The Edmonton Oilers carry their four-game win streak into a Thursday night clash with the Tampa Bay Lightning at Rogers Place.
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PRE-GAME REPORT

EDMONTON, AB - The Oilers seem to have found their game as of late, coming into tonight's contest winners of four-in-a-row.
"I think winning is fun, and when you win, you go to the rink and everyone's in a good mood," Warren Foegele said about the team's recent run. "I think our vibe has been good because we're believing in the process that we've been playing and we're seeing results as well, so we got to keep playing the same way and tonight's a big task against a good team."
With the three-in-a-row Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning on the docket, the winners of two of the last three Stanley Cups should serve as a perfect measuring stick to see how far the Oilers game has come.
"They've been the pinnacle of the league the last, you know, as long as I can remember," Jack Campbell said. "Anytime they come into town, it's always a tough game and I think we're ready."
Although the Lightning currently sit third in the Atlantic Division behind the juggernaut Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs, they sport the NHL's fifth-best record at 29-13-1 and an excellent plus-33 goal differential on the season.
Nikita Kucherov continues to the lead the way for the Lightning, striking opponents for 18 goals and 46 assists in 43 games this year as the NHL's third-leading scorer. His sniper counterpart in Steven Stamkos continues to dominate into his 15th NHL season, with 21 goals on the year. The 32-year-old is coming off a hat trick performance on Wednesday against the Calgary Flames where he recorded his 500th, 501st, and 202nd NHL goals, becoming the 47th member of the 500 club.
"I can tell you this as a former Markham Waxer (Ontario AAA hockey) myself, I'm very happy that Steven Stamkos scored that 500th goal yesterday," Oilers Head Coach Jay Woodcroft said. "His career speaks for itself. He's a two-time Stanley Cup champion. He's a fixture in the community in Tampa Bay. He's one of the game's best players and his longevity speaks for itself. He's represented our country on numerous occasions. As a former Markham Waxer and Toronto area guy, I'm proud of him."

"He's a heck of a player and great guy, too," Campbell said about the former first-overall pick. "It's always fun to battle against the best, and that'll be tonight."
One point of emphasis for the Oilers will be staying out of the penalty box. The only team in the NHL that is more lethal than the Lightning (28.6 per cent) with the man advantage is the Oilers (30.7 per cent).
"I think the best thing we can do is make sure that we're not taking any unnecessary stick penalties, especially ones away from our net or away from our end," Woodcroft said. "We want to make sure we play a disciplined game. In terms of the specifics, I'm not going to outlay them here in the morning before the game, but what I would say is you have to have an awareness of where their threats are. The great thing about their power play is they have five threats on the ice at all times, so you want to make sure that you don't get too extended, and you don't want to give up the layups."

SOUP ON THE MENU

The Oilers will turn back to Jack Campbell between the pipes on Thursday as 'Soup' continues to build off a series of strong performances.
In his last eight games (seven starts), Campbell sports five wins along with a 2.02 goals-against average and a .915 save percentage.
"I see someone who's earned the right to feel that way. He's earned that right through a lot of hard work, he's made some adjustments to his game, and he's really played well," Woodcroft said. "It's a credit to him and we're going to need him as we work our way through. But specifically, since post-Christmas, his game has really taken off."
Campbell's best game of the season arguably came against the Lightning in Tampa Bay back on Nov. 8 when he turned aside 37 of 39 shots in the Oilers 3-2 victory. The 31-year-old is 3-1-1 with a 2.36 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage against the Lightning in his career.
"I'm just settling in and getting my confidence and swagger back and been feeling pretty good for a little while now and just want to keep it going," Campbell said. "I definitely tend to try to do too much, and I think that got the best of me early in the year. It's just nice the group we have, everybody's supportive and I'm trying to learn from it to be the person I can be, on and off the ice."

