESTERDAY? THEY ARE BACK AT IT TOMORROW TO OPEN A SERIE AGAINST TAMPA, 3:00 PACIFIC TE SERIES OPENS, BLUE JAYS AND THE RAYS. >> John G.: A LOT OF THE GULARS GETTING TIME OFF. PRUST, REACHING AROUND, RIGHT HAND OVER THE SHOULDER, LEFT HAND ON THE OTHER SIDE AND HE ENDS UP WITH THE HOLDING PENALTY. >> John S.: IT IS THE FIRST POWER PLAY OF THE GAME GOING TO EDMONTON. THE OILERS IN THE PRESEASON, 6-31. THEY RANKED 19th IN THE REGUR SEASON LAST YEAR. >> John G.: ANDTODD McLELLAN USED TO RUN THE RED WINGS POWER PLAYS WHEN THEYWERE WINNING STANLEY CUPS. >> John S.: IT IS BARTKOWSKI, TURNING, GETTING IT AHEAD A BURROWS SENDS THE PUCK DOWN AND INTO THE OILERS ZONE. NOW IT IS SCHULTZ. OUT THERE TO QUARTERBACK. AND THERE’S SOME TALENT ON THE ICE FOR EDMONTON, NUGENT-HOPKIS, CONNOR McDAVID, HALL, BENOIT POULIOT ROUNDING IT OUT AND THAT PAS JUST BEHIND HALL OR HE WOULD HAVE HAD A CLEAR LANE TO THE NET BUT IT IS BROKEN UP AND THE PUCK IS SENT DOWN. 40 SECONDS GONE IN THE PENAL TO PRUST AS SCHULTZ BRINGS TE PUCK IN. POULIOT LOOKING TOKEEP THE PUCK ALIVE. HANSEN, TAKING A BIG SWING AT IT. COULD NOT GET IT OUT. IT IS HALL, SBISA, A CHANCE IN FRONT AND McDAVID CENTRES AND POULIOT ROBBED BY MARKSTROM, A CUT TO THE LINE, HOT, ANOTHER SAVE, MIGHT HAVE BEEN BLOCKED ON ITS WAY THROUGH ON THE SAVE BY HALL. A GREAT SAVE, IN TIGHT, AND A REALLY HEADY PASS ACROSS THERE BY THE 18-YEAR-OLD. ERE NOW IS NUGENT-HOPKINS WITH IT, NOW OVER TO HALL WITH McDAVID WORKING ON THE LEFT. THROWING IT IN FRONT, HANSEN INTERCEPTS AS HANSEN TAKES HIS TIME BEFORE HE CHIPS THE PUCK INTO OILERS TERRITORY. GOI AFTER IT HERE, HE WILL PEEL OFF ON A CHANGE. 30 SECONDS TO GO IN THE EDMONTON POWER PLAY. THAT RING AROUND, HIT THE LINESMAN AND IT IS JOHN GRAHAME WHO IS FAVOURING HIS LEFT LEG RIGHT THERE. THE SHOOT-IN, HIT HIM CLEANLY. THE POWER PLAY CONTINUES, HE WILL MAKE SURE THAT HE GETSOUT OF THE WAY OF THAT ONE. LEON DRAISAITL WITH IT NOW. TO THE LEFT POINT WIT IT BUT NIKITIN WAS NOT THERE. THE PENALTY IS OVER. NO SHOTS RECORDED BUT I’M PRETTY SURE THAT MARKSTROM MADE A NIE SHOT OFF OF PULIOT. >> John G.: YES, IM PRETTY SURE THAT HE DID AS WLL. >> John S.: THEY WILL FIGURE IT OUT EVENTUALLY. HORVAT HERE, INTERCEPTS, WHILE THROWING THAT PUCK THE CORNER AS BAERTSCHI GETS IT, WRISTER, TIPPED, ITIS IN! BO HORVAT WIT HIS SECOND OF THE GAME, THE CANUCKS LEAD IT 2-1. >> John G.: AND YOU SPOKE OF THE POISE OF HTTON AND, OH, WHAT A PLAY THAT HE MADE RIGHT THERE, A NICE WRISTER AND IT BEATS TALBOT, GOOD PLAY BY TALBOT, BAERCHI RIGHT THERE AND GETS IT BACK, NOT SURE IF IT — IT MIGHT HAVE JUST GONE IN RIGHT OFF OF THE GRYBA. GRYBA, GETS HIS LEG UP AND IT IS OFF THE DEFENSEMAN AND THEN THE GOALTENDER. >> John S.: AND SO THAT MIGHT BE HUTTON’ GOAL TO GO WITH HIS FOUR ASSISTS,EITHER THAT OR HORVAT HAS HIS SECOND OF THE HOCKEY GAME. >> John S.: IT WILL BE MULTION’S GOAL. — IT WILL BE HUTTON’S GOAL AND BAERTSCHI WITH THE ASSIST, NOW WITH TWO, HE WAS IN ON THE HORVAT GOAL AS WELL. >> John G.: THIS OILERS EFENSE WILL BE SO BIG WITH GRYBA,WITH REINHART AND FERENCE IS THE ONLY GUY WHO IS DER 200 POUNDS. >> John S.: WEBER RUSHING THAT PUCK THROUGH CENTRE AS SCHULTZ BANKS THAT ONE AROUND AND NOW AHEAD FOR POUIOT WHO IS CHECKED HERE. POULIOT AGAIN, TRYING T GET IT TO THE SIDE AS BURROWS HAD DESIGNS ON MOVING INFOR A CHANCE AS THEOILERS NOW GET THE PUCK BACK. POULIOT AGAIN. PURCELL, HE DUMPS THE PUCK IN AND NOW IT IS PURCELL WITH IT FROM TE CORNER AS BARTKOWSKI LOOKS TO CHECK HIM. THE PUCK SHOVELED AHEAD. IT IS PURCELL, SCHULTZ NOW WITH ROOM, IN FRONT NOW WITH A SHOT AND MARKROM THE SAVE! ABLE TO SMOTHER IT AND GETS THE WHISTLE. HE HAS GOT A LEAD TO WORK WITH NOW, BEN HUT >> Dan: WELL, IT I AT THE ARRIVAOF THE FIRST OVERALL PICK WOULD HELP TICKET SALES BUT THE OILERS TICKETS U 1 31% ON THE SECONDARY MARKET AND EDMONTON FROM 16th TO 6th BEST ON THE RESALE WEBSITE ANON THE ROAD AS WELL, FOULHE SEVENTH BEST SELLING TEAM ON THE ROAD IN THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, HEADY TERRITORY. >> John S.: THEY WILL BE A TOUGH TEAM TOCONTEND WITH AS EVERYONE MATURES. DEREK DORSETT. HE GETS THAT PUCK IN. LETESTU. BATTLING NOW WITH SUTTER. AND THE OILERS COME UP WITH THE PUCK. IT IS FERNCE, NOW HENDRIKS. AND WITH HIS GOAL, HUTTON NOW WITH FIVE POINTS IN FIVE GAMES FOR VANCOUVER TAKING OVER THE TEAM’S PRESEASON SCONG LEAD FROM JARED McCANN. DORSETT FROM PRUST, LOOKING TO GO WIDE THERE ON RENCE AS NIKITA NIKITIN POKES THAT PUCK AHEAD AND NOW IT IS KLINKHAMMER WHO BACKHANDS THE PUCK DOWN AND INTO THE VANCOUVER ZONE. THAT WILL BE ICING. [ WHISTLE ] >> John S.: WE SAW THE SPEED OF CONNOR McDAVID RIGHT THERE BUT THE CANUCKS WERE PRETTY SURE THAT HE WOULD NOT CATCH UP BUT IT ISN ICING CALL. >> John G.:ND DAN HAMHUIS, ONE OF THE VETERAN PLAYING IN THIS GAME. A GOOD,SMART MOVE AND I SHOULD NOT SATHAT THAT WAS HAMHUIS, IT WAS VEY WHO DID A FINE JOB OF BOXING OUT NUGENT-HOPKINS FROM GETTING TO THE FRONT OF THE NET. >> John S.: THE OERS WIN THE FACE-OFF FOLLOWING THE ICING, AND NOW THE COLLISION WITH FERENCE, HUTTON HAS THE PUCK, THAT PASS IS INTERCEPTED BY KLINKHAMMER. HE SHOOTS THE PUCK IN. EDMONTON NOW MAKINGTHEIR CHANGE, 5:30 LEFT IN THE FIRST WITH THE CANUCKS LEDING IT NOW 2-1. HORVAT HERE TO HUTTON, BCK NOW TO HORVAT, HE HAS SPEED ON THE LEFT WING, LOOKING TO GO WIDE ON GRYBA. VIRTAN, DROPPING IT BACK AND BIEGA, THE SHOT, WIDE. THEN FANNING ON ANOTHER PASS. UP THE IDDLE, LEON DRAISAITL TO CONNOR McDAVID IN FRONT FOR HALL! THE PUCK OUND UP BEHIND THE GOAL. THEY’VE GOT SOME CHEMISTRY. RE NOW IS SCHULTZ. BAERTSCHI AKING THE PUCK AWAY. IT IS NOW HOISTED OUT TO CENTRE. >> hn G.: AND WITHOUT EBERLE, LEON DRAISAITL IS GETTING TO PLAY WH THESE TWO GUYS. JUST GO THE NET, STAY ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU FIT IN. THAT PUCK HIT TALBOT IN THEARM AND THEN OFF THE POST. THE PUCK THOUGH STAYS OUT, IT S >> Dan: GET A FIVE-GAME PACK AND YOU CAN SEE THE LEAFS, THE OILERS AND THE BLACKHAWKS LIMITED AVAILABLE AND GET YOURS WHILE SUPPLIE LAST, FOR JUST .399. VISIT www.canucks.com FOR MORE INFORMATION. >> John G.: THE OILERS WI BE A FUN TEAMO WATCH IF YOU GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET OILERS TICKETS. SALES FOR THEM HAVE INCREASED BUT THEY WILL PLAY A WIDE-OPEN, OFFENSIVE STYLE AND THEY CAN MAKE PLAYS. >> John S.: SLEPYSHEV, BODIED THE BY BARTKOWSKI. THE PUCK DRIVEN BACK IN BY SCHULTZ. WAITING, LANDER. PUTTING THAT ONE ON THE GOAL AND OVERTOP OF THE NET AS KENINS LOOKS TO GET THE PUCK OUT BUT HE CANNOT DO IT. HAMHUIS, BEING WATCHED HERE. A PASS THAT WENT OFF OF THE STICK AND OVER THE GLASS FOR A WHISTLE. >> John G.: AND ONE OF T THINGSHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT McCANN, HE IS NOT AFRAID TO SHOOT THE PUCK. SEEN THAT THE LAST COUPLE OF GAMES, LOING TO CULT INSIDE, REALIZED THAT HE COULD NOT MAKE IT AND HE TAKES A SHOT. NODDING THERE FOLLOWING THE NICE PASS. THIS IS VEY PLAYING WITH HANSEN AND BURROWS. HERE LOOKING TO SEE IF HE CAN PUT UP SOME POINTS. >> John S.: A SHOT THROUGH TRAFFIC BY TALBOTAS POULIOT PASSES NOW TO PURCELL. NOW FROM BEHIND THE NET, NUGENT-HOPKINS A LEAVE NOW FOR NIKITA NIKITIN WHO HAS MOVED IN DEEP. LINDEN VEY, LOOKING TO STAY WITH HIM. THAT CENTERING PASS KNOCKED AWAY, TO CENTRE, FERENCE WITH IT DUMPING IT IN. HE TAKES A HIT THERE FROM HANSEN. BEN HUTTON. THE PASS THROUGH. SBISA, A TIP OF THE PUCK IN WITH THE CANUCKS CHANGING. LBOT LEAVES IT BEHIND FOR GRYBA. >> John G.: AND TALKING ABOUT GRYBA, 6’4" AND 225, AND REIHART 6’4" AND 220. >> John S.: I IS YANNICK WEBER. >> John G.: NOT 6’4" AND NOT 220. >> John S.: SHOOTS THE PUCK IN. TAGGG UP, GRYBA AHEAD FOR KLINKHAER WHO DEFLECTS THAT CK TO BIEGA. WEBER HERE TO PRUST WHO ONE HANDS THAT ONE IN. GRYBA, AVES IT IN THE CORNER WITH LETESTU SLIDING THAT ONE AHEAD, INTERCEPTED BY SUTTER. HAMHUIS TO BARTKOWSKI. A WRISTER, STOPPED BY TALBOT WITH THE CLEARED TO THE