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“It's fine,” McDavid said. "I just rolled up on it a little
bit.”
Game 3 is Friday night in Anaheim. Edmonton opened the series
Monday night with a 4-3 victory.
“We’ve been in this situation a lot, 1-1 going on the road,”
McDavid said. “We’re comfortable on the road, we like playing on
the road. Obviously, we’d like a better outcome tonight and a
better product tonight, but we’re comfortable going on the
road.”
Gauthier put the Ducks back in front after Josh Samanski —
making his playoff debut — tied it at 4 with 6:09 to go. Ryan
Poehling put it away with an empty-netter with 1:10 left, his
second goal of the game. He scored short-handed in the second.
“We have the confidence,” Gauthier said. “All season long when
games have been tied and we’ve been down goals, we’ve been in
some high-pressure moments.”
Gauthier also scored on a first-period power play and set up
Alex Killorn's second-period goal on a man advantage. Killorn
added two assists.
“That’s kind of been the way we’ve been the entire year,”
Killorn said. “It’s stressful playing that way. I think we’re
getting used to it, but I think we’d like to be a little bit
better with the lead and hold on to some of those leads. But the
resiliency in this group is pretty phenomenal.”
Jacob Trouba added a goal, fellow defenseman Jackson LaCombe had
three assists and Lukas Dostal stopped 33 shots.
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist for Edmonton. He
returned for Game 1 from a lower-body injury against Nashville
on March 15.
Connor Murphy and Zach Hyman also scored for the Oilers, and
Connor Ingram made 22 saves.
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