{"id":294432,"date":"2026-05-01T05:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294432\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:15:31","slug":"oilers-set-for-must-win-game-6-against-ducks-in-anaheim-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294432\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers set for must-win Game 6 against Ducks in Anaheim \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers are set for another must-win game tonight.<\/p>\n

Edmonton is visiting the Anaheim Ducks for Game 6 in their first-round series in the Stanley Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n

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

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnaheim Ducks goaltender Ville Husso (33) guards the net against Edmonton Oilers’ Zach Hyman (18) during second period first round Game 5 NHL playoff action in Edmonton on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Codie McLachlan<\/p>\n

The Oilers lost three straight games before Tuesday following their Game 1 victory on April 20.<\/p>\n

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

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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

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 30, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers are set for another must-win game tonight. Edmonton is visiting the Anaheim Ducks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-294432","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\/294432","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=294432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}