Tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET, the Boston Bruins (21-8-2, 44 points) and Edmonton Oilers (11-18-3, 25 points) hit the ice at Rexall Place in Edmonton for the first of two meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Boston fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action on 98.5 The Sports Hub while Edmonton fans can do the same on 630 CHED.
Boston enters play on top of the Eastern Conference and have amounted seven wins in nine games and three straight wins while Edmonton is 14th in the Western Conference and is 2-1-1 thus far heading into the last game of a five-game homestand.
The Bruins defeated the Flames in Calgary 2-1 on Tuesday in Jarome Iginla's return to Calgary after the team erased a 1-0 deficit by scoring two goals within 98 seconds.
"As a team, all the way around, in the third period we came out and guys, each line, we got a lot better and it was fun," Iginla told NHL.com. "We were just pushing for that tying goal and we were able to get it there on the power play."
The Oilers notched their seventh win in 11 games with a 5-4 overtime win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday in a game that saw Edmonton nearly blow a 4-1 lead.
"We played extremely well in the first and for a little bit in the second, and then completely took our foot off the gas," Jordan Eberle said via NHL.com. "I don't know what it was, but we just started turning pucks over and losing battles and playing bad defensively. It's frustrating when that happens, but we found a way to win and that's the biggest thing."
Eberle (11 goals, 16 assists) is tied with Taylor Hall (12 goals, 15 assists) with 27 points to lead the Oilers and Hall has five tallies and two helpers in his last three games. David Perron has lit the lamp 12 times and added 13 assists for 25 points this season to rank third on the team in scoring.
David Krejci paces the Bruins with 25 points off of six goals and 19 assists while Milan Lucic has found the back of the net 11 times and added 13 assists for 24 points and Reilly Smith has seven tallies and 14 helpers for 21 points.
In net, Tuukka Rask has won three of his last four games for the Bruins and is the probable starter tonight. Rask is 16-7-2 with a 1.87 goals-against average and a .935 save percentage. Devan Dubnyk is probable for the Oilers and is 9-12-2 with a 3.27 GAA and a .892 save percentage.
The Bruins look for their third straight win while Edmonton looks to mount their eighth win in 12 tries when the lights come up at Rexall Place tonight in Edmonton.
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