The Hurricanes play the Oilers at Rogers Place. Puck drops at 9 p.m. ET.
Carolina defends the Stanley Cup. Edmonton is the highest-scoring team in the NHL.
Connor McDavid leads the league with 26 points. He reached 20 assists faster than anyone in NHL history.
Leon Draisaitl has 16 points in 9 games. Edmonton scores 4.56 goals per game, best in the league.
Sebastian Aho leads the Canes with 14 points. He has 27 points in 18 career games against Edmonton.
Nikolaj Ehlers has 5 points in his last 4 games. He needs one more point for 600 in his career.
Carolina is 8-2-1 and first in the Metro. Edmonton is 7-1-1 and second in the Pacific.
Edmonton's power play is second in the NHL at 31 percent. Carolina's penalty kill is fourth at 89.2 percent.
Seth Jarvis may return for Carolina. Edmonton is without Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Frederik Andersen.
Brandon Bussi starts for Carolina. Devon Levi starts for Edmonton at 5-1-0 this season.
Carolina is 10-4-2 in the last 16 meetings. Last season the teams split the series.
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