Suddenly, for the Edmonton Oilers, everything might be falling apart vs. Ducks

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A few minutes after his Edmonton Oilers officially ceded control of their first-round playoff series to the Anaheim Ducks, Kasperi Kapanen was asked how they could get it back.Anaheim had beaten Edmonton 7-4 in Game 3, the kind of score often prefaced with “it was closer than it looked.” To say that about Friday’s game would be dishonest — the Ducks, from the moment they stepped through a neon-piped gate onto the ice at Honda Center, looked younger, faster and starving. Speed, if you were boil it all down, was the primary issue. There, the Oilers had no counter and no containment. So, the question went to Kapanen, how do you deal with that?He responded with an 18-second-long list.Advertisement