SIDE. HENDRIKS NOW LOOKING TO CLEAR THE UCK OUT. THIS IS BO HORVAT. HE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE HUTTON GOAL WITH AN ASSIST AND SO HORVAT NOW WITH TWO POINTS, A GOAL AND A HELPER AND INITIALLY WE THOUGHT THAT HE HAD TWO GOALS. VIRTANEN WITH A TIP AROUND HIS OWN ZONE. HALL NO SENDS IT TO THE RIGHT WING D NOW THE PUCK IS ON THE STICK OF NIKITIN. LEON DRAISAITL FOR McDAVID, TRYING TO MOVE IN. AND LLOWING UP HERE, TURNS ON THE LEFT WING. VIRTANEN PICKI IT OFF. HE SKATES IN, RIGHT WING. LOOKING TO GO OUTSIDE-IN ON FERENCE WITH HALL AFTER THE PUCK, THROWING IT UP THE MIDDLE. WEBER, PICKING IT OFF. A LOW SHOT THERE, WIDE. BIEGA NOW. THAT PUCK CAME OUTSIDE THE LINE AND NOW THE OFFSIDE WHISTLE BLOWS. >> John G.: AND, JOH KW THAT YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN THINGS EXTRA TREES TREAL AND KARMA AND ALL OF TAT STUFF BUT SOME OF THESE NMBERS, THEY FREAK YOU OUT, IS IT THE KARMA OR THE LUNAR, LOOK AT THE FRST SEASON, 66, AND THEN THE SEOND 99 AND THEN 97 GOALS, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO SAY "THE OUTER LIMITS" OR — >> John S.: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE. >> Jhn G.: THE X-FILES IS COMING BACK. >> John S.: McDAVID, WITH HIS ASSIST O THE HALL GOAL, HE HAS FIVE ASSISTS IN FOUR PRESEASON GAMES AND STILL LOKING FOR HIS FIRST GOAL. A CHANCE HERE FOR YAKUPOV TO BREAK IN ON TE LEFT WING, A SHOT FROM YAKUPOV, HESCORES! [ HORN SOUNDS ] [ CHEERS, APPLAUSE ] >> John S.: YAKUPOV, WITH 42 SECONDS TO GO IN THE PERIOD, HE TIES THE GAME AT TWO. >> John G.: WELL, IT WAS MARKSTROM, HE G THAT PUCK OUT AND SHOT IT DOWN THE ICE AFTER THIS ONE. BIEGA, WITH THE ANGLE AND KEEPS YAKUPOV WIDE. HE IS OUTSIDE THE FACE-OFF DOT AND MARKSTROM SO GOOD AT GTTING DOWN, GETTING SQUARE, HE IS HALFWAY AND THAT IS WHY HE DID NOT REACT TO IT WELL OR G READY EARLY ENOUGH AND YAUPOV BEATING HIM WITH ONE THAT I’M SURE THAT ARKSTROM WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BACK. >> John S.: THE SECOND PRESEASON FOR YAKUPOV, SEKERA AND SCHULTZ WITH ASSISTS ON THAT ONE. BUT IT WAS PRTTY MUCH A INDIVIDU EFFORT WITH YAKUPOV BURSTING DOWN THE LEFT WING AND LETTING O WITH THAT SHOT. >> John : AND FOR YAKUPOV, HE IS ONE OF THE FIRST OVERALL PICKS, THE OILERS THINKING — WELL, YOU KNOW, SAYING AT THEY NEED TO TRADE FOR A DEFENSEMAN, THE NAME OF YAKUPOV KICED AROUND. >> John S.: HE WENT N E IN 2012. 14 GOALS LAST SEASON AND 33 POINTS IN 81 GAMES. BURROWS, HE TAKES A HIT IN FRT OF THE EDMONTON BENCH IN ONT OF GRYBA THERE FINAL 20 SECONDS OF THE PRIOD. HAMHUIS WITH A WRISTER THROUGH. THAT ONE EFLECTED INTO THE CORNER. THAT ONE OFF OF A OILER AND OVER THE GLASS. >> John G.ANOTHER LOOK HERE AT THE YAKUPOV GOAL. JACOB MAKSTROM A BUTTERFLY GUY GET DOWN ON THE ICEEARLY. HE DOES NOT GET DOWN AST ENOUGH. AND IT WAS UNDER THE PAD. AND HE HAS LOOKED SO SQUARE ALL THE TIME IN TH PRESEASON BUT THAT TIME HE DID NOT LOOK SQUARE. >> John S.: AND NOW WITH FIVE SECONDS TO GO IN THE PERIOD, CENTERS HEE, THE PUCK NOW BACK TO BARTKOWSKI, THAT DOES IT FOR PEOD NUMBER ONE AND AN OILER PENALTY IS COMING UP. [ HORN SOUNDS ] >> John S.: THE CANUCKS ARE GOING TO START THE SECOND PERIOD ON THE POW PLAY THANKS TO A HOOKING CALL BUT IT IS A LATE GOAL FROM YAKUPOV, GETTING PAST MARKSTROM AND HERE NOW I THE PENALTY. >> John G.: THERE YO THE HOOK, AND CONN McDAVID GETTING HIS NAME ON THE SCOREBOARD AND EVEN IN THE PENALTY AREA. >> John S.: HEAS A ASSIST, OILERS STARTED IT QUICKLY 1:3 IN, CANUCKS THE LEAD BUT YAKUPOV HAS GOT THE GAME NOW BA TO EVEN AND WE’LL HEAR FROM BO HORVAT IN THE FIRST INTERMISION IN CONVERSATION WITH DAN MURPHY, THROUGH 20 MINUTES, THE CANUCKS TW THE OILERS T ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> Dan: THE EDMONTON OILERS SCORING EARLY AND LATE AND CANUCKS SCORING A COUPLE OF TIMES IN BETWEEN, OILERS ANDTHE CANUCKS SQUARED AT TWO AFTER ONE PERIOD AT REXALL, INCING TOWARDS THE REGULAR SEASON WITH A LOT OF OPTIMISM HERE IN EDMONTON, NEW HEAD COACH, AND OF COURSE CONNOR McDAVID AND BRINGING I BILLY JAFFE AND MARK SPECTOR, TALKING ABOUT CONNOR McDAVID. >> Mark: ALL IGHT. >> Dan: EXPECTATIONS ARE SO HIGH. >> Mark: YES. >> Dan: AT SHOD W REASONABLY EXPECT? >> Mark: I THINK THAT EXPECTATIONS ARE REALLY HIGHBALLS IF YOU HAVE SEEN HIM THE KID IS FANTASTIC BUT HERE IN EDMONTON THEY’VE SEEN SO MANY FIRST OVERALL KIDS COMING THROUGH AND NT CARRY THE TEAM TO GREATNESS THAT I DO NOT THIK THAT THE OILERS FANS ARE EXPECTING HIM TO GRAB THE TEAM AND TAKE THEM INTO THE PLAYOFFS BUT TAT SAID, BETTER SCORE 50, 55 POINTS OR THEY WILL BE DISAPPOIED. >> Billy: I WALKED DOWN JASPER AND THEY HAD RINGS THAT THEY WERE FITTING, THE STANLEY CUP RINGS — >> Mark: NO, NO, NOT IN THIS TOWN. [ LAUGHTER ] >> BillyTHEY KNOW THAT BECAUSE CONNOR McDAVID IS HERE, THERE IS A GREAT NEW FEELING, BUT THEY HE PETER CHIARELLI AND COACH McCLELLANBUT, STILL, I THINK THAT THEY WILL STRUGGLE TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS BUT TO PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE THE LEAD POINT GETTER FOR GAUDRU AND STONE OF OTTAWA LAST SEASON, 64 POINTS, WE ALL SAID THAT THAT WAS A GOOD YEAR, SAY THATHE GETS TO 80, A POINT A GAME, I DO NOT THINK THAT HE WILLGET THERE, I THINK BETWEEN 70-75, STILL A SPECTACULAR SEASON. >> Dan: AND THE LEADING POINT GETTERS WERE JUST OVER 80: AND A NOTE THE CAPTAINCY, THEE WAS TALK ABOUT THE "C" BEING REMOVED FROM ANDREW TERMS. >> Mark: YES, ANDREW FERENCE IS THE CAPTAIN HERE BUT THERE IS A LOG. >> Jamie: FOR THE FIVE-SIX PAIRING AND GRYBA WILL PLAY ON IT FOR SURE AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN, GRIFFIN EINHART, ACQUIRED FROM THE ISLANDERS HAS PREN HIMSELFNHL READY AND THEY ARE SADDLED ITH NIKITA NIKITIN AND SO THAT CONTRT IS TOO BIG TO MOVE AND THEY LOOK TO FERENCE AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? LIKE HIM AS OUR CAPTAIN IF HE PLAYS BUT HE MAY NOT PLAY ENOUGH TO WEAR THE "C." >> Billy: YES, I THINK THAT THEY LOVE HIM AS A PERSON, A LOT OF RESPECT BUILT UP AROUND THE COMMUNITY AND UCH A BIG GUY IN THAT REGARD BUT THIS DEFENSE STILL IS NOT GREAT, FELLS, AND IT IS PROJECTED OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, ADDING A NURSE TO THE MIX THERE, ALONG WITHREINHART AND THE FACT THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO GET YOUNGER AND YOUNGER, IT PROJECTS TO BE GOOD BUT NOT THERE YET AND SO DO YOU GET A YOUNG GUY TO GIVE THE CAPTAINCY TO AND GROW LIKE THAT OR GIVE IT TO A GUY THAT YOU RESPECT MUCH BUT IS NOT THE — NOT IN THE LINEUP AS MUCH. >> Dan: AND IS THE EFENSE THE ACHILLES HEE? >> Mark: OH, YES, AND CAM TALBOT WILL BE THE NUMBER ONE AND IF WE GET THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT OUT TO TALBOT THAT HE WILL GIVE YOU NUMBER ONE GOALTENDING, THENFOR SURE THE DEFESE IS THE ACHILLES EL ON THIS TEAM. >> Billy: HE AD 21 WINS IN 36 APPEARANCES FR THE NEW YORK RANGERS AND HE HAS NOT PLAYED NHL ACTION WITH THIS DEFENCE IN RONT OF HIM. THE DEFENSE WITH THE NEW YORK RANGERS IS DARN GOOD AND THIS NOW WILL BE SEEING A LOT OF E THE SHOTS, SECOND CHANCESFROM HIGH TRAFFIC, HIGH PERCENTAGE AREAS. >> Dan: AND A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WE SAW EBERLE GOING DOWN WITH THE SHOULDER INJURY, WHERE DOES HE RANK ON THE GUYS WHO SHOULD NOT OR COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN HURT FOR EDMONTON. >> BillyI MEAN, HE IS RIGHT AT THE TOP, WHAT IS IT, SPEC, EBEE HAS LED THEM IN POINTS IN THE LAST NUMBER YEARS AND HE ISTHEIR MOST POLISHED FORWARD, NOT BIG BUT ALWAYS PLAYS IN MOURN SITUATIONS, GETS THINGS DONE AND HE IS THE OLD GUY OF THE YOUNG GUYS WHICH I THINK IS ENORMOUS FOR THIS TEA. >> Mark: THE KEY HERE IS THAT HE IS A YEAR OLDER THAN HALL, A REALLY GOOD FINISHER AND I DEFY YOU TO TAKE A NHL TEAM, ANY NHL TEAM, AND SAY THAT WE’LL TAKE UR FIRST LINE RIGHT WINGER AWAY FOR THREE TO FOUR WEEKS, IT IS A PROBLEM IN 30 