Hurricanes F Gerbe out 4-6 weeks with lower-body injury

That was Edmonton’s most recent playoff game….

Peters noted the Oilers are good skaters and unsafe in transition but said, “We were heavy, we were dynamic, we were moving our feet and doing good things”. “We were outworked. It’s the determination factor that I’m looking for and I didn’t think we were a very determined team”.

“Those goals in the first and last minute (of a period) are important in our sport”, Peters said. Leon Draisaitl’s unbelievable run (10 points in five games) also ended as the Oilers came up empty with 33 shots and three power-play chances.

Nestrasil deserved that goal and had played a good game, along with linemates Joakim Nordstrom and Jordan Staal.

“It all starts with hard work”, Ward said.

Benoit Pouliot scored for the Oilers, the 100th goal of his career, and Anders Nelson stopped 23 shots.

“Faulk did a good job shooting it off my ankle, I guess”, Skinner said. Defenseman Justin Faulk takes a six-game point streak into the contest for Carolina, which rallied in the third period to gain a point in the 3-2 overtime loss at Philadelphia on Monday.

“D-men were movin’ the puck up quick and we were able to get in their end pretty quickly and smoothly”. Defenseman Ryan Murphy (concussion) will likely miss his fifth straight game and Carolina announced left wing Nathan Gerbe (lower body) will be out 4-to-6 weeks. The Carolina and Edmonton franchises played a memorable seven-game Stanley Cup Finals series 10 seasons ago, with the Hurricanes claiming the 2006 Cup….

They did Wednesday in beating the Edmonton Oilers, 4-1.

NOTES: Carolina will visit Buffalo on Friday night in the opener of a two-game road trip…. The teams meet again January 4 in Edmonton….

As we near the beginning of December, we get closer and closer to finally discovering what Cam Ward and Eric Staal’s future will hold and whether or not it will be with the Carolina Hurricanes.