Edmonton Oilers (41-30-11, in the Pacific Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (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 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 has scored 41 goals with 28 assists for the Ducks. Mikael Granlund has one goal and 10 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Evan Bouchard has 21 goals and 74 assists for the Oilers. Connor McDavid 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: out (hand), Ross Johnston: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Oilers: Jason Dickinson: day to day (undisclosed), Adam Henrique: out (lower-body), Max Jones: out (lower-body), Mattias Janmark: out for season (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/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":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1489,127,4626],"class_list":["post-285413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285413","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=285413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}