Jeffrey Viel scored for the Ducks with 6:29 left in the third period, and Anaheim headed to overtime with the Edmonton Oilers in a 3-3 tie in Game 4 of their first-round series Sunday night. Evan Bouchard scored a tiebreaking goal early in the third period during a power play for the two-time defending Western Conference champion Oilers,

Beckett Sennecke and Leo Carlsson score 42 seconds apart in the third period as the Ducks beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-4 in Game 3 to take a 2-1 series lead.

Edmonton captain Connor McDavid recorded his first points of the series in Game 3 with a power-play goal and an assist, but the Oilers struggled with defensive consistency.

NHL star Connor McDavid and top forward Leon Draisaitl were given a breather Saturday while the Edmonton Oilers plotted ways to plug a leaky defence.

Ryan Poehling scored 2:29 into overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks pushed Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers to the brink of first-round elimination with a 4-3 victory in Game 4 on Sunday night.

Connor McDavid & the power play notch their first goal of the playoffs, but the Oilers lose 7-4 to the Ducks in Game 3 on Friday at Honda Center to fall behind two games to one in the series

Those benefits were erased by Edmonton's flailing defence in the face of the speedy, opportunistic Anaheim Ducks in a 7-4 loss on Friday. The Oilers trail 2-1 in their best-of-seven, first-round series against the Ducks,