Connor Ingram<\/a> stoned big centre Leo Carlsson in alone seconds before Kapanen\u2019s winner. It was an early series-changer, the kind of save Oilers fans have longed for.<\/p>\n\u201cAnother big game from him,\u201d said head coach Kris Knoblauch. \u201cOne goal they got was a deflection off the hip of one of our defencemen. (Another was) a rebound goal. He made a huge save with five minutes left (Carlsson) and the last one in the last few seconds, an empty net…I think Ekky made the save.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was Ingram\u2019s first career playoff win, after playing four games for Nashville in \u201922.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, took me four tries, bro. Thank you,\u201d he joked with reporters. \u201cNo, it means a lot. It’s been cool, a wild year. I hit 100 games, 50 wins, things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, Ingram walked out of the tunnel into a raging Rogers Place in all its playoff glory, one of the great moments in the career of any NHL player. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are or what you\u2019ve done, that\u2019s a moment that raises the hair on the back of even the most grizzled neck.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d marvelled Ingram. \u201cThe bulk of my career I played out of Mullett Arena (in Tempe, Arizona), so to walk out that tunnel today, it\u2019s a different animal. It\u2019s loud in there. It was fun. After the anthem, I usually smile and take it all in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was one today where I was like \u2018this is cool.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not what the Ducks were saying, as they walked out into a spring night knowing they\u2019d let a big opportunity slip away.<\/p>\n
They erased a 2-0 first-period lead with a three-goal second, and held that 3-2 lead with eight minutes to play. On a night where they shut down the vaunted Oilers power play \u2014 and the best player in the world \u2014 Anaheim still got the ol\u2019 ham sandwich.<\/p>\n
Now, you just know the Oilers will only get harder to beat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just not our game. Too many turnovers, not hard enough on pucks,\u201d Draisaitl said of the second period. He had two assists but has much, much more in his bag than he showed in Game 1. \u201cI felt OK. It\u2019s certainly going to take a couple of games to really be myself and really trust myself again.\u201d<\/p>\n
OIL SPILLS \u2014 Adam Henrique left the game in Period 1 and did not return. No news from the coach, but we\u2019re expecting Josh Samanski in the Oilers\u2019 Game 2 lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The \u2018A\u2019 clich\u00e9 at this time of year is a true hockeyism: Your best players have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-618564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618564","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=618564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}