{"id":279112,"date":"2026-04-21T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:57:40","slug":"late-goal-sees-oilers-earn-4-3-win-in-game-1-of-series-against-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279112\/","title":{"rendered":"Late goal sees Oilers earn 4-3 win in Game 1 of series against Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kasperi Kapanen’s second goal of the game, scored with under two minutes left in the third period, lifted the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Anaheim Ducks 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<\/a> 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

\"AEdmonton Oilers’ Jason Dickinson (16) celebrates a goal against the Anaheim Ducks during the first period. (Codie McLachlan\/The Canadian Press)<\/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

\"HockeyFans cheer as the Edmonton Oilers and Anaheim Ducks take the ice. (Codie McLachlan\/The Canadian Press)<\/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’s second of the game.<\/p>\n

Game 2 takes place on Wednesday in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Edmonton Oilers playoff run begins:\"\"<\/p>\n

Edmonton Oilers playoff run begins<\/p>\n

The Edmonton Oilers take on the Anaheim Ducks tonight at Rogers Place for Game 1 of the NHL playoffs. And after a rollercoaster two seasons is the third time the charm for this team? Emily Fitzpatrick spoke to fans ahead of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-279112","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\/279112","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=279112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}