{"id":293059,"date":"2026-04-30T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293059\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:55:26","slug":"edmonton-oilers-set-for-must-win-game-6-against-ducks-in-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293059\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers set for must-win Game 6 against Ducks in Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ANAHEIM \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> are set for another must-win game tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonton is visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> for Game 6 in their first-round series in the Stanley Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anaheim holds a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series after Edmonton earned a 4-1 win in Game 5 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Oilers lost three straight games before Tuesday following their Game 1 victory on April 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonton hasn\u2019t lost a playoff series outside the Stanley Cup final since falling in the second round to Vegas in 2022-23. The Oilers lost to Florida the last two seasons in the Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, this is Anaheim\u2019s first playoff appearance since 2017-18. The Ducks\u2019 last playoff series win was against Edmonton in 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers are set for another must-win game tonight. Edmonton is visiting the Anaheim Ducks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-293059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293059","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=293059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}