Edmonton Oilers @ Chicago Blackhawks Lines And Pairings

A win in Chicago would end Edmonton's four game road trip at 2-2.  Although the Blackhawks are the host favourites, there is one key cog that could help the Oilers emerge victorious:

Nikolai Khabibulin.

In a little more than 150 minutes of play, Khabibulin has allowed a dozen goals.  Think Devan Dubnyk was bad? Khabibulin's been worse.  In Chicago, being an adequate 'tender can get covered up a bit if your team scores six goals.  The Oilers have had an issue scoring half that number.

Crawford was the man for Chicago in last night's 5-2 victory over Dallas.  We'll see if he gets the green on consecutive nights.

The Edmonton Oilers

Taylor Hall - Sam Gagner - Ales Hemsky

David Perron - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Jordan Eberle

Jesse Joensuu - Boyd Gordon - Ryan Jones

Ryan Smyth - Mark Arcobello - Nail Yakupov

Andrew Ference - Jeff Petry

Nick Schultz - Taylor Fedun

Anton Belov - Philip Larsen

Devan Dubnyk

The Chicago Blackhawks

Patrick Sharp - Jonathan Toews - Marian Hossa

Brandon Saad - Brandon Pirri - Patrick Kane

Bryan Bickell - Andrew Shaw - Sheldon Brookbank

Brandon Bollig - Marcus Kruger - Ben Smith

Duncan Keith - Brent Seabrook

Johnny Oduya - Niklas Hjalmarsson

Nick Leddy - Michal Rozsival

Corey Crawford