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Monday, January 4, 2016

9:00 PM ET

HURRICANES (16-17-6) at OILERS (16-21-3)

TV: FS-CR, SNW

Season series: The Carolina Hurricanes will try for a two-game sweep of the Edmonton Oilers. Cam Ward made 30 saves in Carolina's 4-1 victory at PNC Arena on Nov. 25. Jordan Staal, Elias Lindholm, Jeff Skinner and Andrej Nestrasil had goals for the Hurricanes after Edmonton's Benoit Pouliot opened the scoring.

Hurricanes team scope: Carolina recalled forward Brock McGinn from Charlotte of the American Hockey League on Sunday. McGinn had two goals and three points in 14 games during an earlier stint with the Hurricanes this season. He'll likely take the place of Phillip Di Giuseppe, who left the Hurricanes' 2-1 overtime loss to the Nashville Predators on Saturday because of an upper-body injury and went through the NHL's concussion protocol. Coach Bill Peters hasn't decided on a goaltender; Eddie Lack is 1-0-1 and has allowed three goals in his past two games; Ward has surrendered eight goals in his past five starts.

Oilers team scope: Edmonton is 1-2-0 entering the second half of a six-game homestand; the final three games are against Eastern Conference teams. The good news for the Oilers is the second line of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins between Pouliot and Jordan Eberle is coming alive; it generated five points and 11 shots on goal in a 4-3 shootout win against the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday. "Our line has to keep producing and since the (Christmas) break, we've done a better job of that," said Nugent-Hopkins, who got the deciding goal in the tiebreaker.

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