Edmonton strikes oil with Penner, Hemsky, Gagner

told the Edmonton Journal before the game. "We're still looking for that balance. You don't always want to load up. The other night I put Penner, (Shawn) Horcoff and Hemsky together, but I don't want to stay with that as a regular line. We may have to go back to it. "We're still trying to figure out who we are and who can play with who. How can we best be a team." Penner (9 games, 7-7-14, owned in 32 percent of all Yahoo! leagues) now has five multi-point games this season, and four in his last five outings. According to the Edmonton Journal, it was the first time two Oilers had five-point efforts in the same game since Nov. 19, 1988, when Jimmy Carson and An amazing eight of 11 goals were scored by defensemen in Nashville's 6-5 overtime win at Ottawa on Thursday. That total broke the NHL single-game record for goals by... [read full story]                    

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