{"id":640257,"date":"2026-05-01T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640257\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:01:07","slug":"oilers-eliminated-from-stanley-cup-playoffs-after-falling-to-ducks-in-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640257\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers eliminated from Stanley Cup Playoffs after falling to Ducks in Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in three years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> will not be seeing a Stanley Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers were eliminated Thursday night thanks to a 5-2 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"anaheim-ducks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton hasn&#8217;t lost a playoff series outside of the Stanley Cup final since falling in the second round to Vegas in 2022-23. The Oilers lost to Florida the last two seasons in the Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this is Anaheim&#8217;s first playoff appearance since 2017-18. The Ducks&#8217; last playoff series win was against Edmonton in 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim will next play the winner between the Vegas Golden Knights and Utah Mammoth. Vegas leads that series 3-2, with Game 6 to be played on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers entered Thursday&#8217;s game coming off a 4-1 home win in Game 5 on Tuesday after the Ducks rattled off three straight wins to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in three years, the Edmonton Oilers will not be seeing a Stanley Cup final.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-640257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640257","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=640257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}