{"id":285314,"date":"2026-04-25T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:12:36","slug":"ducks-host-the-oilers-with-2-1-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285314\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks host the Oilers with 2-1 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edmonton Oilers<\/a> (41-30-11, in the Pacific Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks<\/a> (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Sunday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Oilers -136, Ducks +113; over\/under is 7<\/p>\n

NHL<\/a> PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Ducks lead series 2-1<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Anaheim Ducks host the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 2-1 lead in the series. The teams meet Friday for the seventh time this season. The Ducks won the last matchup 7-4.<\/p>\n

Anaheim has a 17-11-1 record in Pacific Division games and a 43-33-6 record overall. The Ducks have a -23 scoring differential, with 265 total goals scored and 288 conceded.<\/p>\n

Edmonton has a 41-30-11 record overall and a 17-9-3 record in Pacific Division games. The Oilers have allowed 265 goals while scoring 282 for a +17 scoring differential.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cutter Gauthier<\/a> has scored 41 goals with 28 assists for the Ducks. Mikael Granlund<\/a> has one goal and 10 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Evan Bouchard<\/a> has 21 goals and 74 assists for the Oilers. Connor McDavid<\/a> has six goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 4-5-1, averaging 3.7 goals, six assists, 3.1 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Oilers: 4-4-2, averaging 3.3 goals, six assists, 2.9 penalties and 6.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Ducks: Radko Gudas: day to day (lower body), Petr Mrazek: out for season (lower-body), Jansen Harkins<\/a>: out (hand), Ross Johnston<\/a>: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n

Oilers: Jason Dickinson<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Adam Henrique<\/a>: out (lower-body), Max Jones<\/a>: out (lower-body), Mattias Janmark: out for season (undisclosed).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers (41-30-11, in the Pacific Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division) Anaheim, California; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[89088,163,824,165,164,18693,1718,2070,70138,80631,16587,11508,3863,823,896,10371],"class_list":{"0":"post-285314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-adam-henrique","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-ducks","11":"tag-anaheim-headlines","12":"tag-anaheim-news","13":"tag-connor-mcdavid","14":"tag-cutter-gauthier","15":"tag-edmonton-oilers","16":"tag-evan-bouchard","17":"tag-event_preview","18":"tag-jansen-harkins","19":"tag-jason-dickinson","20":"tag-max-jones","21":"tag-mikael-granlund","22":"tag-national-hockey-league","23":"tag-ross-johnston"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285314","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=285314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285314\/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=285314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}