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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Connor McDavid<\/a> downplayed getting banged up in Game 2 of the Edmonton Oilers<\/a>\u2019 first-round series against the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

McDavid\u2019s lower right leg appeared to buckle when he collided early in the second period with teammate Mattias Ekholm<\/a>, who was attempting to check Anaheim\u2019s Ian Moore. McDavid left the bench briefly but returned not long after, testing his ankle in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just rolled up on it a little bit,” McDavid said after the 4-2 loss that evened the series. \u201cIt\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDavid has not registered a point in either of the first two games. He also had a turnover after resuming play, when his weak backhand attempt was picked off by Alex Killorn<\/a> on the way to a shorthanded goal for the Ducks.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a little bit of a miscommunication,\u201d McDavid said.<\/p>\n

Game 3 is Friday night at Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Coach Kris Knoblauch said McDavid is putting a lot of pressure on himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants the team to do well,” Knoblauch said. “He\u2019s a leader and usually when we have success, he\u2019s a big part of that. There\u2019ve been stretches during the season that he hasn\u2019t been the best player, nights where he hasn\u2019t been outstanding. That doesn\u2019t happen very often, and I\u2019m certain that he\u2019s going to find his game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edmonton’s power play, which led the NHL<\/a> at 30.6% during the regular season, is 0 for 6 so far in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to find a way to score,\u201d McDavid said, calling the power play still a work in progress. “We haven\u2019t ran our normal routes and had our normal looks for some time. It\u2019s not just a light switch, so we\u2019re working at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Connor McDavid downplayed getting banged up in Game 2 of the Edmonton Oilers\u2019 first-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4855,163,824,165,164,18693,2070,76489,896],"class_list":{"0":"post-282389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-alex-killorn","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-ducks","11":"tag-anaheim-headlines","12":"tag-anaheim-news","13":"tag-connor-mcdavid","14":"tag-edmonton-oilers","15":"tag-mattias-ekholm","16":"tag-national-hockey-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282389","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=282389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}