{"id":290220,"date":"2026-04-28T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:19:07","slug":"preview-jobs-not-finished-ducks-look-to-keep-surging-in-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290220\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Job’s Not Finished. Ducks Look to Keep Surging in Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ducks (3-1) head back to Edmonton for Game 5 with a chance to take the series over the Oilers (1-3).<\/p>\n

Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. PT and will air locally on KCOP-13 and Victory+. The game is also nationally televised on TNT.<\/p>\n

The \u201cCardiac Quacks\u201d lived up to their name as Anaheim beat Edmonton in overtime, 4-3 in Game 4 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Viel tied it in the third to take it to the extra frame which was not short on drama. The game-winner came courtesy of Ryan Poehling, which after a review, it was determined that the puck crossed the goal line to give Anaheim the team\u2019s 25th\u00a0overtime goal in franchise playoff history.<\/p>\n

“Before I took that draw, I remember my college coach always told me, ’60 percent of the overtime winners come off of face-offs,’ ” Poehling said. “So, it’s a big play to win that draw and bear down. … Just trying to go back door to (Chris Kreider) and got a lucky bounce off their defenseman’s skate.”<\/p>\n

Lukas Dostal had 24 saves while John Carlson and Jackson LaCombe had two assists each. As of Monday morning, LaCombe led all players in scoring in the Stanley Cup Playoffs with eight points. Additionally, he set the franchise playoff record for points and assists by a defenseman in a playoff series.<\/p>\n

Game 5 Factoids<\/a><\/p>\n

With Edmonton on the ropes, Connor McDavid and Jason Dickinson are both game-time decisions per head coach Kris Knoblauch. McDavid hasn\u2019t missed a game this series yet appeared to sustain a lower-body injury in Game 2. He has one goal and three assists in the four games. Dickinson returned to the Oilers lineup in Game 4 after missing the prior two games with a lower-body injury. Connor Ingram will return to the net for Edmonton tonight.<\/p>\n

As for the Ducks, Quenneville said it\u2019s \u201cnot likely\u201d the team will make any lineup changes.<\/p>\n

With a chance to punch their ticket to the next round, the Ducks know so much is at stake in tonight\u2019s matchup, yet Quenneville and his team said they\u2019re looking forward to the test as they refuse to take Edmonton lightly knowing how much experience they\u2019ve had in the postseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve played so many playoff rounds the last few years, they\u2019re hardened to this type of situation so we don\u2019t expect anything but their best,\u201d he said of Edmonton. \u201cI think (for) ourselves, it\u2019s one more thing we can find out about our group and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing us respond to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[We need to] be relentless out there,\u201d Beckett Sennecke said about his team\u2019s mentality. \u201cEspecially when we know they\u2019re going to come hard, we have to get after them and play our game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (3-1) head back to Edmonton for Game 5 with a chance to take the series over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-290220","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\/290220","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=290220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}