Mike Babcock iced a lineup heavy with AHL talent Thursday night, and the Edmonton Oilers still walked away with a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks, who, in contrast, iced all of their big guns. The Oilers outworked their much more experienced opponent on the road and improved Babcock’s preseason record to 3-0.
Babcock said, “Coming in, obviously we were undermanned and obviously outmatched, but our guys played with determination.” He added that when you come in with the lineup they did, and you’re not sure what’s going to happen, it can go a number of ways. In this case, it was good to get through the opening five minutes, pick up the pace…
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