EDMONTON, AB \u2013 This series is far from finished.<\/p>\n
Leon Draisaitl scored twice, Evan\u00a0Bouchard recorded three helpers, and both Connor\u00a0McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins added two assists for the Edmonton Oilers, who staved off elimination from the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Tuesday night at Rogers Place with a 4-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks in Game 5 of their first-round series.<\/p>\n
The Oilers trail 3-2 in the series heading\u00a0back to Anaheim for Game 6 on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“I like how we responded,” Vasily Podkolzin said. “We’re a great team. We have a couple of veterans here who know how to play deep into the playoffs, and I like that we have a lot of confidence in our room.\u00a0Nothing’s done yet.”<\/p>\n
Podkolzin scored 2:22 into regulation to kick off a three-goal explosion from the Oilers in a 7:51 span of the first period, scoring their fastest three goals to begin a home playoff game since Game 6 of the 2017 Second Round \u2013 also against the Ducks (8:25).<\/p>\n
Zach Hyman and Leon Draisaitl scored off deflections 1:40 apart in the first period to lift Edmonton into a three-goal lead, before the German notched\u00a0his second goal of the night on the power play with 9:36 left in the second period to make it 4-1 after Alex\u00a0Killorn got the Ducks on the board two minutes earlier with the man advantage.<\/p>\n
Connor\u00a0Ingram stopped 29 of 30 shots, including 23 saves over the final two periods, to earn the victory in his return to the crease for Tuesday’s elimination scenario.<\/p>\n
“I like our leadership group. They sent a great message after Game 4 that nothing’s done yet,” Podkolzin said. “Only our group could come back from nothing, and I really like our mood in our locker room. I really like how we responded today, but tomorrow is a new day. We’re going to fly to Anaheim and be ready for Game 6.”<\/p>\n
The Oilers will need to win another do-or-die Game 6 on Thursday at Honda Center in Anaheim for the right to host the all-important Game 7 at Rogers Place on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“A really big effort,” Connor McDavid said. “We’re still in a tough spot, a really tough spot, and we’ve got to find a way to win in a tough building. I thought we were right there in Game 4, and another great opportunity in Game 6.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 This series is far from finished. Leon Draisaitl scored twice, Evan\u00a0Bouchard recorded three helpers, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-635901","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\/635901","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=635901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}