{"id":281763,"date":"2026-04-23T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281763\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:00:21","slug":"cutter-gauthier-stars-as-anaheim-ducks-defeat-edmonton-oilers-to-even-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281763\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier stars as Anaheim Ducks defeat Edmonton Oilers to even series"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 Cutter Gauthier<\/a> had a pair of goals and an assist as the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> withstood a comeback attempt and defeated the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> 6-4 to pull even in their opening round playoff series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn<\/a> scored and contributed two helpers and Jacob Trouba<\/a> had one of each for the Ducks, who are in the post-season for the first time since 2018. Ryan Poehling<\/a> added two more goals for the visitors and Jackson Lacombe recorded three assists.<\/p>\n

Leon Draisaitl<\/a>, Connor Murphy<\/a>, Zach Hyman<\/a> and Josh Samanski<\/a> replied for the Oilers.<\/p>\n

Lukas Dostal<\/a> made 33 stops to capture the win in the Anaheim net, while Connor Ingram<\/a> recorded 22 saves for Edmonton.<\/p>\n

The Ducks have won Game 2 in each of their previous three series when trailing 1-0 on the road.<\/p>\n

The Oilers took a 4-3 decision in Game 1 of the best-of-seven matchup on Monday.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl continued to make an impact in his return after missing the final 14 games of the regular season with a lower-body injury. He opened the scoring Wednesday, banking a shot off of defender Drew Helleson<\/a>\u2019s skate and in midway through the opening period.<\/p>\n

The Ducks tied the game up on the power play with 7:12 remaining in the first as Gauthier\u2019s long shot through traffic beat Ingram for his first goal of the post-season.<\/p>\n

Anaheim used another screen effectively 2:44 into the second period to take a 2-1 lead as Trouba scored on a point shot.<\/p>\n

The Ducks got another power-play tally to grab a two-goal advantage 5:35 into the second as Killorn had his own return bounce back to him and scored.<\/p>\n

Shortly before that goal, the Oilers got a real scare as star forward Connor McDavid<\/a> left the game after his right leg got tied up with teammate Mattias Ekholm<\/a> at the Edmonton blueline, but he returned a few minutes later.<\/p>\n

Edmonton got a goal back with 8:14 left in the middle frame as Draisaitl sent the puck back to Murphy and he put a long shot through a screen to beat Dostal. The goal made the 33-year-old blueliner the oldest Oilers defenceman to record his first career playoff goal.<\/p>\n

Anaheim regained the two-goal edge with a short-handed tally with 4:10 left in the second after a dreadful sequence where the Oilers allowed Poehling to deflect in a Killorn shot.<\/p>\n

The Oilers battled back again with 2:12 left in the second as an Ekholm point shot was tipped home by Hyman.<\/p>\n

Edmonton tied the game with 6:09 left in the third after a steal by Matthew Savoie led to a quick snipe by rookie Samanski.<\/p>\n

Anaheim made it 5-4 with 4:52 remaining when a clearing attempt went off a defender\u2019s skate and straight to Gauthier, who sniped his second of the game into a wide-open net.<\/p>\n

Poehling put the game away, scoring into the empty net with 70 seconds left on the game clock.<\/p>\n

McDavid was held without a point for the second game.<\/p>\n

NOTES<\/p>\n

Edmonton was without forward Jason Dickinson<\/a> who had two goals in Game 1 and veteran Adam Henrique<\/a>, while the Ducks were missing blueliner Radko Gudas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Game 3 takes place on Friday in Anaheim.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 22, 2026.<\/p>\n

Shane Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Cutter Gauthier had a pair of goals and an assist as the Anaheim Ducks withstood a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6014,109514,119941],"class_list":{"0":"post-281763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-anaheim-ducks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-24","12":"tag-cutter-gauthier-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8483445","13":"tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281763","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=281763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}