The Ducks\u00a0(2-1)\u00a0face the Oilers\u00a0(1-2)\u00a0in the\u00a0second game at Honda Center\u00a0for\u00a0Game 4\u00a0of the First Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for\u00a06:30\u00a0p.m. PT and will air\u00a0locally\u00a0on\u00a0KCOP-13\u00a0and\u00a0Victory+. The game is also\u00a0nationally\u00a0televised\u00a0on\u00a0ESPN.<\/p>\n
Anaheim\u00a0went up a game in the series as it\u00a0convincingly\u00a0beat Edmonton, 7-4, on Friday,\u00a0good for the team\u2019s\u00a0first home playoff\u00a0victory\u00a0since\u00a0May 2017. The seven goals were a franchise playoff record and additionally,\u00a0were scored by seven different Ducks players. Four\u00a0of\u00a0those players\u00a0scored their first career playoff goals.<\/p>\n
While the game was tied 3-3 heading into the third period, the Ducks scored four goals in the final frame\u00a0to edge the Oilers.\u00a0Most notably, Beckett Sennecke and Leo Carlsson each scored 42 seconds apart\u00a0to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully, they turn out to be great players because they’ve shown all the ingredients,”\u00a0head\u00a0coach Joel\u00a0Quenneville said of Sennecke and Carlsson. “They want to be the best they can be on a daily basis, and I think that kind of pushes them and they’re showing that’s their mindset and that’s their objective.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s once again status quo on the injury front for the Ducks for Game 4; Radko Gudas\u00a0(lower-body)\u00a0remains out while Troy Terry is in.<\/p>\n
As\u00a0for the Oilers,\u00a0a change may be on the horizon in the net. On Saturday,\u00a0head coach Kris\u00a0Knoblauch hadn\u2019t settled on a starting goalie for Game 4 as Connor Ingram is 1-2 in the series with Tristan Jarry waiting in the wings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cToday in the NHL, very rarely do you have one goalie play all the games in the playoffs,\u201d Knoblauch said. \u201c20 years ago and before that, it was unheard of to be swapping goalies, but we got two good goalies that we feel confident that they can both play. Going into the playoffs, we felt that there was going to be a time when we’re going to have to make a switch. So whether that’s for game four or game five, whatever it is, we have confidence in both.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a win tonight, the Ducks have an opportunity to take a\u00a03-1 series lead back to Edmonton to close this\u00a0first round\u00a0out.\u00a0When asked about what\u2019s at stake, Quenneville said\u00a0his group is\u00a0riding the energy from the last two wins\u00a0noting continuing to play a solid\u00a0\u201cteam game\u201d is what the group is focusing on tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cMomentum is always important in a playoff series,\u201d he said. \u201cWe took it from Games 2 to 3 which was a great test,\u00a0and we know that tonight\u2019s going to be our biggest challenge. I think\u00a0that being ready for the start of the game and continuing on from that pace [is important.] We anticipate this will be the hardest game\u00a0and we feel that we have to improve from each game.\u201d<\/p>\n
A challenge certainly awaits Anaheim as Edmonton\u00a0has won six-consecutive\u00a0Game 4s when trailing 2-1 in a series.\u00a0Per Jack Michaels of the\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0broadcast team, Knoblauch\u2019s\u00a0Oilers squads are 19-4 in Games 4-7 after\u00a0going\u00a011-16 in Games 1-3.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know they\u2019re going to push tonight,\u201d Jeffrey Viel said\u00a0of the Oilers. \u201cFor us I think it\u2019s just keep playing the way we\u2019ve been playing. Play\u00a0consistent\u00a0hard 60 minutes and be ready for their push.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks\u00a0(2-1)\u00a0face the Oilers\u00a0(1-2)\u00a0in the\u00a0second game at Honda Center\u00a0for\u00a0Game 4\u00a0of the First Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-287167","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\/287167","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=287167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}