{"id":642112,"date":"2026-05-01T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642112\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:04:15","slug":"ducks-win-game-6-eliminate-oilers-in-western-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642112\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks win Game 6, eliminate Oilers in Western 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cutter Gauthier<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Lukas Dostal<\/a>\u00a0made 25 saves for the Ducks, who won their first Stanley Cup Playoff series since eliminating the Oilers in seven games in the 2017 Western Conference Second Round.<\/p>\n

The Ducks, who are the No. 3 seed from the Pacific Division, will face either the Vegas Golden Knights or Utah Mammoth in the second round. Vegas leads that series 3-2 with Game 6 on Friday.<\/p>\n

Connor Murphy<\/a> and Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> scored, and Connor Ingram<\/a>\u00a0made 26 saves for the Oilers, who reached the Stanley Cup Final the previous two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Ducks scored first for the first time in the series when John Carlson<\/a>\u00a0took a slap shot from above the right face-off circle that went off the stick of Oilers defenseman Jake Walman<\/a>, bounced off the ice and glanced off Ryan Poehling<\/a>\u00a0before trickling across the goal line for a 1-0 lead at 9:56 of the first period.<\/p>\n

Carlsson led a 4-on-3 rush through the neutral zone, got the puck back and then fed Kreider for a one-timer from the right circle and a 2-0 lead at 13:43.<\/p>\n

Dostal couldn’t control a rebound and Josh Samanski<\/a>\u00a0passed the puck through the crease to Murphy, who flipped it into the top of the net with a backhand to cut it to 2-1 at 15:14.<\/p>\n

Anaheim, which came into the game 7-for-14 on the power play in the series, scored on its first man-advantage when Gauthier’s one-timer from the right circle went off the stick blade of Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse<\/a>\u00a0and fluttered over Ingram’s right shoulder for a 3-1 lead at 16:50.<\/p>\n

Dostal, who was removed in the first period of Game 5 after giving up three goals on nine shots in the 4-1 loss, stopped Zach Hyman<\/a>\u00a0on a partial breakaway at 4:36 of the second period, and Hyman put the puck in the net at 18:28, but it was quickly determined he used a kicking motion.<\/p>\n

Terry then finished off a 2-on-1 rush with Carlsson to extend the lead to 4-1 with 47 seconds left in the second period.<\/p>\n

Edmonton cut it to 4-2 at 1:13 of the third period when a shot by Kasperi Kapanen<\/a>\u00a0hit the backside of Podkolzin as he stood in the crease and caromed across the goal line.<\/p>\n

Carlsson scored into an empty net at 17:26 for the 5-2 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier had a goal and an assist, and Lukas Dostal\u00a0made 25 saves for the Ducks, who won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-642112","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\/642112","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=642112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}