Projected Lineups for Utah HC vs Oilers – 3/18/25

The Utah Hockey Club takes on the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

UTAH (30-26-11) at OILERS (39-24-4)

9 p.m. ET; TVAS, SN1, ESPN

Utah projected lineup

Clayton Keller — Alex Kerfoot – Nick Schmaltz
Logan Cooley — Barrett Hayton — Dylan Guenther
Lawson Crouse — Jack McBain — Josh Doan
Michael Carcone — Kevin Stenlund — Nick Bjugstad

Mikhail Sergachev — John Marino
Olli Maatta — Sean Durzi
Ian Cole — Michael Kesselring

Karel Vejmelka
Jaxson Stauber

Scratched: Nick DeSimone, Matias Maccelli

Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body), Liam O’Brien (lower body)

Status Report:

Utah is going with the same lineup from its 3-1 win at the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday. 

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Oilers projected lineup

Jeff Skinner — Connor McDavid — Zach Hyman
Corey Perry — Leon Draisaitl — Connor Brown
Vasily Podkolzin — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — Viktor Arvidsson
Mattias Janmark — Adam Henrique — Kasperi Kapanen

Mattias Ekholm — Evan Bouchard
Darnell Nurse — Jake Walman
Brett Kulak — Ty Emberson

Calvin Pickard
Stuart Skinner

Scratched: Max Jones, Troy Stecher

Injured: Trent Frederic (ankle), Evander Kane (hip, knee), John Klingberg (undisclosed), Alec Regula (knee)

Status report:

Jeff Skinner will shift from the fourth line to the first line in place of Henrique … Kapanen will play in place of Jones, a forward. … Ekholm will play after missing six games because of a lower-body injury. His return moves Walman to the second defense pair.

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