Oilers down Ducks with 4 goals in 3rd

Adam Larsson scored his second goal of the third period with 4:40 to play, and the visiting Edmonton Oilers blew a two-goal lead in a wild third period before beating the Anaheim Ducks 5-3 on Wednesday night in their second-round playoff series opener.

Mark Letestu scored two power-play goals and Cam Talbot made 33 saves for the Oilers, who seized home-ice advantage from the Ducks with a four-goal final period. Anaheim didn’t give up a third-period goal during its entire first-round sweep of Calgary.

Jakob Silfverberg scored the tying goal with 9:13 to play in regulation for the Ducks, who lost in regulation for the first time in 19 games since March 10.

Larsson scored just four goals in his first 85 games this season, but the Swedish defenseman improbably got two goals in 7½ minutes.

Game 2 is Friday night in Anaheim.

Predators 4, Blues 3: P.K. Subban had a goal and two assists and Vernon Fiddler scored with 5:05 left, sending visiting Nashville to a win over St. Louis in Game 1 of their second-round series. The Predators lost Kevin Fiala to an ugly leg injury in the second period, and blew a 3-1 lead before Fiddler poked a loose puck past Blues goalie Jake Allen in the third. Colin Wilson and Filip Forsberg also scored for Nashville, and Pekka Rinne made 27 saves. Colton Parayko, Jaden Schwartz and Vladimir Sobotka scored for St. Louis. Allen finished with 28 stops. Game 2 is Friday night.

Coaching moves: The Vancouver Canucks named Travis Green their new head coach. Green spent the past four seasons coaching the Canucks’ top farm team, the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League. He replaces Willie Desjardins, who was fired after three seasons in Vancouver . ... Boston will bring back Bruce Cassidy as head coach, dropping the interim tag from his title as a reward for leading the team to the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. He replaced Claude Julien on Feb. 8.

Briefly: Dallas forward Tyler Seguin had surgery to repair the labrum in his right shoulder and should be ready for training camp in September . ... Toronto’s Mike Babcock, Edmonton’s Todd McLellan and Columbus’ John Tortorella are the finalists for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL coach of the year.