WORKING FIVE TO SHINE

As the Oilers game has rounded into form, two main culprits can be pointed to for the improvement - their commitment to team defence and their five-on-five scoring.
Edmonton has allowed three or less goals in six of their last seven games, and over that stretch, 23 of their 31 goals have come at even strength (with two more coming shorthanded).
"I think as a team, we're just managing the puck really well and we're making a strong effort to know everyone helps out in the D-zone," Warren Foegele said about the team's play. "I think just managing the puck and not giving away free goals has been a big step for us.
Campbell has been the recipient of the benefits of the Oilers tighter defensive focus, and he has seen how the unit has played from his view inside the crease.
"I feel like we're playing as a unit, and we're connected, and all lines are going," Campbell said. "All the D are going right now and it's a lot of fun right now, so we just got to keep it going."
"In our 11-and-7 rotation, I think all of us are just getting more of a rhythm out there and kind of finding a role and finding ways to contribute," Foegele said. "It's not always on the stat sheet. It's being good in your D-zone or drawing penalties or getting some O-zone shifts. I think everyone here is just trying to help the team as much as they can and try to do that moving forward."
The run also coincides with the Oilers starting to get healthy and allowing those players who missed some time to skate themselves back into a rhythm.
"I think what happens is when your team gets healthy and you have multiple people competing for places in the lineup or competing for ice time, I think it benefits the entire team as a whole, because you're getting everybody's best effort just from the fact that nobody wants to be the person that doesn't play that night or that doesn't play a lot that night," Woodcroft said. "There is the threat of another really good player waiting in the wings just in case you don't have it that night. I think we've talked a lot here over the last few weeks about hard decisions. We've talked a lot about how nothing great ever comes from comfort zones."

D-IFFERENT D-IRECTIONS

With the Oilers running an 11-and-7 alignment for all of the games in the last six that they've allowed three or less goals, there has been a lot of opportunity for Edmonton's young defencemen to shine.
Philip Broberg has seen his ice time climb as he has settled into a full time NHL role. The Swede has three assists and a plus-10 rating in his last seven contests. The elder rookie in the 26-year-old Vincent Desharnais has also been solid since he's been introduced the the Oilers defensive rotation. The 6-foot-7 defender has two assists and a plus-3 rating in his four career NHL games.
"I think no matter how you play, I think the confidence is just huge. I think both of them are oozing with confidence, playing their games extremely well, and it's huge for our team," Campbell said about the rookie D-men. "I think you're seeing that we're reaping the rewards of those two coming in and playing so well. Obviously, we need them to win games, and that's what we've been doing."
The two defencemen couldn't have had a more opposite path to the same destination. Broberg is a highly touted eighth-overall pick from the 2019 NHL Draft who made his NHL debut at the age of 20. Desharnais on the other hand, was selected in the final round of the 2016 NHL Draft and didn't play his first game in an Oilers jersey (regular season or exhibition) until he skated against the Anaheim Ducks back on Jan. 11. However, the 26-year-old has impressed in his short time wearing the Blue & Orange.
"I think he has a clear understanding of the type of player that he is. I think he has an emotional maturity to his game that now his physical maturity has caught up to. I think he's hit the necessary developmental steps along the way and he's taking advantage of an opportunity," Woodcroft said. "I don't think he's phased by the league or the opportunity that's in front of him. He knows and was given a very clear message that when he got called up, he wasn't here just because he's a good guy. We want players to not just make the team but make the team better and he clearly got that message. He's comfortable in his own skin and he showed well so far, but it's a day in, day out business."
The young defenders will be put to the test on Thursday night when the Oilers take on the Lightning, but fortunately for Edmonton, it's a game on the schedule that is easy to get up for.
"I think both of those players are excited about playing in this game tonight. You don't get to the heights that the Tampa Bay Lightning have gotten to three Stanley Cup finals in the last three years without being a preeminent team in the league," Woodcroft said. "I think when you see some of the names coming into our building tonight, that gets everybody's attention. There's a big two points up for grabs and we're going to give our best effort."
-- Michael Arcuri, EdmontonOilers.com

