Arizona center Sam Gagner will face his former Edmonton club for the first time on Wednesday night as the Coyotes try to extend their point streak over the struggling Oilers. Jaron Brown Seahawks Jersey . Gagner was never able to live up to the expectations of being the sixth overall pick of the 2007 draft by Edmonton. He never reached the 20-goal mark in seven seasons with the club and never topped the 49 points he had as a rookie in 2007-08. In all, the 25-year-old had 101 goals and 295 points in 481 games with the Oilers before getting dealt to Tampa Bay on June 29. The Lightning then flipped him the same day, along with B.J. Crombeen, for Arizona for a sixth- round pick. Theres a lot of great guys over there. But its one of those things -- I have friends on other teams (too). Once the puck drops, you stop becoming friends and its all about winning the hockey game. You get competitive and it all goes out the window, said Gagner. I dont think its going to be hard for me once the puck drops. Just focus on playing hockey and helping the team get two points. The Coyotes have had no problems getting points against the Oilers. They are 10-0-3 in the last 13 meetings, having not lost in regulation in this series since Jan. 25, 2011. Arizona has won eight of its last 11 as the host against Edmonton and is 1-1-0 on the young season. The Coyotes lost their opener 6-2 against Winnipeg on Thursday, but bested the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 in overtime on Monday. Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored a power-play goal with 14 seconds left in overtime, driving a shot from the right wing past a screened Jonathan Quick. Antoine Vermette assisted on the game-winning tally and also scored a goal, Mikkel Boedker notched a goal and Keith Yandle assisted on all three tallies. We were much more poised with the puck tonight than we were the other night, said Phoenix head coach Dave Tippett. Especially moving out of our zone and into the neutral zone, things were much better. Devan Dubnyk stopped 24-of-26 shots for his first win of the season. Tippett, though, is expected to go back to Mike Smith in net tonight in the third contest of a four-game homestand. Smith, who yielded all six goals on 27 shots in the loss to the Jets, is 8-1-1 lifetime versus the Oilers with a 2.58 goals against average and .915 save percentage. Edmonton, meanwhile, is winless through its first three games of the season after getting routed 6-1 by Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The Oilers were nearly shut out until Matt Hendricks scored with 21 seconds to play. The Kings scored twice in the games first five minutes and led 3-0 after the first. I thought we came out cautious, had some bad luck during the game, but it just goes to reconfirm that every moment in the game is an important one, said Edmonton head coach Dallas Eakins. Viktor Fasth got the start in net for Edmonton and left with a groin injury in the first period after allowing three goals on 11 shots. Ex-King Ben Scrivens stopped 12-of-15 shots in relief. Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse, a 2013 first-round pick, and forward Bogdan Yakimov made their NHL debuts as forwards Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent- Hopkins were out with undisclosed injuries and defenseman Jeff Petry was scratched. Edmonton has opened with three straight losses (0-2-1) for the first time since dropping its first four games in 1995-96. Scrivens is likely to start tonight and is 1-1-1 with a 2.22 GAA and .926 save percentage in three career games against the Coyotes. Rashaad Penny Jersey . Tensions rose in the first period when Penguins defenceman Brooks Orpik hit Bruins forward Loui Eriksson with what appeared to be a clean hit. Barkevious Mingo Jersey .Ryan Anderson had 14 points for the Pelicans, who trailed 78-63 after three periods before trimming the deficit to 86-83. Jrue Holiday had 13 points and Eric Gordon added 12 for New Orleans.Mike Scott and Jeff Teague each had 11 points for Atlanta. http://www.footballseahawksfanatics.com/customized/ . - The Denver Broncos kept rookie wide receiver Tavarres King from joining the Green Bay Packers by promoting him to their active roster Tuesday.PHOENIX - Put Bill Belichick behind a microphone and hes C-SPAN — minus the information.Pete Carroll is more like a Lifetime movie. Or, as defensive lineman Michael Bennett puts it, He has that Benjamin Button effect on everyone.The Super Bowl coaches approach their obligations to the public and media from opposite ends. Belichick, coaching for his fourth championship in New England, is dry, offers little to no insight and rarely