{"id":619713,"date":"2026-04-21T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:15:12","slug":"ducks-missed-their-best-shot-at-a-win-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619713\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks missed their best shot at a win in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The young and aspiring Anaheim Ducks<\/a> seemingly had the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> on the ropes in the opening game of their Pacific Division Semifinal. However, inexperience showed when they couldn\u2019t get the job done.<\/p>\n

The Ducks fell behind the high-powered Oilers 2-0 in Game 1 on Monday night, but thanks to great performances from Troy Terry and Leo Carlsson, the team rallied back, scoring three unanswered goals to take the lead. Anaheim took that lead well into the third period, but Edmonton was able to steal the game back. Goals from Jason Dickinson and Kasperi Kapanen gave the Oilers a 4-3 victory<\/a>, despite captain Connor McDavid failing to put his name on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, DFO Rundown host Jason Gregor joined Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton to explain why Monday night was the Ducks\u2019 best chance at stealing a game in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Jason Gregor: I think they missed their shot a little bit. Um, two of the Oilers\u2019 best players had average games at best in Draisaitl Bouchard and McDavid. The Oilers don\u2019t win a ton of games when McDavid doesn\u2019t get points, even in the playoffs. \u2026 How about the fact that Tim Washe played the most minutes of any Ducks forward against Connor McDavid last night and drew even with them in 6:40? That\u2019s a third of McDavid\u2019s ice time. He played against their fourth line, and the shots were 1-1. They basically used the first and second pair of defense, pretty much split down the middle. .. I thought Anaheim checked them well.<\/p>\n

I look at it, the Ducks a little bit lost. Like, unlucky. Gudas falls down when it\u2019s 3-2 just backwards skating, gives Ekholm that free lane, and Dickinson scores. Dickinson and Kapanen\u2026you need games where guys you don\u2019t expect to score, to score goals. But for both of them to get a pair of goals, it\u2019s only the second time each one of them\u2019s ever done it in their career, right? These are guys that played 50-plus games. So, I think it was probably more of a, a Ducks look back at that one and say, \u201cGod, we let one get away.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment and entire episode here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The young and aspiring Anaheim Ducks seemingly had the Edmonton Oilers on the ropes in the opening game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-619713","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\/619713","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=619713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}