{"id":291835,"date":"2026-04-29T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291835\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:21:30","slug":"draisaitls-2-goals-lift-the-oilers-past-the-ducks-4-1-to-stave-off-elimination-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291835\/","title":{"rendered":"Draisaitl’s 2 goals lift the Oilers past the Ducks 4-1 to stave off elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON, Alberta — – Leon Draisaitl<\/a> scored a pair of goals and Evan Bouchard<\/a> chipped in with three assists as the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> staved off elimination by beating the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> 4-1 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Oilers now trail the best-of-seven Western Conference playoff series 3-2 with game 6 on Thursday night in Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> and Zach Hyman<\/a> also scored for the Oilers who had previously allowed six separate leads to slip away in the first four games of the series.<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid<\/a> and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> each had a pair of assists. Edmonton is now 18-3 when scoring first in a game when facing elimination.<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn<\/a> scored for the Ducks.<\/p>\n

Connor Ingram<\/a> made 29 stops for Edmonton, while Ville Husso<\/a> recorded 10 saves for Anaheim after coming in to relieve Lukas Dostal<\/a>, who allowed three goals on nine shots.<\/p>\n

For the fifth straight game the Oilers struck first, scoring on the game’s first shot just 2:22 into the contest as Podkolzin beat Dostal high for his second of the postseason.<\/p>\n

Edmonton took a 2-0 lead 8:33 into the opening period as a point shot was deflected twice, the second time through Dostal’s legs by Hyman.<\/p>\n

The Oilers took a 3-0 lead just 1:14 later as Draisaitl tipped Bouchard’s point shot in for his second of the playoffs. That spelled an early end of the night for Dostal.<\/p>\n

Anaheim got on the board on the power play 8:26 into the second period as Mason McTavish<\/a> dropped it back to Killorn, who extended his points streak to four games with his third goal of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Edmonton responded with a power-play goal a couple of minutes later on a one-timer by Draisaitl, who tied Wayne Gretzky for the most postseason power-play goals in franchise history at 23.<\/p>\n

Edmonton has played the most playoff games of any NHL team since 2022 with 80, two more than the Florida Panthers<\/a>, who beat the Oilers in the last two Stanley Cup finals before failing to qualify this season.<\/p>\n

Playing in his 80th career playoff game, Bouchard collected his 88th point, moving into a tie for third place for players through 80 games with Brian Leetch, behind only Bobby Orr (92) and Paul Coffey (92).<\/p>\n

McDavid (63 points) passed Adam Oates for the second-most points in NHL history when trailing in a playoff series. Only Gretzky (80) has more.<\/p>\n

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