{"id":638326,"date":"2026-04-29T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:23:07","slug":"draisaitl-scores-twice-oilers-stave-off-elimination-with-game-5-win-against-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638326\/","title":{"rendered":"Draisaitl scores twice, Oilers stave off elimination with Game 5 win against Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Bouchard<\/a> had three assists, while McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> each had a pair of assists for the Oilers, the No. 2 seed in the Pacific Division. Connor Ingram<\/a>\u00a0made 29 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe communication was great, they let me know what was going on,\u201d Ingram, who was back in net after starting the first three games of the series before giving way to Tristan Jarry<\/a>\u00a0in Game 4, said. \u201cI had no problem with it. I was frustrated after Game 3 (7-4 loss on April 24), just with myself and what was going on, so to give myself a little break mentally and physically was huge, I think.”<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn<\/a> scored for the Ducks, the No. 3 seed in the Pacific. Lukas Dostal<\/a> allowed three goals on nine shots before being replaced by Ville Husso<\/a>\u00a0at 10:13 of the first period. Husso stopped 10 of 11 shots in relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, it\u2019s not going to be easy,\u201d Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cNobody is going to give us anything. We’ve got to get angry at ourselves knowing that we have to be excited about going home and playing in front of our crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> put Edmonton ahead 1-0 at 2:22 of the first period, taking a cross-ice pass from Bouchard to the left dot, skating in and sending a snap shot over the right shoulder of Dostal.<\/p>\n

“It was a good start for us,” Bouchard said. “We\u2019ve had a few good starts in this series, and it\u2019s a matter of holding the lead and I thought we did a good job doing that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard this 1,000 times, when our backs are against the wall, we play good hockey, and we did that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Bouchard had three assists, while McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a pair of assists for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-638326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638326","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=638326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}