The Edmonton Oilers will play their fifth pre-season game in six nights on Friday when the Winnipeg Jets roll into town.

And they’ll be doing it without any of the big guns in the lineup.

Many of the Oilers vets drew into the lineup on Wednesday night as Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Evan Bouchard, Trent Frederic, Mattias Ekholm, and Stuart Skinner drew in for their first action. The rest was there, but that’s to be expected.

Calvin Pickard will get his second start, his first having come on Tuesday night when Edmonton visited the Jets. He turned aside all eight shots he faced, with Matt Tomkins taking the second half of the game. Tonight, it’ll be Samuel Jonsson rotating in with Pickard.

And while it’s another pre-season game, it’s another chance for many young Oilers to make their mark. The top line will feature Adam Henrique centring Andrew Mangiapane and Matt Savoie, a trio who could be a potential third line for the Oilers.

The second and third lines feature players competing for other spots in the bottom-six. David Tomasek will centre Ike Howard and Kasperi Kapanen on the second line, while Noah Philp will centre Mattias Janmark and Quinn Hutson.

There are plenty of players in here who have been making noise this pre-season, and plenty still working to just shake off the rust.

The team has yet to make any significant cuts at training camp, and they’ve held onto players longer this year than last. While the team did assign David Lewandowski and Tommy Lafreniere to their respective WHL clubs earlier this week, it was after the fourth pre-season game last year when they trimmed the first bulk of the roster, re-assigning nine players.

Do we see the same this weekend?