Kapanen took a pass in the slot from Vasily Podkolzin, who was behind the net, and beat Lukas Dostal glove side with a one-timer.<\/p>\n
His goal came after Jason Dickinson, who was returning from a lower-body injury that kept him out the final three regular-season games, tied it 3-3 with his second goal at 11:30 of the third. Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas fell to the ice while skating back into the zone, which allowed Mattias Ekholm to skate in uncontested and put a slap shot on Dostal from the left circle. The Ducks goalie made the initial save, but the rebound kicked right out to Dickinson, who buried it into the open net.<\/p>\n
Leon Draisaitl had two assists in his return after missing the final 14 games of the regular season with a lower-body injury for the Oilers, who are the No. 2 seed from the Pacific Division. Connor Ingram made 23 saves.<\/p>\n
Troy Terry scored twice and added an assist, and Leo Carlsson had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who are the No. 3 seed from the Pacific. Dostal made 30 saves.<\/p>\n
Game 2 of the best-of-7 series will be here on Wednesday (10 p.m. ET; CBC, SN, TVAS2, KCOP-13, TBS, Victory+, HBO MAX).<\/p>\n
Dickinson put the Oilers ahead 1-0 at 17:21 of the first. He got behind Ducks defenseman Tyson Hinds, took a lead pass from Jake Walman, and deked Dostal on a breakaway before putting a backhand into an open net.<\/p>\n
Kapanen made it 2-0 exactly one minute later at 18:21. He chopped down his own rebound in the low slot before batting the puck in past a diving Dostal near the left post.<\/p>\n
Terry cut it to 2-1 just 19 seconds into the second period, getting the rebound of Carlsson’s shot in the right circle and scoring past Ingram’s outstretched left pad.<\/p>\n
Carlsson tied it 2-2 at 4:37, this time tapping in the rebound of a shot from Terry.<\/p>\n
Terry then gave Anaheim its first lead of the game, 3-2, on a power play at 14:29. He scored with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle through a screen by Chris Kreider and over Ingram\u2019s right shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kapanen took a pass in the slot from Vasily Podkolzin, who was behind the net, and beat Lukas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-278059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}