TOWNS AND IT IS THIS YEAR IN EDMONTON. >> Dan: A PANIC THAT WOULD NOT HAVE SET IN THIS YEAR COMPARED TO LAST. >> Mark: LET ME SAY THIS REALLY QUICKLY,THE EDMONTON OILERS FANS ARE LIKE CHARLIE BROWN LOOKING AT THE FOOTBALL RIGHT NOW AND THEY ARE SAYING, OKAY, I THINK IT WILBE THERE WHEN I GO TO KICK IT THIS YEAR, WE’RE HOPING. >> Dan: OKAY TO JOI U FOR CANUCKTALK IN THE SECOND INTERMISSION. >> Billy: THAT WAS LIKE HOCKEY "THE VIEW" RIGHT THERE. >> Mark: WE’LL TAKE IT. >> Dan: AND I KNOW THAT SHORTY AND GARRETT ARE UPSET AT TAKING AWAY THEIR FACE TIME. CK TO THEM NOW. >> John S.: IF THAT WAS "THE VIEW" OF HOCKEY TALK THEN I’M SITTING NEXT TO BARBARA WALTERS RIGHT NO. [ LAUGHTER ] >> John G.: UNFORTUNATELY FOR REINHART, LEDDY AND BOYCHUK WENT TO THE ISLANDERS ND REINHART WOULD HAVE PLAYED REGULARLY, HE WAS FOURTH OVERALL PICK AN THEY WERE GROOMING HIM IN THE AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE AND THEN HE BECAME EXPENDABLE, FOURTH OVERALL AHEAD OF FILIP FORSBERG IN THE SAME DRAFT AND NOW RIPEAR WILL GET A CHPS HERE, HE WENT TO THE MEMORIAL CUP WITH THE EDMONTON OIL KINGS HERE AND NOW IS BACK, LOOKING TO ESTABLISH HIMSEL AS A PERMANENT NHLER. >> John S.: AND THERE IS CONR McDAVID, HE WAS CALLEDFOR HOOKING. THE PENALTY ASSESSED THERE AT THE 20-MINUTE MARK OF THE FIST PERIOD AND SO THE CANUCKS ON THE POWER PLAY TO START PERIOD NUMBER 2, IN THIS 2-2 TIE AND IT IS NUMBER 2, ANDREJ SEKERA BACK TO CLEAR THE PUCK DOWN TO START PERI NUMBER 2. THE CANUCKS, JUST 3-24 THE PRESEASON ON THE POWER PLAY. THE OILERS, STRUGGLED O THE PENALTY KILL AND A TURNOVER AND A GOAL RIGHT THERE FORWEBER, THE PUCK THROWN UP THE IDDLE, WEBER MAKES NO MISTAKE AND THE CANUCKS WITH THAT POWER-PLAY GOAL, THEY LEAD IT 3-2. >> John G.: WELL, WHAT A SHOT. THAT IS WHY YANNICK WEBER IS A VALUABLE ASSET, THE CANUCKS WANT TO USE HIM ON THE POINT, ON THE POWER PLAY BECAUSE HE HAS GOT THE INSTINCTS AND THE OFFENSIVE FLARE AND WHAT KIN OF A PASS WAS THAT? IT WAS RIGHT TO YANNICK WEBER, THAT IS WHERE IT WAS AND FOR WEBER, NO MISTAKE, HE JUST SNAPPED IT BY TALBOT RIGHT THERE. >> John S.: THE FIRST GOAL, RST POINT OF THE PRESEASON FOR WEBER, HE HAD11 GOALS FOR THE CANUCKS LAST SEASON. THAT POWER PLAY TALLY COING JUST 24 SECONDS INTO THE SECOND PERIOD. AND T WAS WEBER RUDELY INTERRUPTING MY STORY ABOUT THE OILERS PENALTY KILLING, TO FINISH THAT, THEY STRUGGLED LAST YEAR, TIED FOR SECOND-WORST IN THE NHL AT JUST 76.7%. >> John G.: AND THEY THOUGHT THAT ANDREJ SEKERA WOULD HELP IT. DID NOT HELP IT MUCH RIGHT THERE >> John S.: GRYBA. ABLE TO WORK THAT PUCK PAST DORSETT AND NOW TURNING IS LANDER. >> John S.: IT IS HAMHITH IT, A LONG PASS AHEAD HEO HANSEN, TRYING TO GET THAT PUCK OVER TO VEY WITH McDAVID BACK TO PICK UP TE PUCK. HE WAS CHECKED. NOW HE GETS IT AHEAD HERE TOWARDS SLEPYSHEV AS BURROWS CERES THE PUCK, PICKED OFF BY McDAVID. AND LEON DRAISAITL WITH THE WINDS UP WITH THE PUCK, IT RCLES THE NET AS HE LEAVES IT FOR FERENCE. SBISA, HOLDING THAT PUCK INTO THE OILERS ZONE, A WRISTER, RIGHT PAD SAVE THERE BY CAM TALBOT A THE OILERS HAVING TROUB IN THEIR OPEN ZONE. NOW TO CENTRE, McDAVID HERE, A PASS TO LEON DAISAITL AS HE MADE AN EXTRA MOVE AND McDAVID WAS INOO SOON. WITH ROGERS NHL GECENTRE LIVE, FOLLOW YOUR TEAM ANY SCREEN FROM ANYWHERE, SUBSCRIBEFOR THE 2015-’16 SEASON BEFORE OCTOBER THE 6th TO GET THE EARLY RD RATE OF $179.99, GET STARTED AT ROGERS.COM/NHL. McCANN WINNING THAT FACE-OFF OUTSIDE OF HIS OWN BLUE LINE. AND IT IS WEBER HERE, A LEAVE FOR CRACKNELL FOR McCANN NOW. IN FRONT. KENINS AND McCANN, THEY WERE THERE. THEY COULD NOT GET THEIR STICKS UP. >> John S.: BIEGA HERE A CRACKNELL. POULIOT WITH IT TO THE BLUE LINE. A LONG SHOT BY SEKERA, BLOCKED. HITTING CRACKNELL, McCANN WITH A STEAL ANDN OPPORTUNITY TO BREAK OUTAND A SHOT, OFF THE POST! HE BEAT THE GOALTENDER UT HE COULD NOT FIND THE NET AS T STAYS A ONE-GOAL GAME. >> John G.: AND NEARLY AUGHT THE OILERS DEFENSEON A CHANGE RIGHT THERE NOW HALL. OVER TO LEONDRAISAITL. HE RAN IN TO BORE HO VAT. AND IT IS HAMHUISWITH IT. TALBOT. NOW FOR REINHART. AROUND TO TAYLOR HALL. McDAVID WITH IT, QUICKLY AHEAD. AND LEON DRAISAI, CENTRES. HE RETURN PASS FOR HALL. HE COULD NOT KE CONTACT. T OILERS MOVE TE CANUCKS FROM SIDE TO SIDE. IT IS TALBOT WITH IT. AND HE THROWS THAT ONE ACROSS. IT IS REINHART AHEAD TO McDAVID AND IT IS PRUST GOING TO THE NET. SUTTER, CENTERING, THAT PUCK BLOCKEDY NIKITA NIKITIN AS SBISA HOLDS IT IN. LEFT POINT. PUTTING IT IN FRNT. OFF OF THE STICK OF HALL AND NOW INTO THE CORNER. McDAVID OUT WITH THE PUCK. THE OILERS NOW WANT A CHANGE. THEY WILL FLIP IT DOWN AND INTO THE VANCOUVER ZONE. KLINKHAMMER, TO SBISA. GETTING THAT PUCK AROUND TO HUTTON. ANDNOW A PASS, SOFT PASS, DORSETT TO SUTTER. PUTS THT PUCK IN. SKATES AFTER IT. THE OTHER MBER 21, IT IS TERMS OUT N TO MEET BRANDON SUTTER. AND NOW THE UCK COMES FREE. AND OUT WITH IT, IT IS MARK LETESTU. FOUR MINUT INTO THE SECOND, THE CANUCKS LEADING IT 3-2. WEBER TO PRUST. AND ONCE AGAIN, THE OILERS DEFENSE NOT CHANGING, PRUST AT E END OF HIS SHIFT. CENTERING THAT PUCK, AND NOW ONTOIT, HANSEN, CENTERING PASS, VEY, A STICK SAVE THERE BY GOALTENDER CAM TALOT. IT I SCHULTZ, HE THROWS THAT ONE T CENTRE, WEBER RIGHT THERE,MAKING CONTACT LEG ON LEG, APPEARING TO BE ALL RIGH. HE WAS SPINNING OUT OF THE WAY OF THAT NEUTRAL ZONE CHECK. ANOTHER TURNOVER. VEY WITH A SHOT. TALBOT OUT TO CHALLENGE, HANSEN, HE TEED IT UP THERE FOR LINDEN VEY. >> John G.: AND JARED McCANN, SNAPPING THAT SHOT. WE’VE SEEN IT A COUPLE OF TIMES AND, OH, WOW, THAT WAS CLSER THAN I THOUGHT, BEAT TALBOT CLEANLY OVER THE GLOVE, OFF OF THE CROSSBAR AND FOR TALBOT, HE IS 28 YEARS OLD. YOU SEE IS GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE. >> John S.: AND THE OILERS HAVE NOT BEENGOOD IN THAT DEPARTMENT. >> John G.NO, NOT GOOD AND TALBOT PLAYING WITH THE NEW YORK RANGERS ANDTHAT VIGNEAULT TEAM SO VERY GOOD AT KEEPI THE PUCK OUT OF THE NET. AND YOU LOOK AT SCRIVENS, A GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE IN LOS ANGELES, UNDER 2.00 AND WITH THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS IT WAS OVER 3.00 AND SAME HERE IN EDMONTON. >> John S.: ANOTHERN, TALBOT, TWO STOPS RIGHT THERE. FIRST KENIPS AND THEN HAMHUIS. A COUPLE OF SHARP STOPS FOR TALBOT. THE RANGERS WENT 1-7 IN THE TIME THAT HENRIK LUNDQVT MISSED LAST SEASON AND TALBOT STARTED 24 IN A ROW AT ONE POINT. >> John G.: THE SAVE MADE ON THAT ONE BY TALL BOTH. >> Jhn S.: AND THE SHOTS ARE 7-0 VANCOUVER TO START THE SECOND PERIOD. >> John S.: IT WAS WEBER WHT E GOAL AT THE START OF THIS RIOD OFF OF THE SEKERA TURNOR. PURCELL WITH IT NOW TO NUGENT-HOPKINS. IN WITH POULIOT. THERE IS A HARD SHOT, POULIOT ON THE REBOUND, MARKSTROM, LUNGING THERE WITH THE PAD, ABLE TO MAKE THE SAVE. TWO STOPS RIGHT THERE. >> John G.: THE GOALTENDERS, THEY’VE HAD SOME ISSUES IN THIS GAME AND RIGHT THERE YOU COULD SEE IT, HE WAS GOING LEFT, WAS MARKSTROM, THE REBOUND WENT RIT AND THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN EASY SAVE BUT, INSTEAD, HE CREATS A LITTLE BIT OF EXCITEMENT RIGHT THERE. >> John S.: THIS IS SLEPYSHEV AND YAKUPOV OUT WITH LNDER. THAT PUCK NOW SEPTEMBER DOWN AND INTO THE EDMONTON OILERS ZONE AS DORSETT FIGHTS FOR IT WITH LANDER. LANDER OUT WITH IT. FIVE GOALSFOR HIM IN THE PRESEASON ALREADY, FIVE GOALS FOR ANTON LANDER AND THREE O THOSE COMING IN THE ONE GAME THE OTHER NIGHT. BIEGA, CHECKED. SLYSHEV. AND NOW LANDER AFTER THE PUCK. CANUCKS TO THE LINE. GLOVED DOWN BYRYBA. FORCED OUT HERE BY DORSETT. SIX MINUTES INTO THE SECOND. THE CANUCKS LEADING IT 3-2. ALEX BIEGA. LOOKING UP ICE. A HARD PASS FOR DORSETT. OFFSIDE THERE. NIKITA NIKITIN ABLE TO DISRUPT THAT PASS. THE CANUCKS ARE STILL OFFSIDE BU THE OILERS NOW GET THE PUCK OUT. HANSEN HERE FOR BURROWS, KNOCKED AWAY BY REINHART. SLIDES IN ON TALBOT WHO COVERS FOR THE WHISTLE. A LOT OF OFFENSE IN THIS ONE. CAM TALBOT