PREVIEW

OILERS vs. LIGHTNING
WATCH: 7:00 p.m. MT; televised on Sportsnet West
Oilers Team Scope
The Edmonton Oilers look build on a consistent stretch of play to extend their four-game win streak on Thursday against one of the Eastern Conference's perennial contenders in the Tampa Bay Lightning.
All four of Edmonton's consecutive victories have come against Pacific Division opponents, helping pull the Oilers back into contention for top spot with only five points separating them in the standings from the division-leading Vegas Golden Knights.
"Certainly we've said for a long time now that we're looking for consistency, and we've laid down a few good games in a row here," Connor McDavid said on Wednesday. "A really good test tomorrow night and another chance for us to continue to build our game and grow our game."
The Oilers scored five even-strength goals through five different players on Tuesday in a 5-2 victory over the Kraken that saw McDavid, Derek Ryan, Warren Foegele, Zach Hyman and Ryan McLeod mesh the twine and Evander Kane make his return to the lineup from a 31-game absence with a cut wrist he sustained back in November against the Lightning.
"It's huge," Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said. "I think obviously when you get contributions from everybody -- D-men and forwards all up and down the lineup -- it definitely gives you some confidence and helps in those tight games too. I think last night we had everybody going, everybody on the same page, and it was definitely a big win coming home after a good road trip."

Lightning Team Scope
Edmonton isn't the only one with a streak on the line.
The Lightning come into Rogers Place on Thursday for the second of a back-to-back having won five games in a row after Steven Stamkos recorded his 500th NHL goal as part of his 11th-career hat-trick on Wednesday in a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.
Tampa jumped out to a 4-0 lead thanks to Stamkos' milestone marker 4:40 into the first period. Vancouver scored twice on the power play in the third to make things interesting before Stamkos completed his hat trick into the empty Canucks cage in the final two minutes of regulation.
Netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy is expected to get the start in goal for the Bolts after Brian Elliott made 37 saves in the victory over Vancouver. Vasilevskiy has won four straight starts and has 249 wins in 396 career games (386 starts), needing one to join Ken Dryden as the only goalies in NHL history with 250+ wins in their first 400 career games.
Tampa been one of the best teams in the NHL against Western Conference opponents this season with a 13-4-0 record and a +20 goal differential (65-45).

By The Numbers
The Oilers have an NHL-high four skaters with 20+ goals this season in McDavid (38), Draisaitl (26), Hyman (21) & Nugent-Hopkins (21)... The big four have combined to score an NHL-high 62.7 percent of all team goals this season (106-of-169)... The Lightning have just one player with 20+ goals this season (Brayden Point - 25)... Jay Woodcroft is set to coach his 85th career NHL game... His 51 wins are already the most in Oilers history through a head coach's first 85 games with the team...
This matchup features the two most elite power plays in the NHL, but the Lightning lead on the penalty kill (EDM - 74.3 (25th) vs. TBL - 81.8 (9th))... The Lightning are 11-for-28 on the power play in their last 10 games (39.3 percent)... The Oilers & Lightning's power plays this season would both rank Top 10 in a single season all-time (tracked since 1977-78).... The Oilers have scored an NHL-high 51 power-play goals, but their 43 power-play goals allowed are tied for the third-most in the NHL... The Oilers are 12-2-2 this season when holding opponents without a power-play goal...
The Lightning are the only team without an OT loss in the NHL this season (6-1, 5-0 in overtime)... The Draisaitl/McDavid connection has been the most dynamic this season, with Kucherov/Point coming in right behind them in most goals combined between teammates (Draisaitl/McDavid - 43 vs. Kucherov/Point - 34)... McDavid has 12 points during his current eight-game point streak (6 G, 6 A)... That is tied for the longest active point streak in the NHL (Vince Dunn & Bo Horvat)... Point has 19 goals in his last 23 games after scoring six in his first 19 games of the season...
Video: RAW | Jay Woodcroft 01.18.23
Injury Report
OILERS - Oscar Klefbom (shoulder) is on IR; Mike Smith (undisclosed) is on IR; Evander Kane (wrist) is on IR;
Ryan Murray
(undisclosed) is on IR;
Kailer Yamamoto
(undisclosed) is on IR.
LIGHTNING - Nick Perbix (undisclosed) is day-to-day; Rudolfs Balcers (upper body) is on IR; Brent Seabrook (shoulder/hips) is on IR.
-- Jamie Umbach, EdmontonOilers.com