The Ducks\u00a0(0-1)\u00a0look to rebound as they have their sights set\u00a0tying\u00a0the series in\u00a0Game\u00a02\u00a0in Edmonton\u00a0(1-0)\u00a0before coming home to Honda Center.<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for\u00a07\u00a0p.m. PT and will air\u00a0locally\u00a0on\u00a0KCOP-13and\u00a0Victory+. The game is also\u00a0nationally\u00a0televised\u00a0on\u00a0TBS.<\/p>\n
Anaheim narrowly escaped out of Edmonton with a win\u00a0in Game 1\u00a0but\u00a0fell to the Oilers, 4-3.\u00a0Troy Terry\u00a0(2-1=3)\u00a0and Leo Carlsson\u00a0(1-1=2)\u00a0made the most of their playoff debuts\u00a0by scoring the team\u2019s\u00a0goals and netting an assist apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a sluggish first period to\u00a0fall behind\u00a02-0, the Ducks came out with a vengeance in\u00a0the\u00a0second to go up 3-2.\u00a0While the Oilers eventually tied and scored the go-ahead goal in the third, the Ducks had a\u00a0shot to re-tie the game\u00a0near the end of the period but couldn\u2019t mount the comeback.<\/p>\n
“It was a tough loss, we did a lot of things right,\u201d head coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cWe\u2019re happy with certain things.\u00a0Disappointed, but it creates a more desperate appetite for us moving forward.\u00a0We\u2019re never out of a game. We\u2019re competitive, and the consistency of our team game and structure in our game that\u2019s been there in the regular season, is here.”<\/p>\n
As for tonight\u2019s game,\u00a0Radko Gudas (undisclosed) has been ruled\u00a0out\u00a0and Drew Helleson will make his playoff debut in Gudas\u2019 place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[I\u2019m here to] play my game, defend well, be hard to play against,\u201d Helleson said\u00a0of what to expect in this game. \u201cMake simple plays and just kind of the things I’ve been doing here lately and hopefully I can keep that going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, while Terry didn\u2019t participate in Wednesday\u2019s morning skate, he will play tonight, per Quenneville.<\/p>\n
Former Duck and current Oiler Adam Henrique will miss this game\u00a0after exiting Monday\u2019s contest in the first period with an injury.\u00a0In a corresponding move,\u00a0Josh Samanski is expected to make his playoff debut in place of Henrique.\u00a0Jason Dickinson, who\u00a0tied the game in the third for the home team, is considered a game-time\u00a0decision, per Edmonton.<\/p>\n
With a team largely comprised of\u00a0guys who haven\u2019t played in the postseason,\u00a0the Ducks are looking to play freer\u00a0in Game 2 now that the first game jitters are a thing\u00a0of the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe\u00a0nerves are a little bit settled, like most people said,\u201d Cutter Gauthier mentioned.\u00a0We didn\u2019t know what to expect going into it but us young guys who never played in a playoff game before,\u00a0it was nice getting that comfortability going into it and\u00a0I\u2019mconfident\u00a0all the young guys are going to feel great going out there tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks\u00a0(0-1)\u00a0look to rebound as they have their sights set\u00a0tying\u00a0the series in\u00a0Game\u00a02\u00a0in Edmonton\u00a0(1-0)\u00a0before coming home to Honda Center.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-280819","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\/280819","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=280819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}