Need To Know: Bruins vs. Oilers

The Bruins look to close the five game road trip strong with a win tonight in Edmonton.

Oliver Wahlstrom will make his Bruins debut tonight replacing Cole Koepke on the third line to skate with Charlie Coyle and Trent Frederic.
"I'm very excited," said Wahlstrom. "It's a dream play to play for the Bruins...it's been nice to get to know these guys and I'm super excited."
When it comes to his play tonight, Wahlstrom plans to keep it simple. "Just to keep things simple early on, because I'm going to be pretty amped up and, you know, playing pretty skilled players and some new guys so I think, you know, the first couple of games simple and when I do that things will open up for sure."

Leon Draisaitl leads the Oilers with 23 goals and 24 assists for 47 points.
Followed closely by Connor McDavid who checks in with 14 goals and 30 assists for 44 points.
After a 5 games win streak, the Oilers fell to the Panthers on Monday.
This will be the first time the Bruins and Oilers have met this season.

Thursday's Projected Lineup:

FORWARDS

Brad Marchand – Elias Lindholm – Justin Brazeau

Morgan Geekie – Pavel Zacha – David Pastrnak

Trent Frederic – Charlie Coyle – Oliver Wahlstrom

Johnny Beecher – Mark Kastelic – Marc McLaughlin

DEFENSEMEN

Nikita Zadorov – Charlie McAvoy

Jordan Oesterle – Brandon Carlo

Mason Lohrei – Andrew Peeke

GOALIES

Jeremy Swayman

Joonas Korpisalo

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