Jacques - Horcoff - Hemsky
Penner - O'Sullivan - Comrie
Cogliano - Gagner - Reddox
MacIntyre - Brule - Stortini
Souray - Staios
Smid - Gilbert
Strudwick - Visnovsky
Khabibulin
"We want some size in our lineup."
--Pat Quinn, on making personnel decisions.
Jacques is guaranteed a top nine spot to start the regular season, Kip Brennan is likely the new knuckles, and Stone is all but guaranteed to make the team. The Oilers have hit the reset button on the learning curve.
"He hasn't shown enough in this camp to prove that he's ready to play at this level. I don't think that's criticism. I think it's an assessment of fact."
--Mike Gillis, on Cody Hodgson
Vancouver's Lineup tonight:
The forwards:
Burrows - Sedin - Sedin
Raymond - Wellwood - Bernier
Glass - Hodgson - Shirokov
Hordichuk - Rypien - Pope
The defensive pairings
Mitchell - Salo
Bieksa - Ehrhoff
O'Brien - Rome
In goal
Schneider
I expect this to be an affair full of fisticuffs.