Game Dee Tree: Bruins at Oilers

The Bruins are in Edmonton tonight

The Bruins face the Edmonton McDavids tonight, at Rogers Place. The Oilers have just come off a convincing win on Sunday afternoon, but that follows a 6-game slide.
RNH – a.k.a. “The NUUUUUUGE!” is injured with cracked ribs, and will not be appearing tonight.

Presidential advisor Ted Nugent

via GIPHY

Sorry, pal.
Also out is Andrej Sekera, and possibly Al Montoya – who had a recent head injury.

The Bruins had been working an impressive points streak throughout December & January, but have been a bit more mortal lately, with a demoralizing loss to Vancouver prior to the win vs the Flames.
The Bruins came off of a good win in Calgary last night — a close game in which Tuukka Rask had an excellent performance. So naturally, we will see Glorious Goaltender Khudobin tonight. (it is the 2nd night of a back-to-back, after all). Our top forward line of Marchand/Bergeron/Pastrnak were the bringers of points last night. Hopefully more points are available tonight. Also seemingly available is defenseman Kevan Miller. Is this the day returns to the lineup? Or do we ride the Grizz a little longer?

Let’s do some lines…

Forward Lines
Brad Marchand	Patrice Bergeron	David Pastrnak
Jake DeBrusk	David Krejci	Ryan Spooner
Danton Heinen	Riley Nash	David Backes
Tim Schaller	Sean Kuraly	Noel Acciari
Defensive pairs
Zdeno Chara	Charlie McAvoy
Torey Krug	Brandon Carlo
Matt Grzelcyk	Adam McQuaid
Goaltending
Anton Khudobin	(Tuukka Rask)

The Flames will send out the following guys, if the last game is any clue:
Forwards
Patrick Maroon — Connor McDavid — Drake Caggiula
Milan Lucic — Leon Draisaitl — Michael Cammalleri
Jujhar Khaira — Ryan Strome — Anton Slepyshev
Jesse Puljujarvi — Mark Letestu — Zack Kassian

Defensemen
Darnell Nurse — Adam Larsson
Oscar Klefbom — Kris Russell
Brandon Davidson — Matt Benning

Goaltender
Cam Talbot
backup: (Al Montoya)