Edmonton brings a three-game win streak and the league’s No. 3 power index into a matchup with a Devils team that has won four of its last five.
There are early standings stakes at Prudential Center: Edmonton is 11-2-2 with 24 points, while New Jersey is 9-5-0 with 18. The Oilers have won three straight and rank third in the power index at 85.5; the Devils are sixth at 75.6 and have won four of their last five. Edmonton’s Connor McDavid leads with 39 points in 15 games, and Leon Draisaitl has 27; Jack Hughes tops New Jersey with 16 points in 14 games. The key is whether the Devils can contain Edmonton’s top-six production of 8.73 points per game and make their own attack count against an Oilers team with a plus-20 goal differential, compared with New Jersey’s plus-eight.