Kasperi Kapanen netted his second aim of the sport with 1:54 left within the third interval and the Edmonton Oilers recovered for a 4-3 win towards the visiting Anaheim Geese in Recreation 1 of a Western Convention first-round sequence on Monday.
Kapanen scored with a one-timer from the slot off a feed from behind the Anaheim web by Vasily Podkolzin.
Jason Dickinson additionally scored two objectives and Connor Ingram made 24 saves for the Oilers, who gave up three objectives within the second interval to give up a 2-0 lead. Podkolzin, Jake Walman and Leon Draisaitl had two assists apiece.
Draisaitl, who had 97 factors in 65 video games this season, had missed the ultimate 14 video games of the common season with a lower-body damage.
Troy Terry had two objectives and an help, Leo Carlsson added a aim and an help and Lukas Dostal made 30 saves for the Geese of their first playoff sport in eight years.
Recreation 2 of the best-of-seven sequence is Wednesday in Edmonton.
Walman made a blue line-to-blue line stretch move to Dickinson as he slipped behind rookie defenseman Tyson Hinds, and Dickinson bought Dostal to chunk on a faux earlier than capturing the puck into the open aspect of the web for a 1-0 lead at 17:21 of the primary.
The Oilers doubled the result in 2-0 after Geese ahead Chris Kreider turned the puck over coming by means of the impartial zone. Leon Draisaitl centered the puck to Kapanen, whose preliminary shot from the excessive slot was saved by Dostal, however Kapanen knocked down the rebound and shot it in from the aspect of the crease at 18:21 of the primary.
Edmonton outshot Anaheim 5-0 by means of the primary 6 1/2 minutes earlier than ending with a 14-4 edge within the first interval.
The Geese scored 19 seconds into the second interval when a rebound got here out diagonally to Terry and he fired it again into the web from the fitting circle.
The Geese had been unable to capitalize on the primary energy play of the sport, however they scored 19 seconds after it expired. One other rebound got here out diagonally, this time to Carlsson, who put it into the web to tie it 2-2 at 4:38 of the center interval.
Anaheim was on its second energy play when Terry scored with a wrist shot from above the left circle with assist from a display by Kreider to seize a 3-2 lead at 14:29 of the second interval.
Geese defenseman Radko Gudas misplaced his footing whereas defending a rush, permitting Dickinson to attain on a rebound and tie it 3-3 at 11:30 of the third.
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