This in from Tony Brar of Edmonton Oilers TV, the line-up for tonight’s game against the Mammoth of Utah, with rookie Noah Philp back in the line-up but the forward lines otherwise staying the same as they were in the Vancouver game.

EDM lines & pairings — Morning Skate vs. UTA:

1. Knoblauch is going with a radical new approach: sticking with essentially the same forward lines as the team had against Vancouver, the one exception being the insertion of Noah Philp.

2. Knoblauch has been the NHL’s blender king with his forward lines in the first ten games. As we noted earlier, hockey stats analyst Brad McPherson, one stat found one stat the best describes Knoblauch’s constant mixing of the lines so far this 2025-26 season.

Said McPherson on-line, “There are 106 forward lines (in the

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