BEATEN [ PLEASE STAND BY ] [ ATTEMPTING TO CQUIRE AUDIO ] >> Dan: THERE YOU SEE SPIDER-MABEL SAVING THE DY AND SHE DROPPED THE CAT PUK FOR THE HOCKEY GAME THAT NIGHT. >> John S.: AWESOME STUF >> John G.: AND THE GOOD NEWS THERE, THE PROGNOSIS IS LOOKING UP FOR SPIDER MABEL. >> John S.: THAT’S AWESOME. FERENCE’S TEAM TAILS BY ONE, McDAVID, A RELAY TO HALL AND NOW IN ON T, BARTKOWSKI. LEON DRAISAITL JOINING THE ACTION. THE PUCK NOW CMING FREE FOR BARTKOWSKI WHO BRINGS T TO CENTRE. GETS IT TO THE OILERS LINE, TALBOT MISSING IT, BURROWS, REBOUND, AND VEY COULD NOT UT IT HOME. THE CANUCKS MOVE BACK IN. VEY WITH IT ONCE MORE. LOOKING TO GET THAT ONE THROUGH. BLOCKED. NIKITIN, SENDING THE PUCK TO HALL AND NOW AHEAD TO McDAVID AS THE PUCK BOUES OVER HIS STICK. LEON DRAISAITL RETURNS, HUTTON NOW, A FEE OVER TO SBISA AND KENINS LOOKING TO GET THROUGH THE DEFENSE WITH A SHOT THERE, KNOCKED DOWN AS SBISA OVERSKATED IT AND NOW IT I NUGENT-HOPKINS WHO ONE HANDS THAT PUCK THROUGH BUT PURCELL COULD OT CATCH UP TO IT. IT IS KENINS WHO TAKES IT FOR VANCOUVER, PURSUED THRE BY PURCELL. FIGHTING OFFTHE CHECK, A PASS TO CACKNELL. BODIED BY FERENCE AS KENINS THROWS THAT HIT. McCANN WITH IT, THROWING THAT ONE CROSS BUT THAT ONE WENT OFF OF PURCELL. THE PUCK HELD IN AT THE BLUE LINE AS THE CANUCKS START TO CHANGE. NEARING THE EIGHT-MINUTE MARK OF THE SECOND PERIOD WITH THE RAT OILERS TRAILING 3-2 RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS OUT WITH THE PUCK, IRTANEN GOT A GOOD PIECE OF HIM AS IT WAS PLAYED INTO THE VANCOUVER ZONE. WEBER NOW. UP FOR VIRTANEN. A TIP. OH, LOOKED LIKE HE MISSED IT ACTUALLY. ICING THE CALL NOW AGAINST NCOUVER. >> John G.: AND SBISA HERE A NICE, LO PASS TO RONALDS KENINS AND THE WRISTER RIGHT THERE, TO TALBOT AND HE FIGHTS IT OFF. THE HEAD UP THERE. AND IT I TALBOT HERE, OUT AND ON TOP OF THE CREASE, HE MAKES THE SAVE. >> John S.: AND THE CANUCKS NOW WITH POSSESSION, OF OF THE FACE-OFF, BIEA WITH VIRTANEN. THIS TIME, HE DID TIP IT. GRBA NOW BACK FOR THE PUCK. A HARD PASS HERE, SLEPYSHEV AND HE COU NOT HANDLE IT CLEANLY AND NOW A TURNOVER, A LOOSE PUCK RIGHT THERE THAT SLIDES THROUGH TO TLBOT WHO COVERS BARTKOWSKI, RATHER THAN SHOONG, HE LOOKED TO SET UP A TIP IN FRONT. >> John G.: THE OILERS, THEY LIKE THAT PLAY UP THE MIDDLE BUT IT IS NOT WORKING VERY WELL FOR THEM. USE THE BOARDS, THE PLAY THERE, UP THE MIDDLE. IT DID NOT WORK. AND YOU CAN BET THAT COACH McCLELLAN IS WATCHING TAPEND SAYING, OKAY, WECAN TOUCH IT UP EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE. >> John : THE PUCK INTO THE SEATS FOR A WHISTLE JAPAN THE EDMONTON OILERS WITH THE FIRST PICK IN UR OF THE LAST SIX YEARS WITH LEON DRAISAITL SIXTH OVERALL AND IT WAS NURSE WHO WAS SEVENTH AND NAIL YAKUPOV, THE OTHER GUYS THEREWAS NO DOUBT WHO WOULD GO FIRST OVERALBUT YAKUPOV, TAKE A DEFENSEMAN TAKE ANOTHER FORWARD AND, STILL, THERE’S A LOT OF DEBATE ABOUT THE OILERS MAKING A MISTAKE IN THAT DRAFT. >> John S.: AND NINE MINUTES INTO THE SECOND PERIOD OF THIS PRESEASON GAME WITH THE CANUCKS LEADING IT 3-2, THE SAME TWO TEAMS ARE GOING TO MEET AGAIN ON SATURDAY AT ROGERS ARENA TO CLOSE OUT THE PRESEASON. >> John G.: AND THE CANUCKS, THEY’VE BEEN PRETTY GOOD IN THE LAST TEN YEARS, LOKING TO THEIR DRAFT SELECTION PLES, OKAY, RECENTLY SIXTH AN NINTH BUT BRANDON SUTTER NOT ACANUCKS DRAFT CHOICE. >> John S.: OR HAMHUIS, SBISA, McCANN, I THINK THAT E IS THE SURPRISE OF CAMP, HIM AND HUTT. >> John S.: AND HERE IS HUTTON, HE DRIVES TO TH NET BUT HE COULD NOT PUT IT HOME ON THE CKHAND AND NOW CRACKNELL, A SHOT, GLOVED THERE BY TALBOT WHO HANGS ON. AND IF YOU WERE NOT WITH US TO START THE GAME, BEN HUTTON WITH A TOUH FIRST SHIFT, THE OILERS SCORED THEIR OPENING GOAL OFF OF HIM BUT THE VANCOUVER CANUCKS AND HUTTON HAVE BEEN VERY CALM AND COMPOSED SINCE. >> John G.: YOU SEE NIKI NIKITIN THER LETTING HUTTON GET AROUND HIM. >> John S.: THE SHOTS ARE NOW 9-2 VANCOUVER IN THE SECOND PERIOD. VIRTANEN, TO BEINGIA AND WEBBER HUSTLES HERE AND NOW IT IS VIRTANEN CHCKED THERE BY McDAVID WITH THE PUCK LIFTED AND TALBOT IS BACKOW TO COLLECT THE PUC AND HE GETS IT INTO THE CORNER BUT NO FRTHER, AND IT IS A NEARSIDE AROUND HRE AS HALL HAS ROOM, QUICKLY PASSING IT TO McDAVID. THE 18-YEAR-OLD IN AND OVER THE WING HERE, THE PUCK IN FRONT AND NOW BACK TO HIM, THE BLUE LINE FEED OUT OF THE REACH OF REINHART. THE PUCK NOW DOWN THE ICE. EDMONTONTRAILS IT BY ONE, JUST PAST THE HALFWAY MARK OF THE SECOND PERIOD. THIS IS PRUST. A SOFT PASS INTO THE MIDDLE, DORSETT FOR PRUST. THEY WERE OFFSIDE. WHISTLE BLOW. SAW A LITTLE BIT OF THE McDAVID MAGIC ON THAT LAS [ PLEASE STAND BY ] [ ATTEMPTING TO ACQUIRE AUDIO ] ♪♪ >> John G.: THE OILERS, TY START WITH A THREE-GAME AD TRIP, GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS SOMETIMES. IF YOU HAPPEN TO WIN TWO OF THE THREE, GOOD NEWS, THEY ARE IN NASHVILLE, DALLAS TO START THE SEASON AND THEIR FIRST HOME GAME THE 15, THIS AGAINST S LOUIS >> John S.: IT IS LINK HA TO SET THAT ONE UP. GETS WHISTLE. >> John G.: AND THAT IS HOW MARKSTROM HAS PLAYED ALL CAMP, GET SQUARE, GET INTO CA THE POSITION AND TRAFFIC IN FRONT BUT NO REBOUND AT ALL. >> John S.: THE TENTH SH OF THE GAME FOR THE OILERS, AND HUTTON HERE WITH A WRISTER THAT HE WHISTLES OVER THE TOP OF THE GOAL. HUTTON IN DEEP ONCE AGAIN. KNOCKED AWAY. IT IS LINDN VEY WHO HAS IT FAR SIDE NOW. VACOF HANSEN, HE GOT A PIECE OF HIM. BURROWS TO THE PUCK. THAT PASS, OUT OF THE REACH OF SBISA WHO HAS TO CHASE BACK. QUICKLY HEAD NOW TO BURROWS WHO SLAMS THAT PUCK IN BEHIND THE OILERS GOAL. IT IS YAKUPOV TRYING TO MOVE IT T. GETS ANOTHER CHANCE. ANDE LIFTS THAT ONE HIGH, OFF THEOARDS AND NOW OUT TO CENTRE JAPAN THE OILER ALSO NEED TO GET US TO A GOOD PUCK HANDLING GOALTENDER, CAM TALBOT CAN TO THAT AND THE OILERS ARE HAVING SOME TROUBLES THERE. >> John S.THIS IS McCANN NOW BACK TO BIEGA, McCANN, SKATES OVER THE OILERS LINE, A LEAVE HERE FOR SUTTER. REBOUND, JAMMED T IT. McCANN, WIDE, WHEELS OUT WITH IT NOW IT IS NUGENT-HOPKINS, TAKING THAT PASS AND PURCELL WITH A WRISTER, HITTING A SKATE ON ITS WAY THROUGH AS WEBER CLEARS THAT PUCK, McCANN, HE COD NOT GET THAT ONE PAST SCHULTZ. MARKSTROM, A TAP OF THE PUCK TO THE OTHER SIDE AND WEBER THERE, OH, HIT BY UGENT-HOPKINS AND SLOW TO GET P AND WEBER, LOOKING SHAKY, HE DOES NOT HAVE HIS STIC AND MARKSTROMHOLDS IT OUT. AND WEBER WILL COMPLAIN TO THE OFFICIAL. >> John G.: AND CAN YOU SEE THAT YANNICKWEBER IS STILL GIVING IT TO THE REFEREE. AND STEVE KOZARI,HE IS PLEADING HIS CASE. LOOK THERE AS WBER THERE. WELL — >> John S.: RIGHT TH THE BACK, SHOULDER TO THEBACK. >>ohn G.: SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER. >> John S.: YES. >> John G.: THAT WAS KOZARI, HE WAS RIGHT ON IT. AND HE DID NOT MAKE THE CALL. >> John S.: VIRTANEN NOW, HE BACKHANDS THAT PUCK INTO THE EDMONTON ZONE AND NOW HE WILL GET A PENALTY AFTER HOOKING HIS MAN. A DELAYED PENALTY TO VIRTANEN WITH THE OILERS MOVING UP THE ICE AND McDAVID TO THE NET, WHERE IS THE PUCK? IN THE GLOVE OF MARKSTROM,I THINK, SLEPYSHEV THERE IN THE CREASE ON ANOTHER FORAY BY THE OILERS. >> John G.: AND BRAD WATSON THERE MAKING THE CALL, NOT STEVE KOZARI WHO DID NOT MAKE HE CALL AT THE OTHER END AND I DO NOT THINK THAT THERE IS ANY DOUBT ABOUT THAT ONE, IT IS VIRTANEN WITH THE STICK UNDER THE ARMS AND THIS WOULD BE INTERESTING, AN INTERESTING ONE FOR THE COACH’S CHALLENGE BECAUSE SLEPYSHEV WAS IN THE CREASE. >> John S.: SLEPYSHEV. [ INFLECTION ] >> John S.: AND SOME SAY IT SLEPYSHEV. [ INFLECTION ] >> John S.: BUTHEN YOU JUST SOUND LIKE YOU’VE HAD ONE TOO MANY. >> John G.: YES, YEAH. >> John S.: PRUST WENT OFF FOR HOLDING IN THE FIRST AND THE LERS SCORED ON THAT ONY ATTEMPT. THE PUCK NOW TO CENTRE. IT IS MDAVID WITH IT. NOW BACK TO CENTRE IT IS SUTER REPLACED BY CRACKNELL. NOW HALL. IT IS NUGENT-HOPKINS, PAST BURROWS. A FEED, IN DEEP. McDAVID, NOW TO HALL AND BACK TO SCHULTZ. AND