Oilers to start Pickard in goal against Predators
Calvin Pickard will make his second start of the Edmonton Oilers’ season Thursday night in Nashville.
The backup goaltender last received the call to man Edmonton’s goal for a full 60 minutes on Saturday in a 5-2 home loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.
“It’s a good chance to bounce back for me personally, not the start I wanted against Chicago, but you have to have a short-term memory in this league, and it’s a great opportunity,” Pickard told media Thursday after the Oilers’ morning skate.
Thursday’s 6 p.m. MT game against the Predators is the first of two on a short Edmonton road trip. The Oilers are scheduled to play the Stars in a Dallas matinee (2 p.m.)
“The first game wasn’t his best, but we know that he knows how to respond, (he) had an outstanding season last year, and (he knows how to) just come and play in this game because we’ve got a lot of confidence in him,” Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch said Thursday.
Both Pickard and Knoblauch commented on Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’s earlier discussion with media Thursday about the team’s resiliency – “We don’t quit on each other,” Nugent-Hopkins said. “We (had) some adversity against Philly (in Tuesday’s overtime Oilers win). Like most games, it’s never smooth sailing” – something talked about often last season during the team’s run to the Stanley Cup final after a poor start to the campaign.
Pickard said the 4-3 win over Philadelphia “was a big step for us.”
“Things weren’t going our way,” he said, recalling the physical, come-from-behind performance.
“We’re down 2-0 early in the game, and we just clawed our way back, didn’t try to get back all at once, and had some good physical plays and a couple of fights to get us going emotionally, and got the win at the end.”
Oilers’ projected lineup
Forward
Leon Draisaitl • Connor McDavid • Zach Hyman
Vasily Podkolzin • Ryan Nugent-Hopkins • Viktor Arvidsson
Jeff Skinner • Adam Henrique • Connor Brown
Mattias Janmark • Derek Ryan • Corey Perry
Defence
Mattias Ekholm • Evan Bouchard
Darnell Nurse • Troy Stecher
Brett Kulak • Ty Emberson
Goal
Calvin Pickard • Stuart Skinner
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