The Edmonton Oilers begin a two-game road trip on Thursday night at PPG Paints Arena against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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PRE-GAME REPORT

PITTSBURGH, PA - The Oilers are looking to bring their consistency into performance when they take on the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday.
The in-game ebbs and flows have been frequent, but the results have been consistent. Over the last 16 games, the Oilers have been held pointless once. The 42-day stretch has not been up to the standards the locker room expects for themselves, but the points all add up at the end of the season.
"At that time were coming out of the Christmas break and I really felt were finding our footing as a team. We were starting to get healthy, which is a big thing, and for the team to gather points in that many games and over that period of time, that's a huge feather in the cap of our players," Head Coach Jay Woodcroft said about the stretch.
"We haven't been perfect. We've lost a couple of leads that we would have liked to get the two points in, but when you're in the points-gathering business like we are right now, it's a good sign."
Former Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Cody Ceci was a big part of the Oilers success down the stretch last season. Through 58 games in 2021-22, the Oilers were 31-23-4 and went on to finish 49-27-6. The Oilers are currently four points better than they were last year, with a 31-19-8 record.
Edmonton's defence was able to tighten up and the team went on an 18-4-2 run to finish the regular season on their way to the Western Conference Final. Ceci says the team is trying to do that once again after letting a few points slip through their fingers in the previous weeks.
"I think we've let a few games kind of slip when we had the leads and didn't close them out, so those kind of stung," Ceci said. "We did end up getting a point out of the game, which is still big in the playoff push, but at the same time I think those were games that we wanted to close out and win. So yeah, I think we're just trying to tighten our game up heading into the last little stretch."

The Oilers will have their work cut out for them. Pittsburgh isn't playing up to their usual level, but they still have Stanley Cup pedigree and the second oldest roster in the NHL. The Penguins have a core of players like Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Jake Guentzel, and Kris Letang who have been playing together for a long time and have seen almost anything the Oilers can throw at them.
"I just think that we have to go into the game with a certain type of mindset," Woodcroft said. "You said that this team has a lot of veteran hockey players. They know how to win. They know what their recipe is to win. They know they have an identity that they need to play towards in order to have success. That's fine. That's their plan. That's what they do.
"I think on most nights it comes down to how hard your team is going to play. Are we prepared to play towards our identity and to understand that in order to have success tonight, we have to do certain things very well? It's our job as coaches to make sure our players understand that and certainly tonight. If we don't, the other team has the people in their locker room that can make you pay."

STUEY STARTS

At the Oilers morning practice at PPG Paints Arena, it was Stuart Skinner who manned the usual starter's crease and is expected to occupy the blue paint for the Blue & Orange tonight.
The 24-year-old is coming off a solid performance against the Philadelphia Flyers where he turned aside 24-of-26 shots for the victory. Despite the win, Skinner still feels there is room to improve on his first win since Jan 21.
"It's been a while since I had that feeling of winning, so it felt really good to feel those emotions and I was pretty pumped and pretty excited after that win," Skinner said. "To be honest, I thought I was very average; possibly below average. I was able to make a good stop in the third, but besides that, the guys really rallied in front of me and were able to get the win, and that's what really matters and hopefully I'll better tonight."

The Oilers all-star starter holds himself to a very high standard and has delivered for the Oilers for the majority of the season. The goaltender's .930 save percentage while at five-on-five ranks eighth in the National Hockey League among goaltenders who have played at least 500 minutes. Despite picking up the victory, Skinner's belief that he can be better is a key component in a locker room looking to achieve hockey's summit.
"I think all of us, we all hold each other and hold ourselves accountable and at high standards, I think you kind of have to try to keep growing and keep getting better and trying to be the best that you could possibly be," Skinner said. "I definitely try to, but I obviously want to be the best that I can possibly be so I'm trying to come up with every single save out there."
On Tuesday Skinner toppled his friendly local rival in Carter Hart to pick up the win. Tonight, he will likely go up against another familiar foe in Tristan Jarry, who spent parts of four seasons with the Edmonton Oil Kings.
"I played against him when he was on the Oil Kings, he was the top dog in the WHL," Skinner said. "Obviously, he's unbelievably one of the best goalies in the world today, so it's going to be a lot of fun to play him. I know Carter (Hart) skates with him in the summer. I tried to this summer but it ended up not working out. I definitely know of him, and it'll be a lot of fun to play against them."

