{"id":284889,"date":"2026-04-25T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:14:09","slug":"anaheim-ducks-swarming-edmonton-oilers-after-first-period-in-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284889\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks swarming Edmonton Oilers after first period in Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anaheim Ducks<\/a> used late goals from Mason McTavish<\/a> and Mikael Granlund<\/a> to take a 2-1 lead over the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> after the first period in Game 3 of their first-round series.<\/p>\n

The series is tied 1-1 after the teams split games in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Much of the first period in Game 3 was spent in the Oilers\u2019 zone with the Ducks holding an 20-7 shot advantage.<\/p>\n

But it was Edmonton opening the scoring, as Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> wired a shot in the slot past Ducks netminder Lukas Dostal<\/a> to give the Oilers the lead with just over six minutes remaining in the frame.<\/p>\n

The Ducks were able to answer back three minutes later when McTavish tipped Drew Helleson<\/a>\u2019s point-shot past Connor Ingram<\/a> to tie the game.<\/p>\n

Anaheim then went on the power play under a minute later and capitalized with a goal from Granlund. The Ducks went 1-for-2 on the power play while the Oilers didn\u2019t get an opportunity on the man advantage.<\/p>\n

Edmonton is looking to return to the Stanley Cup Final for the third straight season after falling to the Florida Panthers<\/a> in 2024 and 2025,<\/p>\n

Superstar Connor McDavid<\/a> remains pointless in the series after leading the NHL with 48 goals and 138 points in 82 games during the regular season.<\/p>\n

This is Anaheim\u2019s first playoff appearance since the 2017-18 campaign after they finished third in the Pacific Division with a 43-33-6 record.<\/p>\n

Game 4 is set to take place on Sunday from the Honda Centre in Anaheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Ducks used late goals from Mason McTavish and Mikael Granlund to take a 2-1 lead over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6014,6013,119941],"class_list":["post-284889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-ducks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-24","tag-apple-news","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284889","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=284889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}