Ducks vs Oilers

4-2 Oilers FINAL

Edmonton walked into this afternoon tilt with Anaheim knowing exactly what these games mean in late March, and they played it with that familiar, coiled urgency. Connor McDavid drove the whole operation again, stacking a goal and two assists as if he were simply keeping the machine warm, and the Oilers built a 3–0 cushion before the Ducks could get their legs under them. 

Matt Savoie kept his heater alive with a third straight game finding the net, and Jack Roslovic chipped in with the kind of depth finish that keeps Edmonton’s pace in the Pacific race honest. The Ducks finally pushed back in the third, cutting it to 3–2, but Connor Ingram’s .935 night and Zach Hyman’s late empty-netter closed the door. nhl.com

Anaheim arrived riding a six‑game point streak, and you could see why in the way they refused to fold. Beckett Sennecke and Cutter Gauthier both struck in quick succession, turning what looked like a quiet afternoon into a brief moment of tension for the home crowd. 

But Edmonton’s structure held, their stars dictated the pace, and their blue line—Evan Bouchard in particular—kept feeding the attack with clean exits and secondary touches. 

It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it was the kind of late‑season win that good teams stack: controlled, opportunistic, and anchored by their best players. 

A word on goaltending

Ingram gave Edmonton exactly the kind of backbone a matinee can lack: calm hands, clean reads, and that unhurried posture that tells the bench they can keep pressing without fear of the cheap one going in behind them. 

His record this season has been one of those quiet, under‑discussed strengths—solid enough to win with, competitive enough to matter, and today he played to that standard again. The Ducks’ late push only sharpened the point: without Ingram’s early stops and his composure through the middle frame, that 3–0 cushion never survives contact with Anaheim’s young legs.

It also changes the narrative weight of the afternoon. Instead of a star‑driven win with a wobble, it becomes a full‑team performance where the goaltender did his part in the spine of the structure. 

McDavid and the scorers stretched the lead, the blue line managed the tempo, and Ingram handled the moments that could have turned the game sideways. That’s the kind of detail that gives a gamer its lived‑in honesty—acknowledging the guy who kept the whole thing from drifting into chaos. 

GAME TIME 

Goaltenders

 Dolstal, Ducks | INGRAM, Oilers 

SCORING

1st Period

  No scoring

2nd Period 

Connor McDavid (42) EDM  M. Jones (2), E. Bouchard (65)

  

3rd Period

 Jack Roslovic (20) EDM Z. Hyman (19), E. Bouchard (66)

Matt Savoie (14) EDM  V. Podkolzin (17), C. McDavid (81)

 

Beckett Sennecke (22) ANA  J. Carlson (43), J. LaCombe (42)

 

Cutter Gauthier (37) ANA  J. Viel (6), J. Carlson (44)

Zach Hyman (31) EN EDM C. McDavid (82), C. Murphy (10)

 SCORE 4-2 OILERS 

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