Edmonton Oilers prepare to confront red-hot Kaprizov and Minnesota Wild on Thursday

The Edmonton Oilers (10-8-2) volition look a pugnacious matchup astatine Rogers Place connected Thursday nighttime erstwhile the hockey nine takes connected the surging Minnesota Wild (12-3-3) led by guardant Kirill Kaprizov, who is presently connected gait to people astir 150 points this season.

Kaprizov is riding a six-game constituent streak that has seen him enactment up 12 points since it began.

The Oilers are returning to Edmonton for a two-game homestand aft completing a three-game roadworthy travel that ended with a 5-2 triumph implicit the Ottawa Senators connected Tuesday.

In their past 10 games, the Oilers person a 6-3-1 grounds and person scored an mean of 3.3 goals per crippled successful that span. The Wild person an adjacent amended grounds implicit their past 10 games, going 7-2-1. In that clip framework they person averaged 3.2 goals per game.

So acold this season, the Wild person fixed up an mean of conscionable 2.33 goals per game, tying them for the NHL pb successful that statistical category.

The Oilers person been without winger Viktor Arvidsson since Nov. 12 due to the fact that of injury, and successful Tuesday’s crippled chap winger Zach Hyman did not play successful the 3rd play aft taking a deed earlier successful the game. It was not wide arsenic of Thursday greeting if either guardant volition play against the Wild.

If Arvidsson and Hyman bash not play, it is imaginable recently acquired guardant Kasperi Kapanen could marque his debut with Edmonton. On Tuesday, the Oilers announced the nine had claimed the 28-year-old seasoned disconnected waivers from the St. Louis Blues.

The Oilers person besides been without defenceman Darnell Nurse since Saturday’s overtime nonaccomplishment to the Toronto Maple Leafs. He sustained an upper-body wounded aft taking a deed from Leafs guardant Ryan Reaves.

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Oilers caput manager Kris Knoblauch aboriginal said helium believes Nurse would apt beryllium retired of the lineup for “five to 10 days.”

On Wednesday night, the Oilers announced the squad had loaned defenceman Josh Brown backmost to the American Hockey League’s Bakersfield Condors.

–With files from The Associated Press