{"id":282050,"date":"2026-04-23T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282050\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:00:12","slug":"gauthier-scores-late-as-ducks-top-oilers-in-game-2-slugfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282050\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauthier scores late as Ducks top Oilers in Game 2 slugfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 Cutter Gauthier 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 scored and contributed two helpers and Jacob Trouba had one of each for the Ducks, who are in the post-season for the first time since 2018. Ryan Poehling added two more goals for the visitors and Jackson Lacombe recorded three assists.<\/p>\n

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

Lukas Dostal made 33 stops to capture the win in the Anaheim net, while Connor Ingram 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\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 left the game after his right leg got tied up with teammate Mattias Ekholm 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

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

Game 3 takes place on Friday in Anaheim.<\/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":282051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-282050","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\/282050","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=282050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}