{"id":283783,"date":"2026-04-24T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:43:13","slug":"nhl-game-preview-edmonton-oilers-vs-anaheim-ducks-with-line-combinations-04-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283783\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers vs Anaheim Ducks with Line Combinations 04\/24\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Oilers-Ducks.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Edmonton Oilers vs. Anaheim Ducks 2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers (41-30-11, 93 pts, 2P) at Anaheim Ducks (43-33-6, 92 pts, 3P)<br \/>Venue: Honda Center<br \/>Date: Friday, April 24th<br \/>Time: 10:00 pm ET \/ 9:00 pm CT \/ 8:00 pm MT<\/p>\n<p>TV: Sportsnet \/ KTTV (Fox 11)<br \/>Radio:<br \/>Anaheim Ducks \u2013 Ducks Stream on TuneIn<br \/>Edmonton Oilers \u2013 CHED 880 AM<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers finished the regular season second in the Pacific Division with 93 points. This is their first Playoff meeting against the Ducks since 2017. This series is tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks finished the regular season third in the Pacific Division with 92 points. This is their first Playoff appearance since 2018. The series is tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Gauthier\/Carlsson\/Terry<br \/>Killorn\/Granlund\/Sennecke<br \/>Kreider\/Poehling\/McTavish<br \/>Viel\/Washe\/Moore<\/p>\n<p>LaCombe\/Trouba<br \/>Mintyukov\/Carlson<br \/>Hinds\/Gudas<\/p>\n<p>Dostal<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Savoie\/McDavid\/Hyman<br \/>Podkolzin\/Draisaitl\/Kapanen<br \/>Dach\/Nugent-Hopkins\/Roslovic<br \/>Frederic\/Samanski\/Lazar<\/p>\n<p>Ekholm\/Bouchard<br \/>Nurse\/Murphy<br \/>Walman\/Emberson<\/p>\n<p>Ingram<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p>Cutter Gauthier led the Ducks in points with 69 through 76 games, 41 goals, during the regular season. He scored 2 goals in Game 2, including the game-winner to tie the series.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers<\/p>\n<p>29-year-old centerman Connor McDavid led the Oilers and the league in points with 138 through 82 games this season. He has 0 points through 2 games in this series.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p>G \/ Mrazek \/ IR<br \/>C \/ Harkins \/ DTD<br \/>D \/ Gudas \/ DTD<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers<\/p>\n<p>C \/ Janmark \/ LTIR<br \/>C \/ Dickinson \/ DTD<br \/>LW \/ Jones \/ OUT<br \/>C \/ Henrique \/ DTD<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/svani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777038193_57_10cb874b3bb4bbaad7014622cd26d4be4b0cbe394c575e70d51e4d086efdb11a.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/svani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Vani<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oilers fan in Toronto. Staying up past my bedtime for Western games since the mid 2000s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: By The Canadian Press Edmonton Oilers (41-30-11, 93 pts, 2P) at Anaheim Ducks (43-33-6, 92 pts, 3P)Venue:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,16029],"class_list":{"0":"post-283783","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-nhl-game-preview"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283783","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=283783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}