Preview: Ducks Begin Weekend Back-to-Back Tonight in Edmonton

The Ducks will take the ice for the front half of an Albertan back-to-back tonight, facing off with the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place.
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Anaheim will look to get back on track tonight after suffering its sixth straight regulation loss Thursday in a 4-1 setback at Seattle. The Ducks cut into a two-goal deficit late in the middle frame with Brock McGinn's second goal as a Duck, but could not find a third-period equalizer on the road.
"I've been so proud of this group during an adverse year," head coach Dallas Eakins said. "We've bent a few times, but never broken. They continue to have great attitudes. We just have some amazing young men here."
The Ducks did struggle to generate offense against the playoff-bound Kraken with the absence of the club's top-three forwards, Adam Henrique, Troy Terry and Trevor Zegras. Only Zegras is on the trip with the team, and his status remains day-to-day.
McGinn, along with linemates Jakob Silfverberg and Derek Grant, provided that lone goal with a hard-working forecheck and a nice finish off a low-to-high pass by Grant.

"Grant made a great pass to me there," McGinn said. "[The Kraken] have good [defensive] gaps, so when we get the chance to put it behind them, we did a good job there. Granter made a good play and I was able to sneak it in."
The goal was McGinn's second as a Duck and his third point in 12 games since the trade deadline deal. McGinn's 12 goals on the season also matched the second-best total of his eight-year NHL career.
The Ducks will hit the midway point of a three-game road trip tonight, hoping to play the spoiler role to an Oilers team desperately chasing down a division title.
Edmonton has points in nine straight games (6-0-3), including wins over Vegas and Los Angeles in there last two contests.
"That's the type of game you have to play against this team, we know that," Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft told NHL.com "We've seen a lot of them here over the last 14 or 15 months, and you have to have a lot of patience and endurance to your game. It's understanding the way they want the game to be played and trying to negate some of their strengths and waiting for opportunities to present themselves without forcing anything."
As in any game against the Oilers, the Ducks will have to try to contain the explosive duo of Connor McDavid and Leon Drasaitl as much as possible.
McDavid, a four-time Art Ross Trophy winner and two-time MVP, again leads the NHL in scoring and recently became just the second player in the last decade to score 60 goals in a season. The Oilers' captain ranks fourth all-time in points per game. Draisaitl ranks second in points among NHL leaders, trailing only McDavid, and could join Alex Ovechkin as the only players to post consecutive 50-goal seasons in the last 20 years. Draisaitl also owns a seven-game scoring streak against the Ducks.
McDavid scored his 300th career NHL goal Thursday against the Kings and became the first player in NHL history with five 10-game point streaks in a single season, passing Wayne Gretzky (four times, 1986-87).
The Oilers (44-23-9, 97 points) sit second in the Pacific Division, two points back of the first-place Golden Knights.