"There's no panic," Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler said Saturday. "There's obviously a sense of urgency. You never like to work so hard to establish home ice and then lose the first two in your own building. But there's still a lot of series left."
The Ducks outshot the Oilers 40-23 in Game 2, but Fowler said frustration is not building. He said the Ducks are focusing on what they can do to change the momentum of the series.
"A lot of it depends on how you react to those things," he said. "It'd be easy for us to come in after [Friday] night's game and be frustrated with the outcome, frustrated with one another, just frustrated with the situation that we're in. I don't get the sense from the group is feeling that way right now."
Patrick Eaves said the Ducks eventually will get the bounces if they keep following their game plan, creating traffic in front.
"We've hit a bunch of posts here -- it seems like we've hit the inside of the post a couple of times too," he said. "They're playing well defensively, their goalie is playing well and we just have to find a way through that. We're doing a lot of good things. I think we're playing better this series than we did against [the] Calgary [Flames]."
Ducks coach Randy Carlyle's personnel-management skills have been getting tested during the playoffs. Injuries and illness have forced him to piece the lineup together, often on the fly.
Forward Nick Ritchie was a late scratch for Game 2 because of flu-like symptoms. So a forward with 28 points (14 goals, 14 assists) in the regular season had to be replaced by an enforcer.
Ritchie, who had been playing on a line with center Ryan Getzlaf and Eaves, was replaced by Jared Boll, who had not played in a postseason game since April 28, 2014, with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The illness apparently hit Ritchie at the last minute.
