ANAHEIM – For the first time in three years, the Edmonton Oilers will not be seeing a Stanley Cup final.
The Oilers were eliminated Thursday night thanks to a 5-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series.
Edmonton hasn’t lost a playoff series outside of the Stanley Cup final since falling in the second round to Vegas in 2022-23. The Oilers lost to Florida the last two seasons in the Cup final.
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Meanwhile, this is Anaheim’s first playoff appearance since 2017-18. The Ducks’ last playoff series win was against Edmonton in 2016-17.
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Anaheim will next play the winner between the Vegas Golden Knights and Utah Mammoth. Vegas leads that series 3-2, with Game 6 to be played on Friday.
The Oilers entered Thursday’s game coming off a 4-1 home win in Game 5 on Tuesday after the Ducks rattled off three straight wins to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 30, 2026.
For the the 36th time in the last 36 years the oilers failed to win a Stanley cup. This is largely due to the owner and manager believing forwards win games on their own and not investing in goalkeeping and defenders
well, another ousting for the Oilers. this one early. The team deserves credit for their close to two stanley cup final runs. maybe one day their head coach will learn this lesson. The cagey old coach for the Ducks knows this. play 4 lines. Yes yes Mcdavid is the best player in the leaque. But, against this team, he was only slightly above average out there. and playing him and Drisaityl 27 minutes a game gets you minimal results from these two hockey giants. disppointing to see them out, but, they were out coached and outplayed.
Why oh why do coaches continue to pull their goalies in the dying minutes of a game? This stupid play NEVER works and just gives the opposing team more goals. Every time.
Don’t worry Stan will buy more forwards. That will fix the defense and keeping issues won’t it.
No big surprise.
The seats are packed even on days when game was played somewhere else.
Why would the management feel any need to improve the yo yo of a team?