TO THE SIDE, NUGENT-HOPKINS MISSING THAT PUCK. AND IT IS ICKED OFF THERE BY HUTTON. TO HE BLUE LINE WITH IT, IT IS SCHULTZ. AND NOW THE PUCK GIVEN AWAY TO SBISA. IT IS A PENALTY COMING UP TO NUGENT-HOPKINS FOR INTERFERENCE. THE REFEREE SAYS THAT HE WAITED TOO LONG OR THAT TOO MUCH TIME HAD PASSED AFTR CRACKNELL GOT RID OF THE PUCK AND SO IT IS GOING TO BE FOUR-ON-FOUR FOR OVER 90 SECONDS. >> John G.: HAVE A LOOK, IT WAS THE HIT ON CRACKNELL, NUGENT-HOPKINS STEPPING INSDE, GOING OUTSIDE AND THEN BACK INSIDE. >> John S.: ANSO THE INTERFERENCE HERE IS CA TO NUGENT-HOPKINS, TAKI THE GAME TO FOUR-ON-FOUR FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT IS LINDEN VEY WHO IS FORCED BACK OUT TO CENTRE. NOW HANSEN WITH IT. GETS OVER THE OILERS LINE. BARTKOWSKI, LOOKING FOR A SHOT, GLOVED THERE BY TALBOT. HE HANGS ON FOR THE WHISTLE. WE’LL BREAK HERE AS THE TEAMS ARE PLAYING FOUR-ON-FOUR AND THE CANUCKS STILL WITH THE >> Dan: YOUR CHILD COULD THE TOYOTA JUNIOR TRAINER THIS SEASON ANGO ON AN ECLUSIVE TOUR AND WATCH THE WARMUP FROM THE CANUCKS BENCH, VISIT www.canucks.com/JUNIOR TRAINER TO ENTER. >> John S.: HANG OUT WITH JOHN SANDERSON BUT HE IS LIKE TO MAKE YOU GO FOR A TEN KILOMETRE RUN. >> John G.: AND DO NOT LET TAKAHASHI GET NEAR — >> John S.: YOUR DIET? OR YOUR OOD? >> John G.: YES. >> John : SBISA THERE WAS SPRAWLING AND THE PUCK NOW DOWN THE BOARDS AND IT IS VIRTANEN OUT THE BOX AND IT IS KICKED OUT AS THE PUCK IS MOVED AHEAD, CANUCKS NOW ON THE POWER PLAY FOR ANOTHER MINUTE AND IT IS WEBER WHO OVES DOWN TO HOLD THE PCK IN. HORVAT WITH IT. NOW T WEBER. IT IS IRTANEN. LLING PUCK. NOW BAERTSCHI. WEBER. SHOOTS, AND IT IS IN! I THINK THAT IT HIT VIRTANEN ACTUALLY. >> John G.: AND I THINK THAT IT HIT VIRTANEN. IT MAY BE HIS GOAL BUT E HAS PAID THE PRICE FOR IT IN FRONT OF GOAL. >> John S.: OH, YES. >> John G.: LEAKY. >> Jn S.: WE SAW GETAKG ONE IN THE PHASE IN SAN JOSE AND NOW THEYARE ATTENDING TO VIRTANEN. THEY GO OFF THE ICE. >> John S.: VIRTANEN, A WAVE TO THE CROWD THERE. >> John G.: I LIKE THE WAY THAT HEPLAYS, HE IS BIG, OU COULD SEE, HE SAW IT COMING, HE TURNED, GOT HE GLANCING BLOW ANDHE GOT THE GOAL AND THAT SHOT BY WEBER, TIPPED IN BY VIRTANEN, INVERTENTLY. >> John S.: AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I’VEALKED TO WEBER AUT THIS. IT WENT OFF OF A STICK AS WELL. >> John G.: YES, OFF OF A STICK. >> John S.: DEFENSEMEN WITH BIG SHOTS, SAL FELT THE SAME WAY, THEY WORRY ABOUT THIS HAPPENING, HURT TEAMMATE. AND THAT ONE RAMPED UP OFF OF A STICK. >> John G.: AND YOU THAT WEBER IS SAYING, YEAH, T DEFLECTED OFF OF A STICK. >> John S.: THEY WILL DO A QUICK ICE CLEAN AND WORK ON VIRTANEN TO SEE IF HECAN RETURN TO THE GAME, THE SECOND OF THE PRESEASON, HE HAD A POWER-PLAY GOAL IN CALGARY, ANOTHER ONE HERE IN EDMONTON, GIVING THE CANUCKS THE LEAD. ARTKOWSKI, BACK FOR THAT LOOSE PUCK. AND SVEN BAERTSCHI, HE HAS THRE ASSISTS IN THE HOCKEY GAME. AND HE NEEDED SOMETHING LIKE TT AS McCAN WORKS IT BACK. EDMONTONTAKING IT BACK. AND THE CANUC INSTRUMENTAL HERE IN THIS CONTEST GIVING THEM A 4-2 LAD. >> John G.: IT WAS VIRTANEN WITH THEOOD, LOW SHOT ON THE SHOT RIGHT BEFORE THAT. GET IT IN AND REBOUND. >> JohS.: AND NOW IT IS PRUST WHO GETS IT OVER FOR THE OILERS AND NOW HE REVERSES AS SCHULTZ SENDS IT AHEAD AND TIS WILL BE AN ICING CALL TO BRING THE PUCK BACK INTO THE EDMONTON ZONE. YOU NEED TO BE BRAVE TO GO INTO THE FRONT OF THE NET. >> John G.: AND U CAN SEE THAT THAT SHOT IS DEFLECTED AND CATCHES VIRTANEN UNDER THE HELMET, YOU COULD SEE HIM WAVING AS JOHN SANDERSON HELPS HIM OFF RIGHT THERE. >> John S.: AND NEXT ON THE RESUMPTION OFPLAY, IT IS THE CANUCKS OLDING THE PUCK IN THE ZONE AND NOW IT IS SBISA WITH IT, NDER PRESSURE AND HUTTON WIN UP WITH THE PUCK. IT IS SBISA WHO EECTS TO BRING IT BACK. KNOCKED DOWN THERE BY McDAVID OR, PARDON ME, THAT AS BENIT POULIOT, THAT SHOT DID NOT MISS BY MUCH AND NOW IT IS PURCELL, TO POIOT, STOPPED BY MARKSTRM, A LOOSE PUCK IN FRONT. AND SBISA, THE CLEAR TO THE SIDE AND IT IS HUTTON WHO IS CHECKED. TO THE LINE BUT NOT OUT, BURROWS, HE GLOVES IT OUT TO CENTREHERE WITH 2:30 LEFT IN THE SECOND AND THE OILERS NOW TRAILING BY TWO. HUTTON. HE HAS BEEN O THERE FOR A WHILE. WOULD LIKE TO GET THE PUCK DOWN THE ICE, AND GET OFF FOR A CHANGE. BAERTSCHI, BLAST THERE. STOPPED BYTALBOT AND THE CANUCKS WIH A LOT OF BODIES AT THE BENCH AND SLEPYSHEV, HE SAW THAT, HE WAS LOOING TO POKE THAPUCK INTO SKATES AND GET A PENAY CALL. McDAVID, FERENCE, NOW TO HALL. UP TO SLEPYSHEV WHO MOV IN ON BIEGA. A LOW SHOT. NDLED BY MARKSTROM, STEING THAT PUCK TO THE CORNER, RIPAR WITH THE LONG SHOT, CHANGING DIRECTION AND MARKSTROM, REACTS, MADE THAT SAVE AND THE PUCK STILL LOOSE, BEHIND THE NET, CLEARED NOW TO THE NEARBOARDS AS PRUST WILL SETTLE THIGS DOWN FOR VANCOUVER WITH A PASS TO BAERTSCHI, RIGHT WING, A DROP TO BEINGIA HERE AND HIS SHOT ENDS P ON THE NEARSIDE. LEON DRAISAITL MING OUT, PUTTING THAT PUCK IN FRONT AS REINHART WAS NOT ABLE TO REACH IT AND IT IS REINHART WHO FAKES THAT SHOT AS HE CENTRES NOW AND YAKUPOV A SHOT, MARKSTROM THE SHOT THROUGH TRAFFIC AND THE OILERS STILL WITH THE PCK. IT IS YAKUPOV WITH IT, TO THE NET, TIPPED WIDE AS LEON DRAISAITL GOT HIS STICK ON THAT ONE AND THAT PASS DOWN TO THE OILERS BLUE NE. NOW A STEAL FOR THE CANUCKS, IT IS BARTKOWSKI, A SHOT THAT BOUNCES THROUGH TO TLBOT WHO HANGS ON. >> John G.: THE CANUCKS, LOOKING TO MAKE THE CHANGE AND MARKSTROM RIGHT THERE, HE HAD THE UCK THERE GO WIDE. MISSING THAT SHOT. TWO GOOD SAVES HERE, IN TIGHT. OFF OF THE SHOULDER AND THEN, PADDLE DOWN, ABLE T STOP THE REBOUND. >> John S.: 41 SECONDS TO GO HERE IN THE SECOND PERIOD. AND THE FACE-OFF NW IN THE OILERSONE. EDMONTON ABLE DRAW IT BACK. THIS WILL BE AN ICINGCALL, ANOTHER FACE-OFF UPCOMING IN THE OILERS ZONE. >> John G.: THE OILERS LOST BOYD GORDON, HE TOOK A LOT OF FACE-OFFS FOR THEM, NUGENT-HOPKINS TOOK MOST OF THOSE. HE IS GOOD. AND SUTTER TING THE SECOND MOST FAC-OFFS FOR THE PITTSBURGH PENGUINS LAST YEAR. >> John S. BEHIND SIDNEY CROSBY. >> John G.: YES. AND SO WHEN HE GETS MORE SED TO THE WESTERN CONFERENCE AND THE GUYS THAT HE WILL TAKE FACE-OFF AGAINST, HE WILL BE BETTER. >> John S.: THIS IS KENINS OFF THE FACE-OFF, A CENTENG PASS THAT GOES HIGH AND IN THE AIR, HE LEAPS THERE TO TRY TO KEEP THAT PUCK IN. STAYS IN THE OILERS ZONE. HAUIS, A LONG TEST. THAT DID NOT GET THROUGH AS HE CANUCKS STILL ARE PLAYING WITH 11 FORWARDS IN THE ABSENCE OF JAKE VIRTANEN. SCHULTZ WITH IT. THAT PASS BROKEN UP AND YOU WRY IN THE CASE OF VIRTAN. HORVAT MOVING IN. NO ONE IN FRONT. NOT JUST ABOUT RETURNING TO THIS GAME BUT YOU WORRY THAT THERE MIGHT BE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND WE’LL JUST HOPE THAT THERE IS NOT AS THE PUCK THAT GAVE THE CANUCKS THEIR FOURTH GOAL HIT HIM IN THE FACE. [ HORN SOUNDS ] >> John S.: AND WE’LL HEAR FROM GRIFFIN REINHART COMING UP, JACOB MARKSTROM KATING OFF, HAVING STOPPED 15 OF 17 SHOTS THUS FAR, CANUCKS WITH FOUR GOALS ON 20 SHOTS, TWO OF THOSE IN THE SECOND PERIOD, BOTH OF THEM ON POWER PLAYS, WEBER AND VIRTAN, 4-2 AFTER TWO. BACK TO ED [ APPLAUSE ] >> Dan: WELCOME BACK TO EDMONTON. THE SECOND-LAST GAME OF EXHIBITION PLAY FOR THE CANUCKS AND THEDMONTON OILERS. THEY WILL PLAY AGAIN ON STURDAY NIGHT. BACK NOW AT REXALL WITH MARK SPECTOR AND BILY JAFFE AND A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THE YOUNGSTERS IN VANCOUVER, STICKING WITH THE TEEN FORWARDS FOR NOW AND MARK YOU SAW JAKE VIRTANEN IN PENTICTON AT THE YOUNGSTARS TOURNAMENT AND TONIGHT AGAIN DO YOU THINK THAT HE HAS THE GAME THATWILL TRANSLATE TO THE NEXT LEVEL. >> Mark: WHEN YOU LOOK TO JUNIOR A KIDS TRYING TO PLAY IN THE HL, THIS EDMONTON TEAM HAS ALWAYSHAD SMALLER GUYS, NUGENT-HOPKINS AND HALL, COULD THEY TAKE IT? VIRTANEN HAS GOT A NHL BODY, CAN HE TE THE PHYSICAL PLAY OF THE NHL AND I THINK THAT McCANN MIT HAVE MORE NHL-READY SKLS, CERTAINLY