{"id":278501,"date":"2026-04-21T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278501\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:08:25","slug":"oilers-rally-past-ducks-to-take-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278501\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers rally past Ducks to take Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kasperi Kapanen’s second goal of the game, scored with under two minutes left in the third period, lifted the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> to a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> in the opening game of their first-round playoff series on Monday.<\/p>\n

Jason Dickinson also scored twice for the Oilers.<\/p>\n

The Oilers (41-30-11 in regular-season play) saw star forward Leon Draisaitl return after missing the final 14 regular-season games and pick up a pair of assists, as did Jake Walman.<\/p>\n

The Oilers are seeking their third consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup final, having lost each of the last two seasons to the Florida Panthers, who missed out on post-season play this year.<\/p>\n

Troy Terry had two goals and an assist and Leo Carlsson also scored for the Ducks (43-33-6), who are in the post-season for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n

Connor Ingram made 25 saves, including a doozy in the dying seconds to record the win in Edmonton’s net. Lukas Dostal recorded 30 saves for Anaheim.<\/p>\n

The Oilers started the scoring with 2:39 remaining in the first period as Walman made a long stretch pass to Dickinson, who undressed Dostal with a great move. The Oilers were 30-5-5 when scoring first this season.<\/p>\n

Edmonton scored again exactly a minute later as Kapanen took a feed from Draisaitl and then had two cracks at his own rebound to score his first of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Oilers outshot the Ducks 14-4 in the first period.<\/p>\n

Anaheim only needed 19 seconds into the middle frame to make it 2-1 as Terry scored on a huge rebound off a Leo Carlsson shot.<\/p>\n

The Ducks tied the game 4:38 into the second period as Carlsson returned the favour by banging in a Terry rebound.<\/p>\n

Anaheim recorded 26 comeback wins this season, tied for the league lead with Montreal. The Ducks won 17 games when trailing by a goal and nine when down by two.<\/p>\n

The Ducks took the lead on the power play with 5:31 left in the second as Terry, playing his first career playoff game, sent a shot through traffic in for his second of the contest.<\/p>\n

Edmonton knotted the game at 3-3 as Radko Gudas blew a tire as a huge rebound on a Mattias Ekholm shot came to Dickinson for his second goal of the game.<\/p>\n

The Oilers went up 4-3 with 1:54 left in the third as Vasily Podkolzin made a great backhand pass from behind the net to set up Kapanen\u2019s second of the game.<\/p>\n

McDavid\u2019s 138 regular-season points were exactly double that of Ducks\u2019 leading scorer Cutter Gauthier\u2019s 69. It is the third-largest gap between each team\u2019s leading scorer in an opening-round series in the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

Game 2 takes place on Wednesday in Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kasperi Kapanen’s second goal of the game, scored with under two minutes left in the third period, lifted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-278501","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\/278501","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=278501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}