Savoie pushed it to 3-0 at 6:10 after taking a cross-crease pass from Vasily Podkolzin and stuffing it glove side past Dostal from in tight.
“My confidence is definitely high right now,” said Savoie, who has been promoted to the top line in the shuffle to fill the void left by Leon Draisaitl’s regular-season-ending lower-body injury. “It helps seeing the puck go in, and I’m getting lots of opportunities right now with some pretty good players, obviously. A really good play by (McDavid) to get that to ‘Podz’, and Podz makes an unbelievable play to get me open net. So, I’m just trying to capitalize and get myself in good spots.
“I think we’re playing an intense style right now, closing quick in the D-zone, not giving them easy looks inside. I think it’s just the intensity that we’re playing with right now, and that’s playoff style.”
Sennecke cut it to 3-1 at 6:53, tipping a wrist shot from the point by Carlson through Ingram’s legs.
Gauthier made it 3-2 at 9:41, taking a pass from behind the net by Jeffrey Viel, following another point shot from Carlson, and snapping it into open space stick side behind Ingram.
“It definitely got a little tighter than it needed to; we were playing such a great game up until those two goals,” Oilers forward Jason Dickinson said. “I wear those on my shoulder, they’re going to bug me, but the fact that we were able to stick with it and just get back to defending hard and advancing pucks to keep them from sustaining the zone, that’s good.
“I think guys can feel that’s a recipe for success, sticking with the process and just keep pouring it on them. It creates a feeling of rhythm for the group that you can keep going instead of getting into a rush game where it’s back and forth with turnovers at each blue line and you’re not getting any flow to the game.”
Hyman scored into an empty net on a pass from McDavid with 17 seconds remaining for the 4-2 final.
NOTES: McDavid pushed his point streak to four games (five goals, four assists) and leads the NHL with 31 goals since Dec. 1. McDavid (1,206 career points) is five points shy of tying Mario Lemieux (1,211) for the second-most career points before age 30, behind Wayne Gretzky (2,072). … Ducks forward Mikael Granlund’s four-game goal streak ended (seven goals). … Carlson pushed his assist streak to three games (seven assists). … Bouchard recorded his 65th assist of the season, marking a new single-season career high. Paul Coffey (four times) is the only other Oilers defenseman to record 65 or more assists in a single campaign. Bouchard also extended his point streak to four games (one goal, seven assists).