A NHL-READY RELEASE BU VIRTANEN WITH THE NHL BODY AND MAYBE THAT IS WHAT IT TAKES TO LET THEM URVIVE. >> Billy: KEEP THEM BOTH UP FOR NINE, IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO PUT EM IN NUMERICALLY OR FINANCIALLY, WHICH IT SHOULD WORK OUT, GIVE BOTH THEM A GO BECAUSE RIGHT NOW VANCOUVER, AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED LIKE A COUPLEF OTHER TEAMS AROUND THE LEAGUE, THEYSAY WHAT ARE WE? GOING FOR THE PLAYOFFS? LOOKING TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS AND BUILD UP THE YOUTH OR TRY TO TEAR IT DOWN, BUILD IT UP. I THINK IT IS MORE OF THE MIDDLE GROUND, YES IT WOULD BE NICE IF THEY MADE THE PLAYOFFS BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING, DEVELOP THE YOUTH. JUST GIVE HIM THE COKIES AND GET HIM GET A TASTE FOR IT. >> Dan: AND THEY COULD ALSOSEE HOW THE LEVEL OF PLAY CHANGES. BRANDON SUTTER THEBIGGEST OFF-SEASON ACQUISITION, YOU SAW HIM A LOT, DOES HE HAVEWHAT IT TAKES TO PLAY CENTRE IN TH WEST? >> Billy: YES. BUT — IT IS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE. HE HAS GOT GOOD SIDE, 6’3" AND OVER 200 PNDS, SKATES WELL, A BEAUTIFUL SHOT COMING DOWN THE RIGHT SIDE AND HE IS A VERY GOOD PENALTY KILLER BUT PHYSICAL ENOUGH TO COMPETE AGAINST THE BIG CENTREMEN OF THE WEST? THAT SHOULD BE HIS ROLE RIGHT THERBUT WE’LL HAVE TO SEE HOW IT SETS UP I ANY THAT IT WI BE A BIG CHALLENGE. IF HE GETS 50 POINTS, THAT IS PROBABLY TOP LEVEL I WOULD SAY RIGHT THERE. >> Dan: 40 POINTS THE CEILING FOR HIM THUS FAR. AND SVENBAERTSCHI, HE WILL GET A CHANCE LIKELY TO PLAY TOP SIX MINUTES AND THE FLAMES, THEY HAD NO USEFOR HIM LAST YEAR, PRESSIONS THUS FAR? > Mark: HE SKITS WELL AND HE HAS GOT A NICE SHOT BUT BRAD TRELIVING THE GENERAL MANAGER IN CALGARY, I HAVE A TON OF RESPECT FOR HIM AND JIMMY BENNING, HIS FAMLY IS LIKE HOCKEY ROYALTY, I HAVE A LOT OFRESPECT FOR HIM AS WELL, ONE OF THOSE TWO GUYS WILL BE RIGHT ON BAERTSC AND ONE WILL BE WRONG AND I DO NOT KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS YET BUT BAERTSCHI TONIGHT LOOKS LIKE A NHL PAYER. HE HAS GOT TO LOOK LIKE THIS A FEW MORE NIGHTS, BILLY, TO STICK. >> Dan: AND IN 40 SECONDS, BILLY, CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT BARTKOWSKI BECAUSE YOU DID A OT OF BRUINS GAMES. >> Billy: WE SAW IT IN THE SECOND PERIOD, WHEELS, HE HAS A LOT OF THE WHEELS, SPEED, HE CAN BE A ONE-MAN BREAKOUT AND HE DOES TRY TO DO IT WITH THE PUCK SOMETIMES BUT YOU WILL TAKE THAT AND GOOD FOR HIM TO GET A CHANGE OF SCENERY FROM BOSTON, HE WOULD HAVE A FEW GOOD GAMES AND THEN HE WOULD COME DOWN A LITTLE BIT, A NICE PICKUP BY VANCOUVER, A ONE-YEAR DEAL TOO HE WILL BE MOTIVATED, MURPH. >> Da GUYS, THANKS FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING TO YOU DURING THE REGUL SEASON. >> illy: ALL RIGHT. >> Dan: ALL RIGHT, SHORTY. >> John S.: RIGHT THERE, A POSITIVE SIGN FOR THE CANUCKS, JAKE VIRTANEN HIT IN THE SIDE OF THE FACE. >> John G.: AND Dr. MIKE WILKINSON ON THE TRP, HE STITCHED UP GAUNCEN SAN JOSE AND FOR VIRTANEN, CA YOU SEE THE STITCHES, HE HAS GOT A COUPL OF SINERS FROM IT. >> John S.: HE PAID THE PRICE, HE GOT A POWER-PY GOAL. >> John G.: AND MARK AND BILLY SAID IT, PHYSICALLY, HE WENT TO THENET AROUND ANDREW FEREN, HE STOOD THERE TO PROVIDE HE SCENE AND HE TOK THAT PUCK OFF OF THE FACE. >> John S.: AND THEPERIOD IS OVER. >> John G.: F TO A GOOD START RIGHT THERE. >> John S.: AND THE REFEREE COMING OVER, PRESEASON. NOT QUITE UP TO SNUFF. >> John G.: WHEN YOU SEWA AND KOZARI, WHO IS THE HEAD REFEREE? BOTH GUYS HAVE BEEN AROUND. >> John S.: YOU ARE PUTTING ME ON THE SPOT RIHT THERE. >> John S.: THE PUCK ONHE RICOCHET, SENT IN, GLOVED BY TALBOT. A FACE-OFF COMING UP IN THE OILERS ZONE, TALBOT BEATEN FOUR TIMES ON 20 SHOTS AND MARKSTROM STOPPING 15 OF 17 FOR VANCOUVER. >> John G.: YOU LOOK TO THE OILERS LINEUP, KLEFBOM IS NOT IN,ND MARK FAIN, YOU WOULD THINK THAT HE WOUL BE IN THE STARTING LINEUP FOR THE OILERS AND OTHER THAN THAT THEY’VE PRETTY MUCH GOT THEIR LINEUP. THEY’VE HAD A LOT OF CHANCES TO CONTROL HE PUCK. >> John S.: ANDLY BET THAT WATTON IS THE — AND I WILL BE THAT WATSON IS THE SENIOR OF THE TWO. >> John G.: YES, DAVID LOOKED THAT UFOR YOU AND TRYING TO MAY ME LOOK BACK. >> John S.: DO NOT GIVE AWAY MY SECRETS. THE SPOSNET APP, IN YOU HAVE NOT HEARD, IS A GAME CHANGER, GET YOUR LATESTSTATS, VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS PRSONALIZED FOR YOU, DOWNLOAD IN THE APP STRE TODAY. >> John G.: GOT TO SEE ALL OF THE BLUE JAYS CELEBRATIONS LAST NIGHT. >> John S.: I MAY BE ABLE TO WATCH IT ON THE NEW APPLE WATCH TH I JUST WON AT THE MAINE DRIVE GOLF CUB RAFFLE. >> John G.: YOU ARE S EXCITED ABOUT THAT. >> John S.: YES, IAM. HI, GUYS. THANK OU FOR THE WATCH. CONNOR McDAVID SCOOTING IN FROM THE SIDE TERE. >> John G.: LOOK TO CONNOR McDAVID, THE TINGS THAT HE DOES AND HE IS SO MATRE AND SPEAKS SO WELL BUT ON THEICE, JUST LOOK AT THIS PLAYND HOW HE USES THE STICK, FOREHAND, BACKHAND AND MARKSTROM MAKE AGO VERY GOOD SAVE, PROTECT THAT PUCK AND MARKSTROM RIGHT THERE, CALLED ON TO MAKE A VERY GOOD SAVE IN SLOW. >> John S.: A PASS IN E MIDDLE, HORVAT WITE P SHOT, SCORES! OFF OF THE RUSH IT IS HIS SECOND OF THE GAME. HE AND VIRTANEN EACH WITH THREE POINTS AND TH CANUCKS LEAD IT 5-2. >> John G.: AND YOU CAN SEE THAT TODD McLELLAN IS LOOKING TOWN SEE HOW TE DEFENCE GOT TRAPPED ON THIS THIS ONE AND A BEAUTIFUL PASS RIGHT THERE BY HORVAT BACKHAND, FOREHAND, SNAPS IT, SETTLING THE PUCK DOWN FIRST AND BEATS TALBOTSTICK SIDE RIGHT THERE. >> John S.: THE FIRST PASS WAS FROM BAERTSCHI WHO W HAS FOUR ASSISTS IN TH HOME GAME. >> John G.: WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT WHOLE LINE AT THE END OF THE SECOND PERIOD AND THAT WHOLE LIE SHOULD BE BE A STAR. >> John S.: A WEAK BACHANDER THERE BY PRUST HANDLED BY TALBOT, HORVAT WITH TWO GOALS AND AN ASSIST, VIRTANEN TWO GOALS AND AN ASSIST AND BAERTSCHI WITH FOUR ASSISTS FOR VANCOUVER. >> John G.: YOU SEE PASS HERE, IT IS VIRTANEN WITH THE HEAD UP AND NUGENT-HOPKINS, HE TOOK THE DRAW AND HE COULD NOT GET BACK FAST ENOUGH ON HORVAT. >> John S.: THEHREE-GOAL LEAD HERE FOR THE VISITORS. BO HORVAT WITH THREE GOALS IN THE PRESEASON NOW. IT IS SUTTER WHO MOVES IN ON THE FOCHECK, McCANN, TRYING TO GET IT TO THE BLUE LINE. TAKEN AWAY BY KLINKHAMMER, HELD INTO THE EDMONTON ZOE BY HAMHUIS. FLUSHED OUT HERE, UTER, HOUNDING HIM FROM BEHIND AND NOW FROM CENTRE, HENDRIKS WITH A WRISTER INTO VANCOUVER TERRITORY. KLINKHAMMER, HECKED. SCHULTZ. KENINS, THAT ONE MISSED THE NET. SEKERA, PICKED OFF THERE, CRACKNELL, HE SKATES THE OTER WAY. A PASS THERE FOR DORSETT. OFFSIDE THE CALL. >> Pat: THE CANUCKS PROSPECTS AND THE DRAFT PICKS AND CAN YOU SEE HOW THEY DID AND COLE CASSELS TEAM WINNING IN THE OHL FINALS LAST YEAR OVER THE TEAM OF COOR McDAVID AND GAUNCE, HE HAS LOOKED VERY GOOD IN CAMP. >> John S THAT WAS LEON DRAISAITL WHO COULD NOT THE PUCK OUT. LEON DRAISAITL WITH THE PUCK ONCE AGAN. NOW A PASS HERE TO SCHULTZ. AHEAD TO LANDER. BACK NOW FR SCHULTZ AND DOWN THE RIGHT IDE, CENTRES THAT PUCK. THE STOP BY MARKSTROM, ANOTHER CENTERING PASS. DRAAITL CHIPPED THAT ONE OVER OR THE TOP AND OFF THE BACKHAND. CRACKNELL WITH IT OUT NOW TO THE PUCK. FORCED BACK. AND NOW IT IS BEN HUTTON WITH IT NOW FOR DORSETT. A LEAVE FOR HUTTON. FINDS ROOM. GLASS AND OUT. NO ICING. THE CANUCKS NOW ABLE TO MAKE A FULL CHANGE AS THE OILER ALSO START TO DO THE SAME. IT IS McDAVID. WITH THE PASS THERE, WIDE ON BURROWS, McDAVID PUT THAT GO ONE IN FNT AND OFF HE GOAL STICK OF MARKSTROM. HANSEN WITH IT NOW. ALL THE WY INTO THE OILERS ZONE. SLEPYSHEV. HE BANKS THAT ONE FOR HALL. UNLOADS THE PUCK TO CENTRE, ONTO THE STICK OF WEBER. 