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Lukas Dostal made 46 saves as the Anaheim Ducks stunned the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 Saturday afternoon at Rogers Place.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins pushed in a pinballing puck on the power play to pull the Oilers within one in the last minute of the session. Connor McDavid buried his 28th on a two-man advantage to pull the Oilers even two minutes into the third. The Oilers went on the power play with 3:43 left when Trevor Zegras was nabbed for tripping Tyson Barrie. “It was another odd read for me,” Skinner said. Anaheim scored twice in the final six minutes of the period. “We’ve got to park it and learn from it.

Ryan Strome had a goal and an assist as the Anaheim Ducks stunned the Edmonton Oilers with a 4-3 victory on Saturday afternoon.

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In the final analysis, the Edmonton Oilers did get quacking against the Anaheim Ducks, with the NHL's worst team on the afternoon playbill at Rogers Place…

That is the biggest advantage of having home ice,” said Eakins. The big errors are within our control, and we’ve got clean them up,” said Woodcroft. Draisaitl had four shots on net and four others wide or blocked. “We’ve got a big road trip (Nashville and Dallas) coming up,” said Draisaitl. “It’s frustrating right now, but we can’t hang our heads. “He’s a young D man who’s going through a stretch where simplicity might be his way out of it, rather than complexity,” said Woodcroft. All part of the education of a player in his infancy as an NHL defenceman. defencemen, forwards, and then we’re maybe a little out of position after that where we’re chasing it. Too many times shooting themselves in the foot in a game where only six Ducks’ forwards had shots on Skinner over 60 minutes. Eight minutes into the second period, fellow blueliner Evan Bouchard tried to saucer a pass, ex-Oiler forward Ryan Strome knocked it down and had a breakaway from centre, and beat Stuart Skinner. On Thursday night they fell 4-3 in a shootout to St. Article content

This is becoming the story of the 2022-23 Oilers. It's not that the blueliners are an absolute trainwreck. It's that they make a few glaring mistakes that bite ...

[Cam Fowler](https://theathletic.com/nhl/player/cam-fowler-833ZL2I6sEEH3UVt/)’s power-play goal from distance was the only one that he can truly be faulted on. That necessitated the recall of [Markus Niemelainen](https://theathletic.com/nhl/player/markus-niemelainen-ip9rk4hCoRJmNQgn/), who played just 9:20 and only 1:08 in the third period. It’s a case of the Oilers shooting themselves in the foot, which they seem to be doing too much this season. “I don’t find it positive those errors happened, but I find positives in that game — and we’re going to look to accentuate those positives,” Woodcroft said. The Ducks are fourth-last in the NHL in goals for with 77. “But in the end — we talked about this the other day — individually, we can be better in some situations that are within our control.” Strome intercepted the attempted feed, went in all alone and beat Oilers goalie [Stuart Skinner](https://theathletic.com/nhl/player/stuart-skinner-KlvXBG0WO4nYVVkG/). Add it all up and it’s clear the Oilers are going to need some reinforcements, especially on the left side of their defence. “I got out of the way, way too late.” But as the puck came to Klingberg along the right sideboards, Bouchard wound up standing right in front of Skinner — when there wasn’t another Duck in sight — and screened his goalie. The Oilers had just overcome a two-goal deficit following Bouchard’s error that led to the Strome breakaway marker. It’s that they make a few glaring mistakes that bite them right where it hurts — the scoreboard and the standings.

Sam Carrick, Cam Fowler et John Klingberg ont également fait bouger les cordages pour les Ducks. Darnell Nurse, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins et Connor McDavid ont ...

Darnell Nurse, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins et Connor McDavid ont répliqué pour les Oilers, qui ont perdu trois de leurs quatre dernières sorties. Ryan Strome a récolté un but et une aide pour les Ducks, qui ont remporté un deuxième match de suite. Sam Carrick, Cam Fowler et John Klingberg ont également fait bouger les cordages pour les Ducks.

7. A telling statistic from The Cult of Hockey's David Staples, after Saturday's loss to the lowly Anaheim Ducks: Grade “A” shots, which the Cult has tracked ...

Does Holland wait a while, in expectation that enough or all the under-performers will turn it around…either through maturation, better execution, or both? Sometimes, be it with or without the puck, the biggest danger can come in trying too hard to break out of a slump or make up for a mistake. The Oilers outshot the Ducks 9-2 while he was on the ice at even strength. A 6v4 man advantage multiplies the opportunities you have to retrieve the puck even if you lose the faceoff. And with his 2 assists on Saturday night Draisaitl passed the great Paul Coffey for 6th place in franchise points scored all time. But in fact, with a cap hit of $3m and only one goal scored, I would argue that relative to his pay scale he is hurting them. Also, yep. Yep. Saturday was another Bakersfield loss, 2-0 to Ontario (empty netter). Goaltender Olivier Rodrique keeps giving Bakersfield a puncher’s chance to win some games. But after watching how his skating had improved in Oilers camp, the combination of the two is tantalizing. Article content

That's why they say there's no such thing as a free win in the NHL....

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