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From the Branches: Sparks shuts out the Oilers, banishes them back to land of wind and ghosts

Okay, okay, that's the last time we use that line. In this post.

Garrett Sparks gets a shutout in his NHL debut. A seventh round pick doesn't get the highest of hopes, but he put the work in, climbed the hockey ladder from Junior to the A to the E back to the A then to the big show. If he plays Wednesday, which Babcock has said he will if Reiner can't, vs the Jets he'll have a bigger challenge in front of him.

The Oilers, as stacked as they are with top lottery picks, are a bad hockey team.