In Anaheim Wednesday night, the Edmonton Oilers’ Cam Talbot made 26 saves as he posted his fourth shutout of the season in a 4-0 Oilers win over the Ducks.
“My job night in, night out is to make the saves early,” Talbot said. “I think there were a couple early and we got our legs and potted some goals ourselves.”
Cam Talbot picked up 15th NHL shutout in Anaheim – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
That job gets easier with offensive support and solid defensive effort.
Leon Draisaitl had two goals in the win.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zack Kassian also scored for the Oilers who improved to Edmonton 27-15-8 and now sit one point back of the Ducks for the Pacific Division lead.
“They had a higher rate of completing passes and creating scoring chances than we did,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. “But we didn’t play well with the puck. We haven’t done that in a while. We hit some posts, we had a couple of open nets and the chances we did get after two periods, most of them, we didn’t have much of a net presence. We were one and done.”
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John Gibson made 19 saves in loss and Anaheim dropped to 27-15-9.
“It wasn’t like we didn’t have anything going, it was stupid mistakes,” Ducks forward Ryan Kesler said. “We beat ourselves. Obviously we’ve just got to forget about this one and move on.”
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