Jarry has continued to be a reliable puck stopper at the NHL level since he left the Oil Kings. In three of his last four seasons, the 27-year-old has recorded a save percentage of .919 or better. However, he will be going up against a goaltender who had his number in the few brief Western Hockey League meetings.
The last WHL meeting between the two occurred while Skinner was a 16-year-old goaltender with the Lethbridge Hurricanes back on Feb. 3, 2015. The young future Oilers goaltender turned aside 49-of-52 shots to pick up the 4-3 victory on the evening over Jarry and the Oil Kings.
In order to come out with the victory tonight, Skinner is going to have to shut down an NHL icon in Sidney Crosby.
"It's incredible. It's going to be my first time being on the same ice as him, like in a game," Skinner said. I've gotten to see him in warm up and that's probably a good thing, because it kind of gets the kind of the shock out of the way. Now I get to just go and play against him. I saw him at the All-Star Game, too, which was nice. I was able to say hi, so that kind of lets my nerves go off easy. It'll be a lot of fun. Hopefully he gets a couple of shots so I can say that I stopped Sidney Crosby."
-- Michael Arcuri, EdmontonOilers.com

PREVIEW

OILERS vs. PENGUINS
WATCH: 5:00 p.m. MT; televised on Sportsnet West
Oilers Team Scope
The Oilers head to Pittsburgh on the heels of a 4-2 victory over the Penguins' state rival the Philadelphia Flyers at Rogers Place on Tuesday night.
The visitors were able to frustrate Edmonton's offence for a majority of the night, holding the Oilers to just 10 shots and a single power-play goal through 40 minutes, until a third period explosion propelled the Blue & Orange to victory.
"I thought we didn't really have our stuff. We were pretty flat. Only 10 shots through 40, that's not good enough," Connor McDavid said after the game. "I thought we had a great response. Give them credit, they played us hard. They're a stingy team and kind of keep everything to the outside, and I thought we did a good job of generating offence there in the third."
Leon Draisaitl notched a milestone moment for a trio of Oilers players, ripping home his 34th goal of the season on the power play 6:49 into the third. The marker was the 700th point of Draisaitl's career, while the assist by McDavid was the 800th point of his career. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also collected a point on the goal, giving him 70 on the season to establish a new career high for the versatile forward.
McDavid would score twice, one off a deflected pass and one in the empty net to seal the contest for the Oilers. Stuart Skinner won his 14th game of the season, stopping 22-of-24 Flyers shots in the victory.

Penguins Team Scope
Pittsburgh enters Thursday night's contest having lost their last three games -- two of them to the New York Islanders.
Their most recent defeat came on Monday night in a 4-2 home loss to the Long Island squad. It was NHL All-star Ilya Sorkokin who stole the show with a 44-save performance for his 19th victory of the season. Pittsburgh opened the scoring courtesy of Jake Guentzel who notched his 24th of the season. The 28-year-old is one-goal off the team lead of 25 by Sidney Crosby. The two sides traded second period goals, giving the Penguins a 2-1 lead heading into the final 20 minutes.
The Islanders rallied with a three-goal third period, with tallies by Bo Horvat, Brock Nelson, and Anders Lee to take the full two-points on the evening.
"We had a couple of chances to extend the lead, we didn't," Crosby said. "You're one mistake away from it being a tie game and momentum shifting. Couldn't find a way to build on the lead."
"It's not ideal when you lose games when you have leads," he added. "The only way out of it is to find a way to win one."
The Oilers and Penguins already met back at Rogers Place back on Oct. 24, with the Oilers coming away with a 6-3 victory. Pittsburgh jumped out to a 3-1 advantage two-minutes into the second period, but Edmonton rallied off five-straight goals to pick up the early season win.

By The Numbers
The Oilers are 10-1-5 in their last 16 games and have the NHL's second-best record since Jan. 11... The Oilers are averaging 4.44 goals-per game over that stretch and have the league's second-best goal differential at plus-24... The Oilers are the only team with more than two 27-goal scorers this season, with McDavid (44), Draisaitl (34), Hyman (27), and Nugent-Hopkins (27)... McDavis became the fifth-fastest player to 80 points with his third-period assist against the Flyers on Tuesday at 545 games... Sidney Crosby needed 571 games to hit the 800-point mark in his career... The Oilers captain also became the fifth-youngest player to hit that milestone at 26 years and 39 days...
McDavid's game-winning goal on Tuesday tied him for second all-time in Oilers franchise history with Wayne Gretzky (61 goals)... McDavid and Draisaitl are tied for the NHL lead in game-winning goals since '20-21 at 28 each... Crosby is tied for fourth in the NHL in three-point games this season with nine... The three players ahead of Crosby all play for the Edmonton Oilers (McDavid, Draisaitl, Nugent-Hopkins)... The Penguins are 13 points worse this season than they were at the same time last season... Pittsburgh also has a minus-35 goal differential worse than they had through 56 games year over year.... Crosby is currently on pace to have his 18th season where he averages at least one point-per-game, the second most seasons next to Wayne Gretzky...
Injury Report
OILERS - Oscar Klefbom (shoulder) is on IR; Mike Smith (undisclosed) is on IR;
Ryan Murray 
(undisclosed) is on IR; Klim Kostin (illness) is day-to-day; Evander Kane (upper body) is day-to-day.
PENGUINS - Jan Rutta (upper body) is day-to-day; Mark Friedman (undisclosed) is day-to-day; Ryan Poehling (undisclosed) is day-to-day.
-- Michael Arcuri, EdmontonOilers.com