Projected Lineups for Canucks vs Oilers – Game 4 – Hockey Writers – Projected Lineups

The Vancouver Canucks will face the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place tonight in Game 4 of their second round series. Here are the projected/expected lineups, taken from NHL.com staff writers, independent contacts, and others.

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(1P) CANUCKS at (2P) OILERS

Western Conference Second Round, Game 4

9:30 pm CBC, TVAS, SN, ESPN

The Canucks lead the 7 series 2-1

The Canucks propose a plan

Pius Suter – JT Miller – Brock Boeser

Ilya Mikheyev – Elias Pettersson – Linus Karlsson

Dakota Joshua – Elias Lindholm – Conor Garland

Nils Aman – Teddy Blueger – Sam Lafferty

Quinn Hughes – Filip Hronek

Nikita Zadorov – Tyler Myers

Ian Cole – Noah Juulsen

Arturs Silovs

Casey DeSmith

Scratched: Mark Friedman, Phil Di Giuseppe, Christian Wolanin

Injured: Thatcher Demko (undisclosed), Nils Hoglander (undisclosed)

Suspended: Carson Soucy

Status Report

• Juulsen joins the Canucks roster for Soucy, a defenseman, who has been suspended for one game for checking McDavid after the last dunk in Game 3.

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The Oilers propose a plan

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – Connor McDavid – Zach Hyman

Dylan Holloway – Leon Draisaitl – Evander Kane

Warren Foegele – Ryan McLeod – Corey Perry

Mattias Janmark – Derek Ryan

Mattias Ekholm – Evan Bouchard

Darnell Nurse – Vincent Desharnais

Brett Kulak – Cody Ceci

Philip Broberg

Calvin Pickard

Stuart Skinner

Scratched: Connor Brown, Sam Carrick, Sam Gagner, Troy Stecher

Injured: Adam Henrique (lower body)

Status report

• Pickard will make his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut after making three saves in 16:21 of Game 3 after replacing Skinner.
• Broberg will step in as the seventh defenseman if the Oilers switch to an 11-7 lineup and Brown, a forward, is scratched.
• Holloway will move from the third line to the second line to play on Draisaitl’s wing, but Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch did not rule out playing Draisaitl on top of McDavid if the situation arose.

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