EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Quacking back to even up the series.<\/p>\n
Connor Murphy and Josh\u00a0Samanski each collected their first career playoff goals, but the Edmonton Oilers lost the special teams battle on Wednesday to the Anaheim Ducks, who earned a split of the series with a 6-4 victory in Game 2 of their first-round series at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been in this situation a lot tied going on the road,” Connor McDavid said. “We’re comfortable on the road, we like playing on the road, and obviously we would’ve liked a better outcome and a better product tonight, but we’re comfortable going on the road.”<\/p>\n
“It’s playoffs, and we have to start going.”<\/p>\n
After scoring three times in the second period in Game 1 on Monday, the Ducks followed suit in Game 2 by notching even-strength, power-play and shorthanded goals in the middle frame to build a 4-1 advantage that would once again require the Oilers to try and rally their way back from a multi-goal deficit.<\/p>\n
Tallies from Connor Murphy and Zach Hyman in the second period had the Oilers within one before Josh Samanski’s first playoff goal in his playoff debut pulled them level at 4-4 in the third, but the comeback was undone with under five minutes left in regulation on Cutter Gauthier’s second goal that came off a bad bounce off Leon\u00a0Draisaitl’s skate.<\/p>\n
The Oilers finished 0-for-4 on the power play, also conceding the shorthanded marker to Ryan Poehling, while the Ducks went 2-for-3 with the man advantage to earn the edge in the special teams’ battle for the second straight game in this series.<\/p>\n
“Special teams were a big part of it,” Zach Hyman said. “We are usually very good on the power play, and obviously, we were minus one, so that can’t happen.<\/p>\n
Poehling had two goals for the Ducks along with Gauthier, including the empty-netter that sealed the Ducks’ split of the series as it shifts to Anaheim for Games 3 & 4 this coming Friday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
Draisaitl had a goal and an assist to give him multiple points\u00a0in each game this series, while Matt Savoie was also able to contribute his first career playoff point on a night of firsts for the Oilers in defeat.<\/p>\n
The series will continue on Friday with Game 3 at Honda Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Quacking back to even up the series. Connor Murphy and Josh\u00a0Samanski each collected their first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-622947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622947","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=622947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}