{"id":925107,"date":"2026-10-08T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925107\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:14:09","slug":"bouchard-scores-twice-for-oilers-in-win-against-ducks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925107\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouchard scores twice for Oilers in win against Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bouchard scored with a slap shot from the right point 11 seconds into the second period to cut it to 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the first, we&#8217;re like, &#8216;You know what, what could possibly go more wrong, so just go out there and start working,&#8217; and we did,&#8221; Oilers defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mattias-ekholm-8475218\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mattias Ekholm<\/a>\u00a0said. &#8220;We got a good start, right off the bat, with a big goal, first shift, and just kept on plugging away from there.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kasperi-kapanen-8477953\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasperi Kapanen<\/a>\u00a0scored his 100th NHL goal with a one-timer from the bottom of the left circle while on a power play to tie it 2-2 at 6:30.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard scored his NHL-leading sixth goal of the season with a slap shot from above the circles to give the Oilers a 3-2 lead at 14:12.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We came out flat at the start of the second and we can&#8217;t do that,&#8221; Sennecke said.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl made a stretch pass to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/vasily-podkolzin-8481617\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vasily Podkolzin<\/a>\u00a0as he slipped behind the Anaheim defense and he scored on a breakaway to make it 4-2 at 16:49.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid entered the Anaheim zone with speed and slipped the puck between Dostal&#8217;s pads from above the left hash marks during 4-on-4 play to stretch the lead to 5-2 with 52 seconds left in the period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They scored at the beginning of the period and the end of the period in the last minute,&#8221; Quenneville said. &#8220;In between, we didn&#8217;t do much. I think we watched a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bouchard scored with a slap shot from the right point 11 seconds into the second period to cut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-925107","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\/925107","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=925107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}