{"id":278653,"date":"2026-04-21T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:35:26","slug":"oilers-host-the-ducks-with-1-0-series-lead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278653\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers host the Ducks with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anaheim Ducks<\/a> (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers<\/a> (41-30-11, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Edmonton, Alberta; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Oilers -191, Ducks +158; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n

NHL<\/a> PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Oilers lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers host the Anaheim Ducks in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 1-0 lead in the series. The teams meet Monday for the fifth time this season. The Oilers won the last meeting 4-3. Jason Dickinson<\/a> scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n

Edmonton has gone 41-30-11 overall with a 17-7-3 record in Pacific Division games. The Oilers are 40-9-8 in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n

Anaheim has a 43-33-6 record overall and a 15-11-1 record in Pacific Division play. The Ducks have gone 38-13-4 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jack Roslovic<\/a> has scored 21 goals with 15 assists for the Oilers. Connor McDavid<\/a> has seven goals and 10 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier<\/a> has 41 goals and 28 assists for the Ducks. Leo Carlsson<\/a> has scored six goals and added two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Oilers: 6-2-2, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.7 assists, 2.7 penalties and six penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Ducks: 2-6-2, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.4 assists, 3.6 penalties and 9.5 penalty minutes while giving up four goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Oilers: Max Jones<\/a>: out (lower-body), Mattias Janmark: out for season (undisclosed).<\/p>\n

Ducks: Petr Mrazek: out for season (lower-body), Jansen Harkins<\/a>: out (upper body), Ross Johnston<\/a>: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (41-30-11, in the Pacific Division) Edmonton, Alberta; Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,18693,1718,2070,80631,90593,16587,11508,1716,3863,896,10371],"class_list":{"0":"post-278653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-connor-mcdavid","13":"tag-cutter-gauthier","14":"tag-edmonton-oilers","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-jack-roslovic","17":"tag-jansen-harkins","18":"tag-jason-dickinson","19":"tag-leo-carlsson","20":"tag-max-jones","21":"tag-national-hockey-league","22":"tag-ross-johnston"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278653","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=278653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}