{"id":285076,"date":"2026-04-25T05:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:56:26","slug":"ducks-score-4-in-3rd-period-pull-away-from-oilers-in-game-3-of-western-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285076\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks score 4 in 3rd period, pull away from Oilers in Game 3 of Western 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael Granlund had a goal and three assists, Carlsson and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist, and Lukas Dostal made 20 saves for Anaheim in its first home playoff game in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist, Leon Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard each had two assists, and Connor Ingram made 32 saves for the Oilers, who had leads of 1-0 and 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks have a 2-1 lead in the best-of-7 series. Game 4 will be at Honda Center on Sunday (9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, CBC, TVAS, Victory+).<\/p>\n<p>The game was tied 3-3 entering the third period before Sennecke put the Ducks back in front, scoring far side from the left circle off a rush to make it 4-3 at 2:53.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsson then converted a feed from Troy Terry on a 2-on-1 rush, deking to his backhand to tuck the puck in at the right post for a 5-3 lead at 3:35.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid brought the Oilers back within a goal, getting Edmonton\u2019s first power-play goal of the series with a wrist shot from low in the right circle that went off the stick blade of Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov and off Dostal\u2019s body to cut it to 5-4 at 8:36.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Viel controlled a loose puck at the end of an Anaheim rush and swept in a backhand from the bottom of the left circle to make it 6-4 at 16:57.<\/p>\n<p>LaCombe scored into an empty net with 1:33 left for the 7-4 final.<\/p>\n<p>Vasily Podkolzin scored with a snap shot from the right face-off circle to give the Oilers a 1-0 lead at 13:12 of the first period after Anaheim\u2019s failed clear went right to his stick.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks defenseman Drew Helleson took a shot from the right point that Mason McTavish tipped off the tip of Ingram&#8217;s glove and into the net to tie it 1-1 at 16:18.<\/p>\n<p>Granlund scored into an open net for a power-play goal, making it 2-1 Anaheim at 17:45 after Chris Kreider\u2019s deflection of Carlsson\u2019s shot went off Ingram\u2019s pad and straight to Granlund.<\/p>\n<p>After getting outshot 20-7 in the first period, the Oilers scored twice in the first six minutes of the second period to move back in front.<\/p>\n<p>Kasperi Kapanen scored his third goal of the series with a snap shot from the right circle to tie it 2-2 at 3:57.<\/p>\n<p>Dostal couldn&#8217;t cover the puck after making a save on Bouchard and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins jammed it into the net for a 3-2 lead at 5:39.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks tied it 3-3 at 12:37 when Granlund got to a rebound in the slot area and pushed it to Alex Killorn at the bottom of the left circle for a shot into the open side of the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikael Granlund had a goal and three assists, Carlsson and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-285076","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\/285076","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=285076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}