Anaheim Ducks (7-7-1, in the Pacific Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (11-2-3, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Edmonton, Alberta; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Anaheim Ducks visit the Edmonton Oilers after Cutter Gauthier’s hat trick against the Vancouver Canucks in the Ducks’ 5-4 win.<\/p>\n
Edmonton has an 11-2-3 record overall and a 6-0-1 record in Pacific Division play. The Oilers have gone 8-1-1 in games their opponents serve more penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
Anaheim is 7-7-1 overall and 2-2-1 against the Pacific Division. The Ducks have a -3 scoring differential, with 54 total goals scored and 57 allowed.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Thursday for the second time this season. The Oilers won 5-2 in the previous meeting. Evan Bouchard led the Oilers with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Connor McDavid has nine goals and 31 assists for the Oilers. Leon Draisaitl has nine goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Gauthier has 10 goals and five assists for the Ducks. Beckett Sennecke has scored five goals with five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Oilers: 6-2-2, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.3 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Ducks: 3-6-1, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.2 assists, 5.7 penalties and 16.2 penalty minutes while giving up 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Oilers: Alec Regula: out (undisclosed), Devon Levi: out (undisclosed), Atro Leppanen: out (undisclosed), Isaac Howard: out (lower body), Zach Hyman: out (neck), Frederik Andersen: out (knee), Matt Savoie: out (lower-body), Mattias Janmark: out (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
Ducks: A.J. Greer: out (upper-body), Troy Terry: out (hip), Ryan Poehling: out (lower-body), Ian Moore: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks (7-7-1, in the Pacific Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (11-2-3, in the Pacific Division) Edmonton, Alberta; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1489,127],"class_list":["post-518294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518294","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=518294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}