EDMONTON OILERS NOTES:
DMONTON OILERS AT SAN JOSE SHARKS
8:30 p.m. MT at SAP Center
BROADCAST INFO: 630 CHED Radio, Sportsnet
22-18-3 – 47 PTS RECORD 13-22-8 – 34 PTS
Div. – 5th Conference – 8th RANK Div. – 7th Conference – 13th
1st –31.0% (49/158) POWER PLAY 20th – 20.7% (25/121)
25th – 73.3% (115/157) PENALTY KILL 2nd – 84.8% (106/125)
ALL-TIME RECORDS vs. SAN JOSE GP RECORD HOME (66) AWAY (65) GF GA
OILERS ALL-TIME vs. SAN JOSE 131 58-53-12-8 32-24-7-3 26-29-5-5 391 400
OILERS vs. SAN JOSE – 2022-23 0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0 0
QUICK FACTS
• Friday’s game will mark Edmonton’s first of four games against the Sharks this season and the first of two games in San Jose. The next time these teams will meet is March 20th in Edmonton.
• The last time these teams met was on April 28th, 2022 in Edmonton, with the Oilers winning 5-4 in overtime.
• Connor McDavid leads the Oilers with 30 career points against the Sharks and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has played in a team high 35 career games against San Jose.
LAST 10 GAMES vs. SAN JOSE
Record: 5-5-0
GF: 32 GA: 36
2021-22 4/28/22 @ EDM 5-4 W (OT)
2021-22 4/5/22 @ SJS 2-1 W (OT)
2021-22 3/24/22 @ EDM 5-2 W
2021-22 2/14/22 @ SJS 3-0 W
2019-20 2/6/20 @ EDM 6-3 L
2019-20 11/19/19 @ SJS 5-2 W
2019-20 11/12/19 @ SJS 3-6 L
2018-19 4/4/19 @ EDM 2-3 L
2018-19 2/9/19 @ EDM 2-5 L
2018-19 1/8/19 @ SJS 2-7 L
SAN JOSE SHARKS NOTES:
LAST GAME
Game 43 – 1/11 – SJS 3 at LAK 4…Alexander Bararbanov (0g, 1a) extended his career-best point streak to six games with an assist
on San Jose’s final goal of the contest and Erik Karlsson (0g, 1a) became the ninth defenseman in NHL history to record a doubledigit road assist streak (10 games), but the San Jose Sharks fell 4-3 at Los Angeles. James Reimer made 21 saves in the opening
frame, the most in a period for the Sharks this season, and Timo Meier netted his team-best 24th goal of the season, a power play
strike. Nick Bonino (1g, 0a) and Tomas Hertl (1g, 0a) also found the back of the net in the tilt.
SJ Goals: Bonino (5), Meier (24 pp), Hertl (14)
SF: 30
SA: 37
SJ PP: 1/2
SJ PK: 2/2
W: Copley
L: Reimer
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
1/6 Claimed F Mikey Eyssimont off waivers; placed D Radim Simek on IR
1/5 Recalled D Nick Cicek from the San Jose Barracuda
1/4 Assigned D Nick Cicek to the San Jose Barracuda
1/1 Recalled D Nick Cicek from the San Jose Barracuda
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT – EDMONTON OILERS
Paced by the NHL’s two leading scorers in Connor McDavid (79 points) and Leon Draisaitl (63 points), the Edmonton Oilers enter San Jose on the heels of a Wednesday win over Anaheim looking to close out their California swing on a high note. The game is the front end of a Friday-Saturday back-to-back, with the latter contest coming Saturday at Vegas. The Oilers rank fourth in the NHL at 3.56 goals per game and are tops in the league on the power play, clicking at 31.0-percent. They are eighth in the NHL with a .625 road points percentage and have scored 3.65 goals per road contest.
STORYLINES
DEFENSE TO OFFENSE…With an assist provided by Marc-Edouard Vlasic on Oskar Lindblom’s second period goal at DAL on Dec. 31, San Jose became the first NHL team to have their defensemen reach 100 points on the season. San Jose blueliners then added five points (1g, 4a) on Jan. 1, with four of the six in the game finding the score sheet, and another three helpers on Jan. 6 at Anaheim. Most recently, Sharks defensemen combined for three points against Boston on Jan. 7 with Mario Ferraro scoring a goal and Matt Benning and Vlasic adding assists, a goal from Jaycob Megna and a helper from Erik Karlsson on Tuesday and another Karlsson helper on Wednesday. The Sharks lead the league in assists (94) and points (114) from defensemen this season. Last campaign, the Sharks finished 23rd and 25th in the League with 151 points and 117 assists, respectively, from defensemen. Below is a breakdown of San Jose’s defensive scoring this season.