3:30 INTO THE THIRD PERIOD, CANUCKS LEAD IT 5-2. THEY ARE LOOKING TO EVEN THEIR RECORD IN THE PRESEASON AND HAND THE OILERS THEIR FIRST LOSS AS EDMONTON CAME INTO THIS GAME 6-0. A CHANCE FOR BURROWS IN FRONT, LOOKING TO DROP THAT ONE OFF FOR LINDEN VEY. THAT DID NOT WORK. McDAVID NOW, PRESSURED BY VEY AT THE BLUE LINE. TO McDAVID. HALL. MOVING IN ON HAMHUIS, HE FRED UP THE PUCK FOR HIS MAN AND NOW BARTKOWSKIITH IT, AND HEADED NOW TO THE OILERS BENCH IS HALL. JUMPING OVER THE BOARDS TO REPLACE HIM, NUGENT-HOPKINS. VIRTANEN, A PASS BACK FOR SBISA NUGENT-HOPKINS, HE DIRECTS THAT ONE DOWN THE ICE. MARKSTROM WITH IT. ONTO THE TAME OF BAERTSCHI. RE NOW COMES THIS LINE ONCE AGAIN. VIRTANEN IN. A CENTERING PASS. HORVAT! OH, OFF OF AN OILERS STICK, BAERTSCHI WAS THERE, LOKING FOR HIS FIFTH POINT OF THE NIGH IT IS POULIOT, STEPPING AROUND BUSINESSIA AS HUTTON GOES BACK FOR IT. UP THE MIDDLE NOW, HORVAT. PURCELL INTERCEPTS. THE WHISTLE BLOWS. >> John G.: WELL, THE CANUC ONE LINE THAT GOT TEN POINTS, NOW ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THE OILERS HERE AND IT IS MARKSTROM WITH IT, SQUARE, SHOULDERS UP, COULD NOT GET THE REBOUND AND DO YOU NOT SEE THIS IN JUNIOR, HAMHUIS, THE VERAN DEFENSEMAN AND MAVID THERE LOOKING TO DRAW THE ENALTY FOLLOWING THE PLAY. >> John S.: AND LANDER T NOW FOR THE OILERS, AHEAD HERE TO YAKUPOV, HE CHOPS THAT PUCK IN BEHD THE VANCOUVER GOAL, PLAYED TO THE NEARSIDE, SUTTER IS THERE. UNDER PRESSURE FROM SEKERA. HIS PASS TO HE MIDDLE, TAKEN AWAY BY BIEGA. WIDE FOR KENINS. SUTTER, A WRISTER. SAVE. REBOUND STOP AS WEL. KENINS HARD TO THE FRONT, OT A SECOND OPPORTUNITY THERE ON GOAL. >> John G.: AND TALKT THE CANUCKS PROSPECTS, JUST HOW WELL THEY ARE PLAYG, YOU NEED THAT IN A TRAINING CAM WHERE YOUR KEY PLAYERS ARE GETING OLDER, HENRIK AD DANIEL BOTH TURNING 35 AND VRBATA GETTING U THERE AS WELL ANDBURROWS, YOUR CORE PLAYERS AGING A LITTLE BIT AND YOU NEED TO HAVE THAT INFLUX OF YOUTH AND THE CANUCKS HAVE SHOWN THAT EY HAVE THE PROSPECTS THERE. >> John S.: AND IT IS MATT HENDRIKS FREEING UP THAT PUCK AT CENTRE FOR FERENCE. IT IS TERMS WITH IT. HAMHUIS TO PRUST. HE GOES RINKWIDE NOW TO BARTKOWSKI. A LITTLE MORE THAN 5:30 GNE IN THE THIRD PERIOD. CANUCKS FIVE, THE OILERS TWO AS DORSETT WORKS FOR THE PUCK DEEP IN THEOILERS ZONE, NIKITIN ON HIM. PRUST AND FERENCE NOW ENGAGE. KLINKHAMMER, HE CULD NOT GET IT PAST BARTKOWSKI. NIKITIN, HE TRIED TO ENT THAT ONE BEHIND THE NET. IT IS HENDRIKS WITH IT. WORKING IT NOW TO CENTRE. HE FOLLOWS IT ON HIMSELF. LETESTU, PLAYING THAT PUCINTO THE VANCOUVER ZO. BARTKOWSKI NOW GOING BACK FOR IT >> John S.: THE PUCK BUR, THAT PASS FOR VEY, BEHIND HIM. IT IS HALL WITH IT NOW TO McDAVID, IN WITH SPEED. THE PUC KNOCKED AWAY. AND SLEPYSHV, HE COULD NOT HANDLE IT. IT IS SBISA, NOW TO HUTTON. RINKWIDE, CENTRE. BURROWS, SLIING THAT PUCK IN. HEADS NOW TO THE BENCH. >> John S.: THIS IS SBISAA PASS ACROSS THAT ESCAPES THE ZONE, HUTTON TO SHOOT IT BACK IN. THE CANUCKS, THEY COMPLETE THEIR CHANGE. IT IS SEVEN MINUTES GONE IN TH THIRD PERIOD, CANUCKS UP BY THREE. THAT WILL BE AN ICING CALL HERE AINST EDMONTON. THE TIM & SID SHOW FEATURING IN-DEPTH SPOS ANALYSIS, FAN FAVOURITES, CLASSICS AND MUST-SEE GUESTS, CATCH THEM WEEK NIGHTS HERE ON SPORTSNET OR CONNECT ONLINE 24/7 @tim & sid AND THEY HAD THE SKI OGGLES ON THE SHOW TODAY, IN RESPONSE TO THE BLUE JAYS DRESSING ROOM CELEATIONS. >> John G.: YES, I SAW THOSE. LOOKED PRETTY GOOD >> John S.: IT IS BAERTSCHI, DUCKING TOGET OUT OF THE WAY OF THAT PUCK, OFF F THE STICK OF WEBER. MARKSTROM, UP TO PLAY VANCOUVER. AND NOW IRTANEN. WEBER. DROPS IT. >> John G.: AND CONFIDENTLY MARKSTROM HANDLING THE PUCK HERE IN THE THIRD PERIO >> John S.: AND WAY OUT OF HIS NET A FEW TIMES, HASN’T HE? >> John G.: YES. >> John S.: ITS NUGENT-PKINS WITH THAT PASS FOR POULIOT AS HORVAT CAME BACK TO INTERCEPT THE NEX FEED. SCHULTZ, WIDE ON HIM. GLOVES THAT PUCK DOWN AND HE FINDS POULIOT HERE. SHUTTER, IN AL ALONE. SHOT! GLOVE SAVE BY TALBOT. SUTTER, HE LEANED INTO THAT ONE, COULD NOT BEAT THE OILRS >> John S.: GET ROGE INTERNET 5 FOR THE EVERYDAY LOW PRICE OFTHE $24.99. CALL ROGERS TODAY. >> John G.: BARTKOWSKI WITH THE PK, ONE TIMES IT AND SUTTER WITH TIME,HINKING THAT HE CAN BEAT TALBOT HERE, HIGH GLOVESIDE ND YOU COULD SEE THAT HE ROBBED HIM, TALBOT. >> John S.: DORSETT LOOKINGO FORCE THAT PUCK BACK AND IN FRONT. PRUST AFTER IT NOW FOR VANCOUVER. DORSETT TURNS IN THE CORNER. STILL WITH THE PUCK. KLINKHAMMER SENDSTHAT PUCK OUT TO CENTRE. TALBOT, STEERS IT TO THE CORNER AS THE CANUCKS ARECHANGING, CRACKNELL, LETING HIS TEAMMATES HERE GET BACK INTO THE PLAY. NIKITA NIKITIN WITH I. WAITS FOR THAT PUCK. THE OILERS, THEY COMPLETE THEIR CHANGE AND JUST ABOUT NINE MINUTES INTO THE THIRD, THE CANUCKS LEADING IT BY THREE. LEON DAISAITL HERE PLAYING THE PUCK AHEAD AND BURRWS, VEY, CARRIES IT IN. BURROWS, WHISTLING IT OVERTOP OF THE GOAL. GRYBA WITH IT. HIT BY BURROWS, NIKITIN, HE JUST UNLOADED THAT PUCK TO CENTRE. THE OILERS, HAVINGSOME TROUBLE HERE GETTING UP-ICETHIS PERIOD. WEBER NOW. DROPS IT TO ALEX BIEGA. AN OILERS PENALTY IS COMING UP THERE GOES MARKSTROM TO THE BENCH. A DEAYED CALL. EDMONTON TOUCHING TE PUCK, THE WHISE BLOWS FOR A HOLDING CA CALL. >> Referee: EDMONTON PENALTY, 51, HOLDING. >> John G.: IT IA GRAB OF THE STICK, THE SHOULDER. AND IT IS ANDER WHO HAD A HAT TRICK LAST GAME AGAINST THE COYOTES, HE HAS BEEN NON-EXISTENT IN THIS ONE. >> John S.: AND TO CLARIFY THE CANUCKS ARE 2-2, WEBER AND VIRTANEN THE GOALS IN THE SECOND PERIOD, BOTH OF THEM WITH THE MAN ADVATAGE. >> John G.: ANOTHER VERY GO MARKSTROM MOVE FROM BEHIND THE NET. >> John.: STARTING TO FEEL IT. >> John G.: YES >> John S.: THE PUCK BACK, NOW TO THE BLUE LINE. IT IS A SHOT THERE. THE WHISTLE HERE IN FRONT. >> John G.: THIS IS JACOB MARKSTROM ONCEAGAIN. OKAY, A CUTE MOVE. HERE HE COMES. MARKSTROM RIGHT THERE. BACKHAND OFF THE BOARDS AND THIS HERE IS A CONFIDENT GOALTENDER IN THE THIRD PERIO ROBERTO LUONGO WAS NOT A VERY GOOD PU HANDLER AND EDDIE LACK, HE DID NOT HANDLE THE PUCK VERY WELL. >> John S.: 1:25 TO GO IN THE POWER PLAY, IT IS PURCELL WHO SENDS ITBACK. AND NOW HAMHUIS WITH A PASSFOR VEY, THAT ONE OUT OF HIS REACH AND SEKERA SENDS THAT PUCK BACK INTO HIS OPEN ZONE — HIS OWN ZONE. McCANN NOW, THE PUCK BACK TO HIM. CARRYING IT OVER HE OILERS LINE. IT IS SEERA WITH IT. A PASS FOR LINDEN VEY. THE OILERS CLEARING THE LINE. A NICE HO. VIRTANEN SHARP ANGLE SHOT. HITTING THE OUTSIDE OF THE POST AND VIRTANEN, HE FALLS DOWN. IT I KLINKHAMER WHO CENTRES, PLAYING THE PUCK DOWN. AND IT IS GIVEN AWAY BUT BARTKOWSKI THERE INTERCEPTS IN FRONT OF HIS OWN GOAL. UNDER NINEMINUTES TO GO IN THE THIRD. CANUCKS WITH LESS THAN 20 SENDS TO GO ON THE POWER PLAY, BAERTSCHI AT THE SIDE PICKS IT UP. IT IS BAERTSCHI TO HUTTON. HE SPINS AWAY FROM HALL. OFF THE GLAS AND DOWN. THAT WILL DO IT. THE CANUCKS 2-3 AS LANDER RETURNS TO THE GAME. HE DID N TEST TALBOT WITH THAT MAP ADVANTAGE BUT STILL MAINTAIN AGO THREE-GOAL LEAD WITH A LITTLE OVER EIGHT MINUTES TO G. IT IS URROWS WITH IT. A CHECK BY GRYBA. BAERTSCHI, WITH ALEX BURROWS, LOOKING FOR ACHIP OVER THE MIDDLE WHICH NEVER GAME. IT IS REINHART, HIT BY DOSETT AFTER HE MADE IS PASS. SBISA NOW TO BIEGA. A LITTLE BURST THERE GETTING IN ON THE LEFT WING AND A WRISTER, INTO THE GLOVE OF TALBOT WHO HANGS ON WITH 7:45 NOW REMAINING IN TH THIRD, THE CANUCKS FIVE AND T PLEASE STAND BY ] [ ATTEMPTING TO ACQUIRE AUDIO ] [ PLEASE STAND BY ] [ PLEASE STAND BY ] >> John S.: THIS IS BENOIT POIOT, PRESSURING SBISA, HE FINDS BIEGA IN TRAFFIC. >> John G.: THAT SHOULD BE A PENALTY, NOT CALLED. >> John S.: AND SBISA, HE JUT BROKE THE STICK OF POULIOT THERE RIGHT IN HALF, IN FRONT O THE WATSON AND NOW POULIOT TAKING A RUN AT SBISA IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE. THIS IS PRUST. SUTTER NOW, HE TRIES TO FEED THE BLUE LINE. THE PUCK NOW KICKED TO CENTRE BY SCHULTZ AS BARKOWSKI BRINGS IT BACK IN. PASS INTERCEPTED. NOW IT IS HALL. McDAVID, TRAILING. HALL STOPS. SENDING THE PUCK IN. IT IS SLEPYSHEV, AND NOW NIKITIN MOVING IN. McDAVID, PRUST, HISPASS IS