{"id":563257,"date":"2026-04-30T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/563257\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:33:32","slug":"ducks-host-the-oilers-with-3-2-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/563257\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks host the Oilers with 3-2 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edmonton Oilers<\/a> (41-30-11, in the Pacific Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks<\/a> (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Oilers -132, Ducks +110; over\/under is 7<\/p>\n

NHL<\/a> PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Ducks lead series 3-2<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Anaheim Ducks host the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 3-2 lead in the series. The teams meet Tuesday for the ninth time this season. The Oilers won the previous matchup 4-1. Leon Draisaitl<\/a> scored two goals in the win.<\/p>\n

Anaheim is 43-33-6 overall with an 18-12-1 record against the Pacific Division. The Ducks are 41-13-4 in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n

Edmonton is 18-9-4 against the Pacific Division and 41-30-11 overall. The Oilers have scored 282 total goals (3.4 per game) to rank sixth in NHL play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Beckett Sennecke<\/a> has scored 23 goals with 37 assists for the Ducks. Cutter Gauthier<\/a> has six goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid<\/a> has 48 goals and 90 assists for the Oilers. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> has four goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 5-4-1, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.3 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Oilers: 4-3-3, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.5 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Ducks: Radko Gudas: day to day (lower body), Petr Mrazek: out for season (lower-body), Jansen Harkins<\/a>: out (hand), Ross Johnston<\/a>: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n

Oilers: Adam Henrique<\/a>: day to day (lower-body), Max Jones<\/a>: out (lower-body), Mattias Janmark: out for season (undisclosed).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers (41-30-11, in the Pacific Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (43-33-6, in the Pacific Division) Anaheim, California; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[1586,233,1199,155,511,198,146,5300,56683,5,25748,370,11128,285,4,24,29586,15],"class_list":["post-563257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-edmonton-oilers","tag-adam-henrique","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-beckett-sennecke","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-cutter-gauthier","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-edmontonoilers","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-jansen-harkins","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-max-jones","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-oilers","tag-ross-johnston","tag-ryan-nugent-hopkins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116492972984627701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}