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Saturday, kick-off 14:30Rugby Park, KilmarnockScotland will be keen to end their November Test campaign with a comprehensive victory over one of rugbys minnows. Complacency hasnt been a trait of Vern Cotters team and they will look to start with the intensity they showed in defeat to Australia and in patches of their victory over Argentina last week.But there is a warning. Georgia will be buoyed having defeated Samoa 20-16 last week in Tbilisi. They are a team fighting for respect in rugby and this will be just their fourth Test against a tier one nation, outside of the World Cup, in 13 years. Scotland follow Ireland (2014), Argentina (2013) and Italy (2003) in hosting the Eastern Europeans.Georgia come into the game brimming with confidence with just one defeat since last years World Cup. They narrowly lost to Japan and during the summer they defeated Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. A big performance is expected to prove that they could belong in an expanded Six Nations.Team newsScotland have largely kept faith with the side that overcame Los Pumas last week, with Huw Jones, missing through injury, replaced by Mark Bennett at centre. Richie Gray returns at lock having missed last weeks game through concussion. The other three changes see Ross Ford come in at hooker and Rob Harley and Ryan Wilson come into the back row.Georgia make just one change with Giorgi Aptsiauri coming in on the wing to replace Giorgi Koshadze while there is one positional switches with Tamaz Mchedlidze moving from the wing to centre.Scotland: Hogg, Maitland, Bennett, Dunbar, Seymour, Russell, Laidlaw; Dell, Ford, Fagerson, R Gray, J Gray, Harley, Watson, Wilson.Replacements: Brown, Allan, Low, Gilchrist, Barclay, Price, Horne, Hughes.Georgia: Kvirikashvili, Aptsiauri, Sharikadze, Mchedlidze, Todua, Malaguradze, Lobzhanidze; Nariashvili, Bregvadze, Chilachava, Mikautadze, Nemsadze, Kolelishvili, Gorgodze, Bitsadze.Replacements: Alkhazashvili, Asieshvili, Kubriashvili, Lomidze, Tkhilaishvili, Begadze, Tsiklauri, Sutiashvili.Key head-to-headBoth of Georgias tries last week came courtesy of their pack, which destroyed the Samoan scrum. They will hope that can be a launchpad for another upset in Scotland. Front row Levan Chilachava was immense for Georgia last week and made a 20-metre break which should have resulted in a try.He, and the rest of the Georgia pack will be up against it against a Scottish side led by Lions candidate Jonny Gray. Their win over Argentina was what they needed as preparation for this weekend. It will be a challenge, but one which the Scottish pack should overcome.Key stats*This will be the second time the two sides have met, with Scotland beating Georgia 15-6 at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.*Georgia, who are 12th in the World Rugby rankings, have never beaten tier one opposition, playing 15 Tests and losing them all.Weather It will be cold and cloudy at Rugby Park on Saturday, but the fog should make way for sunshine by kick-off.PredictionScotland should have far too much fire power to down the Georgian minnows. While victories over the Pacific Island teams prove theyre improving, competing with a Southern Hemisphere powerhouse is still some way off. 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There wont be a faster line in the tournament than that one, which features the top two picks from the 2015 draft in Eichel and McDavid, two guys who will be compared to each other for the rest of their careers.It took a week for the pairing to happen during World Cup training camp, which only built the anticipation more. It was almost as if Chuck Daly had waited five days to put Larry Bird and Magic Johnson on the court together with the Dream Team in 1992.If McLellan sticks with it, this line will make its debut in Sundays pre-tournament game (6 p.m. ET, ESPN3) against Team Europe.Whatever works and whoever we find chemistry with, thats ultimately what will happen, McDavid said. If its us three, then perfect. Who better than to play with [than] those two?That McLellan was shuffling the lines at all shows just how high the expectations are for this group from its coaching staff. They shut out Team Europe in a game that showcased their speed and skill on both ends of the ice and, still, McLellan started from scratch with the lines in the next practice.He wasnt thrilled that the speed tapered off as the game went on. He wants to see more shots, along with second and third attempts on scoring. In short, he thinks this group has a lot more to give than what he saw in one game.Weve got to find out if theres better combinatioons before the tournament starts, McLellan said.dddddddddddd We didnt reach our ceiling last night. We didnt come close in a lot of avenues.Thus, the new line combinations were born.In putting McDavid, Eichel and Gaudreau together, Team North America is showing off its speed a bit -- but what makes those three potentially great is a high-end hockey sense. They can all make plays at high speed, so its not just speed for the sake of speed.Defenseman Aaron Ekblad explained it this way: They have a ton of speed, but theres no speed without smooth play. Thats what they do that might set them apart from other players.What exactly does he mean by smooth play?Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, Ekblad said. You dont want to go too slow and not do anything, but you want to go slow enough that its smooth. Hard, crisp passes are fast. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.McLellan also pleased the fans, especially those in Halifax, by reuniting?Jonathan Drouin and MacKinnon on a line with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins at center. Drouin and MacKinnon were junior teammates with the Halifax Mooseheads in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where they combined for 180 regular-season points in 2012-13. In the playoffs that season, Drouin had 35 points in 17 games.While watching his former teammate in the playoffs with the?Tampa Bay Lightning?last spring, MacKinnon saw a guy making the same plays he did against junior teammates and doing it against great NHL players.Needless to say, theyre excited about the opportunity to give it a go together in the World Cup. As are the other three.You could put a list of names in a hat and pull them out randomly and it would be fun to play with anyone, Gaudreau said. These kind of tournaments give us the opportunity to play with some of the best players in the world. All of us young guys, were having a pretty good time here. ' ' '