Overview
- The matchup moves to Honda Center for Game 3 on Friday night after Anaheim’s 6-4 win in Edmonton evened the series 1-1.
- Edmonton’s top-ranked regular-season power play is 0-for-6 so far, while Anaheim has gone 3-for-5 on the man advantage and also scored short-handed.
- Connor McDavid is scoreless through two games and said the power play needs to finish chances, as coach Kris Knoblauch said the captain is putting pressure on himself.
- Oilers goalie Connor Ingram has faced 55 shots and allowed eight goals across the first two games, with one analysis noting he made the pivotal robbery in Game 1 but lacked a momentum-saving stop in Game 2.
- Game 3 looms large because teams that lead 2-1 win the series nearly 70% of the time, and in the McDavid era Edmonton has not lost a playoff series when it wins Game 3.