Ducks even series seconds into OT
Jakob Silfverberg scored 45 seconds into overtime, lifting the visiting Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 4 of their second-round playoff series Wednesday night.
Ryan Getzlaf set up the winning score and finished with two goals and two assists. Rickard Rakell also scored for Anaheim, which has won two in a row after dropping the first two games of the series at home.
Drake Caggiula, Connor McDavid and Milan Lucic scored for Edmonton, and Cam Talbot had 35 saves.
Game 5 is Friday night, back in Southern California.
Anaheim had a 3-2 lead before Caggiula snapped a rebound over John Gibson’s head at 18:18 of the third. It was the rookie’s first career playoff point.
Gibson finished with 29 saves.
Edmonton led 2-0 after the opening period on goals from Lucic and McDavid.
Penguins 3, Capitals 2: Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 36 shots and rookie Jake Guentzel took advantage of a fortunate bounce to earn his leagueleading eighth goal of the playoffs, and the defending Stanley Cup champions held off visiting Washington in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Justin Schultz scored in a second straight game and Patric Hornqvist picked up his third of the postseason as Pittsburgh took a 3-1 lead in the series. The Penguins played without injured star Sidney Crosby, who is out indefinitely with a concussion suffered in Game 3. Evgeny Kuznetsov and Nate Schmidt scored for the Capitals. Braden Holtby finished with 15 saves.