BLOCKED. NIKI NIKITIN, A SHOT, BLOCKED. LOOSE PUCK. PICKED UP BY BARTKOWSKI. McCN WITH IT HAMHUIS, SUTTER, THAT PASS BOUNCING OVER HIS STICK AND COULD YOU HEAR HAMHUIS, HE WAS BANGING THE ICE AS A TRAILER, OPEN, MOVING DOWN THE MIDDLE. THAT PASS FOR SUTTER, THAT DID NOT CLIC HALL, A WRISTER IN. THAT ONE F THE GLASS. BIEGA,LOOKING UP THE ICE. SIX MINUTES TO GO IN THE THIRD, HANSEN, CHIPPING THAT PUCK INTO OILERS TERRORY. IT IS LEON DRAISAIT, HE COULD NOT CATCH UP WITH IT WEBER WITH THE PUCK NOW. BURROWS TAKES IT. CHECKED THERE BYREINHART LOOKING TO MOVE IT IN AND NOW GRYBA IS THERE TO START OUT WIH IT. AHEAD NOW T LANDER. IT IS LEON DRAISTL WITH IT, RIGHT SIDE. YAKUPOV, LOOKING FOR LEON DRAISAITL GOING TO THENET AS THE CANUCKS PICK UP THE LOOSE PUCK AND NOW CHIP I OUT. BAERTSCHI, PRESSING HIS MAN, YAKUPOV. PLAYING IT NOW OFFSIDE, HUTTON, HE GOT A PIECE OF THAT ONE. WE STEP ASIDE ON >> Dan: AN EVENTFUNIGHT FOR ONE LINE OF THE CANUCKS, THE LINE INVOLVING JAKE VIRTANEN. >> John G.: HE WAS VERY GOOD HERE, TAKING THIS ONE OFF THE FACE AND HE WAVES TO CROWD, A VETERAN MOVE AND VIRTANEN RIGHT THERE, TO HORVAT, SNAPPING IT PAST TALBOT AND THATINE HAS BEEN VERY, VERY GOOD. TEN POINTS. AND FOR BAERSCHI, HE HAD SIX POINTS I 18 GAMES LAST YEAR IN THE NHL AND HE HAS GOT FOUR IN THIS ONE. DO YOU THINK THAT TALK RADIO WILL BE A LITTLE QUIETER >> John S.: WELL, HIS TIMING WA GOOD. IT IS NUGENT-HOINS, AROUND THE NET, STILL WITH THE PUCK AND HE DISHESIT OFF. SCHULTZ, LOOKING FOR A WRISTER. NUGENT-HOPKINSONCE MORE. BLOCKED THERE BY SBISA. POIOT. BUMPED BY SBISA. SBISA HITS PULIOT ONCE AGAIN. A ROSS-CHECK THERE. GOING AFTER POULIOT, SBISA ONCE MORE. BOTH OF THEM WILL GO BUT NOT BEFORE THEY COME TOGETHER ONE MORE TIME. >> John G.: YES, BENOIT POULIOT, PLAYING A VERY AGGRESSIVE GAME. AND THE OILERS, HE TIS WANT TO BE TOUGHER UP FRONT ND SBISA AND POULIOT, THEY HADTHE ALTERCATION BEFOREWHERE SBISA HAD CHOPPED HIS STICK RIGHT IN HALF AND PEOPLE WODER WHERE THE EDGES GOING TO COME FROM ON THE BLUE LINE FOR THE CANCKS, AND I THINK THAT SWISSIA M PROVIDE SOME OF THAT. THE SLA ON THE STICK RIGHT THERE, NO CALL MADE BY THE OFFICIAL AND THEN TWO SHIFTS LATER BOTH OF THEM ARE IN THE PENALTY BOX. >> John S.: POULIOT FOR CROSS-CHECKING AND SBISA FOR ROUGHING AT 15:29 AND NOW THEY WILL PLAY FOUR-ON-FOUR. THE OILERS HERE WITH THE PUCK, SCHULTZ. SEKERA. IF YOU WERE NOT WITH US EARLIER, YES, HE WAS SEKERA. [ INFLECTION ] >> JohS.: AND NOW HE HAS ASKED TO GO BACKTO SEKERA. [ INFLECTION ] >> John G.: THAT COURTESY OF KEVIN QUINN. >> John S.: THE PRE SUTTER, KNOCKING THAT PUCK AWAY, NOW CHASING AFTER IT. SCHULTZ HERE FOR NOW THE OILERS. AND NOW UNDER FOUR MINUTES TOGO IN THE THIRD PERIOD. THE CANUCKS WITH THREE UNANSWERED GOALS SINCE THE START OF PERIOD NUMBER TWO. THIS S McDAVID WITH GOOD STRENGTH, LOOKING TO CENTRE AS HE WENT AROUND THE NET. THE OILERS NOW, THEY BRING IT OUT AND TO CENTRE WITH YAKUPOV HERE, IN ON THE DEFENSE. A SHOT, CENTERING PASS AND THAT PUCK OFF OF THE CANUCKS PLAYER IN FRNT AND MARKSTROM ALERTLY ABLE TO STOP THAT ONE AND THEN COVERS UP. >John G.: AND NAIL YAKUPOV WITH A GOAL ALREADY. THE INSIDE-OUTSIDE MOVE RIGHT THERE. IT IS MARKSTROM THERETO MAKE THE SAVE. >> John S.: JUST ABOUT A MINUTE TO GO IN THE FUR-ON-FOUR. T IS BARTKOWSKI, HERE TO HANSEN. LINDEN VEY. LOOKING TO GET AROUND GRYBA. AND IT IS MATT BARTWSKI LOOKING TO BLOCK THAT SHOT. AND THE PUCK NOW IS CLEARED OUT TO CENTRE WITH THREE MINUTES TO GO IT IS LINDEN VEY. CRACKNELL. A PASS BACK. AND IT LOOKED LIKE IT CAME OUT. IT IS HAMHUIS, TRIED TO CENTRE. FALLING DOWN. FERENCE NOW INGING THE PUCK HERE TO NEUTRAL ICE. CHASING IN NOW ON BEINGIA. HE PICKS UP THE PUCK. NOW SETTLES IT IN HIS OWN ZONE. AT LEAST HE TRIED TO. STICKHANDLING HERE TOWARDS THE HAMHUIS, CRACKNELL WITH IT. GETTING AWAY FROM HENDRICKS WITH HE PUCK NOW ONTO THE STICK OF BIEGA. DEK DORSETT, NOW TO WEBER. AND IT IS WEBER WITH IT, THE TEAMS NOW BACK TO FULL STRENGTH FOR HE FINAL TWO MINUTES, DORSETT NOW TO PRUST, NIKITIN WITH THE PUCK HERE AROUND FOR SEKERA. COULD NOT GET IT OUT. THE CANUCKS LOOKING TO TAKE ADNTAGE, McCANN, NOW TO PRUST. STOPPED BY TALBOT. IT IS SBIS LOOKING TO FIND McCANN. THE PUCK DEFLECTS IT TO THE SIDE. AND THE CANUCKS NOW REGROUP AT CENTRE. McCANN. >> Dan: AND NOW A FT CENTRE IT IS HENDRICK AND DORSETT WITH 1:30 TO GO AND HENDRICKS, HE LOST HIS HELMET ANDTHEN HE FELL DOWN AWKWARDLY THERE IN FRONT OF THE BENCH. NO, NO, HE DID NOT LOSE THAT HELMET, IT WAS ON ITS WAY OFF AND HE MIGHT HAV HURT HIS HAND RIGHT THERE >> John G.: YES. 91 SECONDS LEFT, MacSTROM GIVG DORSETT A HIGH FIVE ON S WAY PAST. AND THERE YOU SEE THE LASH, BACK AND FORTH AS THEY GO OFF FOR THE CHANGE. YOU WA TO GO. YOU WANT TO GO? YEAH? AND WE HAVE NOT SEEN A LOT OF THIS, IN FACT THIS IS THE FIRST FIGHT THAT THE CANUCKS HAVE HAD IN THE PRESEON AND YOU AND I HAVE DONELL OF THE GAMES AND YOUR MEMORY IS THAT OOD. IT IS. >> John S.: Y, DORSETT, HE WAS VERY BUSY IN THAT DEPARTMENT LAST YEAR AND THAT WAS ONE REASON WHY THE CANUCKS BROUGHT BACK PRUST AND DORSETT SAID THAT HE SENT JIM BENNING A THANK YOU TEXT. >> John G.: YES. >> JohS.: AND SO THE TEAMS REMAIN EVEN NOW. NUGENT-HOPKINS, A QUICK SHIFT THERE TO GET AROUND KEINS, PLAYING THAT PUCK NOW INTO THE VANCOUVER ZONE. IT IS HUTTON NOW. FINAL MINUTE OF PLAY. CANUCKS LEAD IT 5-2, BIEGA GLOVES THAT PUCK OFF THE BOARDS, TO HIMSELF AND NOW STARTS THE PLAY HERE AT CENTRE AS KENINS FINDS ROOM, GETS THAT PUCK IN DEEP. NOW GETS IT HIMSELF. AND SCHULTZ WITH IT FROM THE CORNER. OVER TO REINHAR AND HERE COMES POULIOT. HE LIFTS THAT PUCK TO THE VANCOUVER LINE. HAMHUIS, HE GLOVES IT DOWN. HANSEN IS IN. ADROP TO HAMHUIS. PUTTING IT IN FRONT. SHOT, KICKED OUT, BURROWS HAD IT HOP OVER HIS STICK GOING AFTER THAT LOOSE PUCK ATOP THE GOAL CREASE. [ WHISTLE ] >> ohn S.: AND OFFSIDE GO THE OILERS WIT 24 SECONDS LEFT. >> John G.: AND THE VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOW WITHOUT SOME O THEIR KEY PLAYERS UP FRONT, AND ON DEFENSE. ALEX EDLER AND CHRISTANEV NOT HERE BUT THAT ONE LINE, HE BO HORVAT LINE, IT HAS DOMINATED AND ADAM CACKNELL, HE HAS MADE A CASE VIA CALL-UP ANYWAYS, SHOWING HERE THAT E — THAT HE CAN WIN TE CONFIDENCE OF THE COACH. >> John S.: IT IS ONLY PRESEASON BUT THE CANUCKS ARE POISED TO CONTINUE THEIR DOMINANCE EDMONTON. McDAVID, FIGHTING OFF A HOOK. HE MOVES N HE CANUCKS WENT 5-0 AGAINST THE OILERS IN THE REGULAR ASON LAST YEAR. [ HORN SOUNDS ] >> JohS.: AND THEY WIN THIS GAME IN CONVINCING FASHION, JACOB MARKSTROM STOPPING 21 SHOTS, CAM TALBOT BEATEN FIVE TIM ON 29. IT WAS A BIG NIGHT FOR THE LIE CENTRED BY BO HORVAT, SCORED TWICE, HAD AN ASSIST, JAKE VIRTANEN WITH A GOAL AND TWO AND BAESCHI WITH FOUR ASSISTS AND McDAVID LOKING GOOD BUT HE COULD NOT LIFT HIS TEAM TO VICTORY HERE AGAINST HE CANUCKS. >> John G.: AND THE OILS, THEY WILL HAVE PROBLEM IT IS THEY PLAY THAT WAY DEFENSIVELY BUT THEY CAN CREATE CHANCES AND THEY ARE FUN TO WATCH. CONNOR McDAVID AND TAYLOR HALL, THEY LOOK LIKE THEY’VE GOT SOME REAL GOOD CHEMISTRY TOGETHER WHENEVER THEY ARE ON THE ICE AND YOU KNOW THAT THE OILERS WILL GET THEIR CHANCES. >>ohn S.: THE OILERS NOW -1, THEIR FIRST DEFEAT OF THE PRESEASON, A LOOK TO YOUR THREE STARS. >> John G.HARD TO DECIDE WHICH OF THE HORVAT LINE WOULD BE THE FIRST STAR BUT BO HORVAT WITH THE TWO GOAS AND IS A CONVENIENT BAERTSCHI, HE NEEDED AFIRMATION THAT HE BELONGED AND HE DID THAT, FOUR ASSISTS AND JAKE VIRTANEN, ONE GOAL OFF THE FACE, HE GETS THIRD STAR. >> John S.: BOTH OF THESE TEAMS, ONE PRESEASON GAME LEFT AND IT WILL BE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, SATURDAY NIGHT AND CONNOR McDAVID, HE HD AN ASSIST ON THE OPENINGOAL, CREATING A NUMBER OF CHANCES THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT BUT THE CANUCKS KIDS, THEY PREVAILED, 5-2 YOUR FINAL HE IN EDMONTON. WE THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH