The Edmonton Oilers will start Calvin Pickard in net Tuesday for Game 4 of their playoff series with the Vancouver Canucks.
The 32-year-old journeyman netminder replaces Stuart Skinner, who was pulled in the third period of Edmonton91裸聊视频檚 4-3 loss to Vancouver on Sunday after giving up four goals on 15 shots.
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Pickard is making his first start in the NHL playoffs after making 20 appearances for the Oilers in the regular season.
The six-foot-one, 206-pound goalie went 12-7-1 with a 2.45 goals-against average and a .909 save percentage.
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Pickard signed with the Oilers as a free agent in July 2022 and has spent much of his tenure with the organization playing for the Bakersfield Condors in the American Hockey League.
Originally picked 49th overall by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2010 draft, the native of Moncton, N.B., has played 139 regular-season NHL games for six different teams, including one for the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 2017-18 campaign.
Making it to a playoff start hasn91裸聊视频檛 been easy, Pickard admitted.
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Edmonton trails Vancouver 2-1 in the best-of-seven second-round Western Conference playoff series.
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