{"id":15253,"date":"2023-12-12T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/?p=15253"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:26:12","slug":"preview-blackhawks-travel-to-edmonton-to-face-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/preview-blackhawks-travel-to-edmonton-to-face-oilers\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Blackhawks Travel to Edmonton to Face Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RECAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite outshooting Washington 35-27 in the game, the Blackhawks dropped a 4-2 decision to the Capitals on Sunday evening at the United Center &#8230; Connor Bedard recorded two assists and now leads the team with 12 assists on the year &#8230; Philipp Kurashev also notched two points (1G, 1A) &#8230; Connor Murphy scored his first goal of the season &#8230; Seth Jones chipped in an assist and ranks second among Chicago skaters with 11 helpers this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VS. EDMONTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks are 16-9-2 in their last 27 games against the Oilers since 2013-14 &#8230; Forward Nick Foligno has 10 points (5G, 5A) in 24 career games against Edmonton, including a goal in his last trip to Rogers Place on Feb. 27 &#8230; During their last meeting on Jan. 28, Taylor Raddysh posted two points (1G, 1A), while Jason Dickinson also found the back of the net &#8230; Philipp Kurashev added one assist during a 7-3 loss to the Oilers at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BED-ZZZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks forward Connor Bedard posted two assists on Sunday against Washington for this third multi-point game of the season, which shares second among all rookie skaters &#8230; He continues to lead all NHL first years with 11 goals and 23 points in 27 games this season &#8230; He also shares first among all league rookies with 12 helpers &#8230; Bedard\u2019s 0.85 points per game lead all rookies who have appeared in two or more games during the 2023-24 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHIL-IN\u2019 IT UP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philipp Kurashev registered two points (1G, 1A) on Sunday evening and now has three points (2G, 1A) over his last three games &#8230; He is just three goals shy of his single- season career high of nine goals (2022-23) &#8230; Kurashev\u2019s 0.76 points per game also ranks second among all Chicago skaters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MURPH N TURF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks defenseman Connor Murphy suited up in his 400th game as a Blackhawk on Sunday and buried his first goal of the season &#8230; He is the 62nd player in team history to appear in 400 games with the club &#8230; On Sunday, Murphy also tallied two blocked shots and continues to lead all Blackhawks\u2019 skaters with 69 blocked shots this season.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blackhawks\/news\/preview-blackhawks-travel-to-edmonton-to-face-oilers\" rel=\"noopener\">Originally Appeared Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECAP Despite outshooting Washington 35-27 in the game, the Blackhawks dropped a 4-2 decision to the Capitals on Sunday evening at the United Center &#8230; Connor Bedard recorded two assists&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5015],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15254,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions\/15254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}