EDMONTON, Alberta \u2014 Cutter Gauthier broke a tie off a rebound with 4:52 left and the Anaheim Ducks beat Edmonton 6-4 in Game 2 to even the first-round series, with Oilers star Connor McDavid escaping a leg injury.<\/p>\n
McDavid caught an edge with his skate blade early in the second period after getting tangled up with teammate Mattias Ekholm and the Ducks\u2019 Ian Moore. McDavid briefly left the game before returning, playing just over 24 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fine,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cI just rolled up on it a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Game 3 is in Anaheim. Edmonton opened the series with a 4-3 victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been in this situation a lot, 1-1 going on the road,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cWe\u2019re comfortable on the road, we like playing on the road. Obviously, we\u2019d like a better outcome tonight and a better product tonight, but we\u2019re comfortable going on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauthier put the Ducks back in front after Josh Samanski \u2014 making his playoff debut \u2014 tied it at 4 with 6:09 to go. Ryan Poehling put it away with an empty-netter with 1:10 left, his second goal of the game. He scored short-handed in the second.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have the confidence,\u201d Gauthier said. \u201cAll season long when games have been tied and we\u2019ve been down goals, we\u2019ve been in some high-pressure moments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauthier also scored on a first-period power play and set up Alex Killorn\u2019s second-period goal on a man advantage. Killorn added two assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s kind of been the way we\u2019ve been the entire year,\u201d Killorn said. \u201cIt\u2019s stressful playing that way. I think we\u2019re getting used to it, but I think we\u2019d like to be a little bit better with the lead and hold on to some of those leads. But the resiliency in this group is pretty phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacob Trouba added a goal, fellow defenseman Jackson LaCombe had three assists and Lukas Dostal stopped 33 shots.<\/p>\n
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist for Edmonton. He returned for Game 1 from a lower-body injury against Nashville on March 15.<\/p>\n
Connor Murphy and Zach Hyman also scored for the Oilers, and Connor Ingram made 22 saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta \u2014 Cutter Gauthier broke a tie off a rebound with 4:52 left and the Anaheim Ducks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-282209","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282209","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=282209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}