Calvin Pickard News: Drawing start Thursday

Pickard will defend the home crease against the Canadiens on Thursday, Tony Brar of Oilers TV reports.

Pickard has served as the Oilers' No. 2 netminder early in the regular season, but he'll draw his third start of the year Thursday. In his previous two outings, he went 1-1-0 with a 2.54 GAA and .865 save percentage.