makes anyone laugh. Carroll, looking for his second straight title, is a high-fiving, fist-bumping extrovert who started one of his news conferences this week with a welcoming, Whats up?!?Different styles have produced similar results, though.Belichick is making his sixth Super Bowl appearance as a head coach and his Patriots are as close as there is to a dynasty in the current NFL. Carrolls team is being mentioned as a possible dynasty, as well, and that notion will only gain steam if the Seahawks win Sunday and become the first back-to-back champions since, who else?, New England in 2003-04.Dissimilar as they are, they have both built their teams on a foundation of unflinching candour inside their locker and meeting rooms — a quality Carroll brings to some of his public speaking, but one that Belichick eschews.What you see on TV is what you get, pretty much, from the two, said Patriots cornerback Brandon Browner, who previously played for Carroll in Seattle. They have similarities too, though. Their football IQ is way up there. They are so different, but at the same time theyre the same. Thats why they both have succeeded at this level.Over his 15 years in New England, Belichick has made it increasingly difficult for anyone outside of Patriots Nation to love him. Nobody likes a boring cheater, and that is how hes sometimes portrayed. Its all summed up in his handling of the controversy of Super Bowl week — Deflategate — a subject he has refused to talk about since Saturday, when he held a news conference to deny wrongdoing and announce he was moving on. Were just focused on Seattle this week, hes said, repeating some version of that time and again.A much fuller picture of the coach was painted in the 2013 NFL Network production A Football Life, which gave an inside and genuinely absorbing look at the coach — miked up and behind the scenes during what turned out to be a disappointing 2009 season.Hard not to get choked up about it, Belichick said, barely controlling the tears as he toured his old stomping grounds, the old Giants Stadium, where he won his first two Super Bowl rings as New Yorks defensive co--ordinator. Dontae Johnson Jersey. I spent a lot of hours in that room.One trait his old boss, Bill Parcells, turned into an art was figuring out how to get the most from each of his players by treating them individually.Its not a trait Belichick shares, at least in the sense that no one seems to get the Superstar Treatment in New England: High-priced cornerback Darrelle Revis got sent home one day for being late for a meeting. Jonas Gray ran for 201 yards in a win against Indianapolis but has barely been heard from again after showing up late for a meeting.Hes done a good job of treating everybody fairly, treating everybody the same, said Patriots linebacker Rob Ninkovich. If something goes wrong, he makes sure we know about it. Its all about knowing how to get the best out of everybody.Carroll does the same thing — just differently.Quirky as they come, he once said a book that guided many of his core philosophies was, The Inner Game of Tennis, a 1974 self-help manuscript by W. Timothy Callwey that is about finding the state of relaxed concentration that helps you play your best.Its also about tennis, but the stuff really resonated, Carroll said in an interview while he was coaching Southern California.In keeping with the touchy-feely theme, he has repeatedly made it clear this week that he respects the individuality of his players — from Richard Sherman, who is willing to speak on just about everything, to Marshawn Lynch, who doesnt want to talk about anything.The coachs willingness to bend, however, does not mean he deviates from the consistent routine he established when he came to Seattle after nine years at USC. Wednesdays are Competition Wednesdays. Thursdays are Turnover Thursdays. And so on.Hes got a philosophy he stays true to, said offensive line coach Tom Cable. For a lot of us whove coached a long time, weve been around a lot of great teachers, but their philosophies can go up and down. For him, hes the way he is every day.Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who hired Carroll back in 1997, then Belichick in 2000, called his former coach, pretty special to be around. A lot of fun.He feels he set Carroll back by not giving him the full control he wanted, and the owner adjusted his style when he made the next hire.Everyone benefited: Belichick and the Patriots — and Carroll and Seattle.Theres no big mystery to all this coaching success, Belichick insists.Its about players making the plays that your team needs to win, he said. 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