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Coming off their first road win of the season, the Detroit Red Wings will play in Edmonton in an attempt to add another road win.
Edmonton, who had been producing tons of offense this season, has been shut out in their last two games. Detroit has averaged 45 shots on goal in the last two games and is looking to continue to take large numbers of shots Thursday.
Nikolai Khabibulin, who has historically struggled against the Wings, will likely start Thursday’s game for the Oilers. Jimmy Howard, who is coming off two strong performances, will start for Detroit. Detroit coach Mike Babcock stated that it had been his plan to start Howard all along and was not a response to the bad play of Chris Osgood as of late.
If Detroit plays in Edmonton like they did in Vancouver and Colorado, they will have a good shot at winning. However, they will need to make sure that Edmonton cannot break out into the offense that highlighted the beginning of their season and led to their 6-2-1 start.
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