Have the Edmonton Oilers really had 7.52 billion forward line combinations so far this regular season? Article content

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In fact, as many of you aware now due to a clever Sportsnet hockey graphic broadcast at the start of Thursday night’s Oilers-Habs game, Edmonton has used 21 different line combinations to start games this year.

Of course, Edmonton’s line combos for the Montreal game didn’t last past the second period, and Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch has now said he’ll go with the line combos he used for the third period of the Montreal game in Edmonton’s next match on Saturday against the Kraken of Seattle.

Those new line combos are:

Howard – McDavid – Mangiapane

Savoie – Draisaitl – Podkolzin

Henrique – RNH – Roslov

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