{"id":635709,"date":"2026-04-29T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:23:08","slug":"edmonton-oilers-lead-anaheim-ducks-after-second-period-in-game-5-of-first-round-playoff-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635709\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers lead Anaheim Ducks after second period in Game 5 of first-round playoff series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Edmonton Oilers<\/a> have a 4-1 lead over the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> after the second period in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

The Ducks got on the board midway through the second period on the power play with Colton Dach<\/a> in the box as Mason McTavish<\/a> found Alex Killorn<\/a> in front of the net to beat Connor Ingram<\/a> to make it 3-1. <\/p>\n

The Oilers would get another opportunity on the man advantage when Ducks defenceman Jacob Trouba<\/a> went off for hooking and they would capitalize. <\/p>\n

Evan Bouchard<\/a> made a big play to hold the puck in at the blueline and dished off to Connor McDavid<\/a> streaking in, who would find Leon Draisaitl<\/a> for his second of the game as he one-timed the puck past Ville Husso<\/a> for the 4-1 lead. <\/p>\n

Around midway through the period, the Oilers had an injury scare as defenceman Connor Murphy<\/a> went down the tunnel after breaking up a 2-on-1. After getting up, he had his left glove off and was shaking out his left hand\/wrist before departing with the team\u2019s athletic trainer. <\/p>\n

He would return to the bench shortly after.<\/p>\n

In the first period, the Oilers struck first just over two minutes in as Bouchard found a streaking Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> who beat Lukas Dostal<\/a> up high for the 1-0 lead. It was Edmonton\u2019s first shot on goal. <\/p>\n

Hyman doubled Edmonton\u2019s lead five minutes later as he redirected a shot from the point by Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> past Dostal to make it 2-0. <\/p>\n

Draisaitl made it a 3-0 game two minutes later as he tipped in a shot from Bouchard past Dostal. <\/p>\n

Draisaitl\u2019s goal would end Dostal\u2019s night after he allowed three goals on eight shots, giving way to Husso. <\/p>\n

The Ducks lead the best-of-seven series 3-1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers have a 4-1 lead over the Anaheim Ducks after the second period in Game 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[79559,712,49,48,23752,79560],"class_list":["post-635709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-anaheim-ducks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-24","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635709","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=635709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}