Kasperi Kapanen netted his second goal of the game with 1:54 left in the third period and the Edmonton Oilers recovered for a 4-3 win against the visiting Anaheim Ducks in Game 1 of a Western Conference first-round series on Monday.
Kapanen scored with a one-timer from the slot off a feed from behind the Anaheim net by Vasily Podkolzin.
Jason Dickinson also scored two goals and Connor Ingram made 24 saves for the Oilers, who gave up three goals in the second period to surrender a 2-0 lead. Podkolzin, Jake Walman and Leon Draisaitl had two assists apiece.
Draisaitl, who had 97 points in 65 games this season, had missed the final 14 games of the regular season with a lower-body injury.
Troy Terry had two goals and an assist, Leo Carlsson added a goal and an assist and Lukas Dostal made 30 saves for the Ducks in their first playoff game in eight years.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Wednesday in Edmonton.
Walman made a blue line-to-blue line stretch pass to Dickinson as he slipped behind rookie defenseman Tyson Hinds, and Dickinson got Dostal to bite on a fake before shooting the puck into the open side of the net for a 1-0 lead at 17:21 of the first.
The Oilers doubled the lead to 2-0 after Ducks forward Chris Kreider turned the puck over coming through the neutral zone. Leon Draisaitl centered the puck to Kapanen, whose initial shot from the high slot was saved by Dostal, but Kapanen knocked down the rebound and shot it in from the side of the crease at 18:21 of the first.
Edmonton outshot Anaheim 5-0 through the first 6 1/2 minutes before finishing with a 14-4 edge in the first period.
The Ducks scored 19 seconds into the second period when a rebound came out diagonally to Terry and he fired it back into the net from the right circle.
The Ducks were unable to capitalize on the first power play of the game, but they scored 19 seconds after it expired. Another rebound came out diagonally, this time to Carlsson, who put it into the net to tie it 2-2 at 4:38 of the middle period.
Anaheim was on its second power play when Terry scored with a wrist shot from above the left circle with help from a screen by Kreider to grab a 3-2 lead at 14:29 of the second period.
Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas lost his footing while defending a rush, allowing Dickinson to score on a rebound and tie it 3-3 at 11:30 of the third.
–Field Level Media
