{"id":625325,"date":"2026-04-23T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625325\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:23:08","slug":"ducks-show-growth-resilience-to-even-series-against-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625325\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks show growth, \u2018resilience\u2019 to even series against Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; For a young team, the Anaheim Ducks showed a lot of maturity in winning Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim coughed up a two-goal, second-period lead and still managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/anaheim-ducks-edmonton-oilers-game-2-recap-april-22-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win 6-4<\/a> and tie the best-of-7 series 1-1. Game 3 is at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Friday (10 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, Victory+, truTV, TNT, KCOP-13, SN, TVAS, CBC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it comes down to skill, (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jacob-trouba-8476885\" title=\"Jacob Trouba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Trouba<\/a>) said in the past we were young and numb a little bit,\u201d Ducks goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lukas-dostal-8480843\" title=\"Lukas Dostal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cWe always have belief. We have so many comebacks in the third period this year and so we know we can just keep going. I think we\u2019ve shown the whole year we\u2019re basically never out of games, so I think we\u2019ve shown our resilience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lesser teams might have folded after seeing a 4-2 lead evaporate on the road against an experienced playoff team like the Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton scored with 2:12 left in the second period and then at 13:51 of the third, getting goals from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/zach-hyman-8475786\" title=\"Zach Hyman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Hyman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/josh-samanski-8484509\" title=\"Josh Samanski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Samanski<\/a>\u00a0to seemingly pull the game out of the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the Ducks kept pushing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cutter-gauthier-8483445\" title=\"Cutter Gauthier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cutter Gauthier<\/a> found a loose puck in front off a fortunate bounce and lifted the go-ahead goal in past Oilers goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-ingram-8478971\" title=\"Connor Ingram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Ingram<\/a>\u00a0to restore the lead at 15:08 of the third.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-poehling-8480068\" title=\"Ryan Poehling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Poehling<\/a> added an empty-net goal with Ingram on the bench for an extra attacker at 18:50.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019ve seen it all season long where we have that resilience and that confidence in this locker room that we\u2019re never out of a single game,\u201d said Gauthier, who scored two goals and had an assist in the win. \u201cLast game we were able to come back and tonight we had the lead. It was fun playing with the lead a little bit, after being down (in Game 1) and we\u2019re happy the guys were able to secure the \u2018W\u2019 tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON &#8212; For a young team, the Anaheim Ducks showed a lot of maturity in winning Game 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-625325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}