{"id":436227,"date":"2026-01-27T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436227\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:11:07","slug":"ekholm-gets-1st-nhl-hat-trick-oilers-end-ducks-winning-streak-at-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436227\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekholm gets 1st NHL hat trick, Oilers end Ducks’ winning streak at 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Granlund put the Ducks ahead 1-0 with his first power-play goal at 3:24 of the first period. He took a pass from Chris Kreider<\/a> in the left circle and roofed a shot over Jarry\u2019s right shoulder.<\/p>\n

Hyman tied it 1-1 with his own power-play goal at 17:14, tapping in a cross-crease pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> at the left post.<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn<\/a> scored 55 seconds into the second period to put the Ducks back in front 2-1. Ryan Poehling<\/a> won a battle with Ekholm and Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> for Killorn’s dump-in behind the net before passing out front to the forward, who beat Jarry’s blocker from the edge of the crease.<\/p>\n

Husso would preserve the one-goal lead by denying McDavid on a penalty shot at 3:18, but the Oilers would pull away by getting four goals from their defensemen in a 3:49 span.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were great breaking the puck out, joining the rush and creating offense for us,\u201d Draisaitl said. \u201cYou need every part of the game to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencer Stastney<\/a> tied it 2-2 at 4:36 when his centering pass for Kasperi Kapanen<\/a> deflected in off of the right skate of Ducks defenseman Olen Zellweger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ekholm gave Edmonton a 3-2 lead at 6:28. Skating in on a rush, Ekholm swept a pass from McDavid back to Hyman before continuing to the net for a give-and-go that he put through Husso\u2019s five-hole.<\/p>\n

Darnell Nurse<\/a> pushed the lead to 4-2 at 7:34. Poehling tripped himself up at the offensive blue line, allowing Nurse to pick up the puck and carry it in on a 2-on-1 rush before beating Husso short side under his blocker from the left circle.<\/p>\n

Ekholm then made it 5-2 at 8:25. Following another turnover by the Ducks in the neutral zone, Ekholm skated in on a 2-on-1 rush and lifted a shot over Husso’s glove from the left circle.<\/p>\n

Granlund cut the lead to 5-3 on a power play at 13:41. He received a spinning cross-ice pass from Sennecke in the right circle and beat Jarry short side under his glove.<\/p>\n

Granlund completed the hat trick with his third power-play goal to get the Ducks to within 5-4 at 13:38 of the third period. He took another a cross-slot pass from Sennecke and scored with a shot from the bottom of the right circle that deflected in off the skate of Nurse.<\/p>\n

It was his third NHL hat trick and his first since Dec. 29, 2017, with the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we were doing a lot of good things out there, playing the right way,\u201d Granlund said. \u201cEveryone was doing what we can in our systems, and I think we\u2019ve been doing a really good job for seven or eight games.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, we didn\u2019t rewarded tonight, but it\u2019s not an easy game playing back-to-back and coming into this building.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDavid scored into an empty net to make it 6-4 at 18:12, and Ekholm completed his hat trick by scoring another empty-net goal with 11 seconds remaining for the 7-4 final.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s a great player all around,\u201d Draisaitl said of Ekholm. \u201cHe knows when to jump into the rush. He’s extremely smart, he’s got a bomb of a shot, he knows when to use it, and his placement is elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOTES: Ekholm entered the night with just three career multigoal games, with his last coming on March 21, 2024. … Ducks forward Cutter Gauthier<\/a> had an assist to push his point streak to five games (three goals, four assists). … Anaheim was 3-for-4 on the power play. Edmonton was 1-for-3. … Oilers center Josh Samanski<\/a> was plus-2 in 7:43 of ice time in his NHL debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Granlund put the Ducks ahead 1-0 with his first power-play goal at 3:24 of the first period. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-436227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}