{"id":287746,"date":"2026-04-27T06:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:17:15","slug":"overtime-goal-warrants-lengthy-review-in-ducks-game-4-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287746\/","title":{"rendered":"Overtime goal warrants lengthy review in Ducks’ Game 4 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ryan Poehling<\/a> scored 2:29 into overtime — a goal that required a lengthy review — and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> pushed Connor McDavid<\/a> and the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> to the brink of first-round elimination with a 4-3 victory<\/a> in Game 4 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Viel<\/a> tied it with 6:29 left in regulation for the Ducks, who rallied from an early two-goal deficit and another third-period hole before taking a 3-1 series lead with their third consecutive victory over the back-to-back Western Conference champion Oilers.<\/p>\n

The Ducks won when Poehling’s sharp-angled shot trickled under goalie Tristan Jarry<\/a>, who had played well in his first playoff start for his new team. The extensive video review revealed no reason to overturn the judgment on the ice that the puck had barely crossed the goal line underneath Jarry’s skate, and as the officials informed the fans, the Honda Center crowd erupted.<\/p>\n

“We were just looking at it. And you really can’t tell,” Jarry said of the overtime goal. “I’m sure you could go either way with it. You could say it’s a goal, it’s no goal, there’s going to be opinions about it. And obviously, on the losing side of it, we didn’t think it went in.”<\/p>\n

Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch concurred.<\/p>\n

“They throw a puck to the net, and unfortunately, it goes off our defenseman’s skate,” Knoblauch said. “And it goes in, and they call it a goal. It was very close, and it was something — I’ve seen it before — where I thought we were going to get away with it.”<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier<\/a> and Mikael Granlund<\/a> scored power-play goals in the second period for the Ducks, whose first playoff series in eight years has been an exciting demonstration of their revamped roster’s ample skill. Ducks goaltenderLukas Dostal<\/a> stopped 24 shots, and Anaheim has scored 20 goals in four games against the vaunted Oilers.<\/p>\n

Evan Bouchard<\/a> scored a tiebreaking goal early in the third period, and Jarry made 34 saves for the Oilers. Kasperi Kapanen<\/a> and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> scored first-period goals.<\/p>\n

Edmonton nearly won it late in regulation, but Dostal made a spectacular, sprawling pad save to deny McDavid on a late breakaway. The Oilers’ superstar center had two assists in Game 4.<\/p>\n

Jarry struggled for Edmonton after arriving in a midseason trade with Pittsburgh, losing his job to Connor Ingram<\/a>. But with the Oilers struggling mightily to stop the fast, exciting Ducks, coach Kris Knoblauch made the switch and got a solid effort from Jarry, who hadn’t played since April 8.<\/p>\n

The Oilers also improved their defensive structure after a shambolic Game 3 — and yet the energetic, hungry Ducks still pumped in four more goals despite playing from behind for most of the night.<\/p>\n

Kapanen silenced the raucous sellout crowd at Honda Center 38 seconds after the opening faceoff with his fourth goal in four games. Nugent-Hopkins then scored Edmonton’s second power-play goal of the series.<\/p>\n

The Ducks began yet another comeback with vicious wrist shot from Gauthier, their 22-year-old top scorer. Anaheim’s once-awful power play has scored in eight consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Granlund and Leo Carlsson<\/a> then teamed up for a fluid give-and-go to tie it.<\/p>\n

Bouchard ripped a wrist shot for a tiebreaking goal just 4 seconds into an Oilers power play, but the Ducks’ fourth line tied it again, with Viel punching home a rebound of John Carlson<\/a>‘s shot for his second career playoff goal.<\/p>\n

Game 5 is Tuesday night in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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