The Anaheim Ducks continued their winning ways Tuesday night in Edmonton with a 5-3 win over the Oilers.
David Perron, Jakob Silfverberg and Hampus Lindholm scored for the Ducks and Andrew Cogliano and Corey Perry added empty-net goals for the Ducks.
“I think we had some errors, but overall, playing Edmonton at home where they’ve been playing pretty well lately, we did a good job to hold them to three goals and we were able to get the win,” Lindholm said. “That’s how road games are sometimes, you have to dig deep and play hard and we did that.”
Corey Perry’s empty-netter finally sealed win in Edmonton – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
The Ducks are now within three points of the Los Angeles Kings who have not done as well as expected on their road trip; the Kings lost 3-1 in Washington Tuesday.
“I think the last couple of times we’ve been tied in the second, we’ve been able to step it up a little bit and get enough for the win,” Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. “When you can do that, that’s a real positive sign going forward. I think we couldn’t do that at the beginning [of the year], once a team got a goal up on us, we weren’t very good.”
The road has been kind to the Ducks on this trip; they are 4-1-1 and end the trip with a visit to Vancouver.
“I think in the end we’re just happy to be leaving with two points,” Perron said. “It was kind of a weird game. We couldn’t get into a rhythm and it’s a little frustrating on the bench with all those delays. That’s why we’re happy, we’ll take the two points, move on. In the end, those are huge points for us.”
Leon Draisaitl, Taylor Hall and Benoit Pouliot scored for the Oilers.
“If you just count the non-empty-net goals, that’s a tie game,” Hall said. “I thought we had a pretty good effort. I thought all our lines contributed, our power play was really good tonight. Definitely, there were some good things against a really good team.”
Frederik Andersen made 24 saves fort win over Oilers – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Frederik Andersen made 24 saves for the win.
“They’re probably the best team in our conference since the (Christmas) break,” Hall said. “I thought we fought through a lot of things really well. Teams like that, we can sometimes turn pucks over and play into their hands, but we held our cool tonight and I thought we deserved at least a point.”
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