ilers: @ :yotes: PreviewLast 10 -- Edmonton 3-7-0; Phoenix 6-3-1
Season series: -- It's the last of the four meetings between the teams. Each team has won once in regulation, and the Coyotes won 5-4 in a shootout at Edmonton on Jan. 5. Phoenix won 6-1 on Feb. 5 in the Oilers' last visit to Jobing.com Arena.
Big story: -- The Coyotes looked like a road-weary team in Vancouver on Tuesday in a lackluster 4-1 loss, but showed a little more spark in a 2-1 loss at Calgary the next night. Getting back-to-back days off should give some life to a team that has spent most of the last three weeks on the road -- and one that hasn't been nearly as sharp over the last week or so since clinching the franchise's first playoff berth since 2002. They're also catching the Oilers in the second game of a back-to-back at the end of a four-game trip.
Who's hot?: -- Lee Stempniak had the Coyotes' lone goal on Wednesday, completing a 13-goal month of March in the 14 games after he came to Phoenix from Toronto at the trade deadline.
Injury report: -- Edmonton forward Gilbert Brule sustained a right ankle sprain in the first period and didn't return. He was on crutches after the game. Sam Gagner has missed the Oilers' last four games with a hip injury. … Coyotes center Robert Lang is still out with a lower-body injury that has cost him nearly a month.
Stat pack: -- Edmonton has dropped four straight overall and nine in a row on the road. … Phoenix's average goals per game has risen from 2.53 to 2.71 since Stempniak's arrival 4 1/2 weeks ago.
