3. Secondary scoring<\/p>\n
With McDavid not at 100 percent and Draisaitl returning for Game 1 after missing the last 14 games of the regular season with a lower-body injury, the Oilers need scoring from others in the lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kasperi Kapanen<\/a>\u00a0has five points (four goals, one assist) playing on a line with Draisaitl and left wing Vasily Podkolzin<\/a>\u00a0(four points; one goal, three assists). Draisaitl leads Edmonton with seven points (one goal, six assists).\u00a0<\/p>\n “I like to be a difference-maker in every game in a positive way and that doesn’t always mean scoring a goal or getting a point,” Kapanen said. “I’m just going to try and play the same way I’ve been playing these first four games and use my skating. I think I can be more physical, get in their face and hang around the net a lot. That seems to be working for them, and I think that’s kind of what we have to do more.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Ducks projected lineup<\/p>\n Cutter Gauthier — Leo Carlsson — Troy Terry<\/p>\n Alex Killorn — Mikael Granlund — Beckett Sennecke<\/p>\n Chris Kreider — Ryan Poehling — Mason McTavish<\/p>\n Jeffrey Viel — Tim Washe — Ian Moore<\/p>\n Jackson LaCombe \u2013 Jacob Trouba<\/p>\n Pavel Mintyukov — John Carlson<\/p>\n Tyson Hinds — Drew Helleson<\/p>\n Lukas Dostal<\/p>\n Ville Husso<\/p>\n Scratched: Frank Vatrano, Olen Zellweger<\/p>\n Injured: Radko Gudas (lower body), Jansen Harkins (hand surgery), Ross Johnston (lower body)<\/p>\n Oilers projected lineup<\/p>\n Matthew Savoie — Connor McDavid — Zach Hyman<\/p>\n Vasily Podkolzin — Leon Draisaitl — Kasperi Kapanen<\/p>\n Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — Jason Dickinson — Jack Roslovic<\/p>\n Trent Frederic — Josh Samanski — Curtis Lazar<\/p>\n Mattias Ekholm — Evan Bouchard<\/p>\n Darnell Nurse — Connor Murphy<\/p>\n Jake Walman — Ty Emberson<\/p>\n Connor Ingram<\/p>\n Tristan Jarry<\/p>\n Scratched: Colton Dach, Spencer Stastney<\/p>\n Injured: Adam Henrique (lower body), Mattias Janmark (shoulder), Max Jones (lower body)<\/p>\n Status report<\/p>\n For the fifth straight time, Terry didn’t participate in the Ducks’ morning skate but is expected to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. Secondary scoring With McDavid not at 100 percent and Draisaitl returning for Game 1 after missing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-612321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}