Projected Lineups for the Utah HC vs Oilers – 12/31/24

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

UTAH (16-14-6) at OILERS (21-12-3)

9 p.m. ET; SN1, SNE, SNO, Utah16

Utah projected lineup

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

Mikhail Sergachev — Olli Maatta
Ian Cole — Michael Kesselring
Juuso Valimaki — Vladislav Kolyachonok

Jaxson Stauber
Karel Vejmelka

Scratched: Dakota Mermis, Liam O’Brien

Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body)

Status report

Utah, which did not hold a morning skate, is expected to dress the same 18 skaters used in a 5-2 loss at the Seattle Kraken on Monday. 

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Oilers projected lineup

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

Mattias Ekholm — Evan Bouchard
Darnell Nurse — Troy Stecher
Brett Kulak — Ty Emberson

Stuart Skinner
Calvin Pickard

Scratched: Derek Ryan

Injured: None

Status report

The Oilers held an optional morning skate and will shuffle their lines in order to accommodate Jeff Skinner coming in for Ryan, a center … Janmark is expected to move to fourth-line center from third-line left wing.

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