Ducks Stay Alive, Beat Oilers

Ducks 6, Oilers 3

The Mighty Ducks' Todd Marchant, center, celebrates his first period goal with teammates Dustin Penner, left, and Teemu Selanne. (Paul Chiasson - AP)

EDMONTON, Alberta -- With the offense clicking like this, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks probably would've stayed alive in the Western Conference finals no matter who was protecting their goal.

Dustin Penner and Joffrey Lupul scored twice and the Mighty Ducks extended the series by beating Edmonton 6-3 on Thursday night.

They will return home to Anaheim for Game 5 on Saturday night still facing long odds. The Mighty Ducks cut the Oilers' series lead to 3-1 but know that only two NHL teams have dug out of an 0-3 hole to win.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere was in goal, making his first start since April 29 _ a span of nine games. He stopped 20 shots and helped snap the Oilers' seven-game winning streak.

The Mighty Ducks, who had only six goals in the opening three losses, took a 3-0 lead in the first period when Penner scored twice and fellow rookie Ryan Getzlaf also tallied.

"I don't know if you could go through our lineup and find a guy who didn't do something great for our team," Ducks captain Scott Niedermayer said. "It's what you need at this time of year."

Marc-Andre Bergeron got Edmonton on the board early in the second period, but Anaheim defenseman Ruslan Salei made it 4-1 less than 2 minutes later.

Edmonton got within one goal when Ryan Smyth and Georges Laraque scored in the second period, but Lupul made it 5-3 with only 1:38 left in the frame and then added an empty-netter in the final seconds of the game to seal the win.

Dwayne Roloson allowed five goals on 40 shots and lost for the first time since Game 2 of Edmonton's second-round series against San Jose. He is 11-5 in these playoffs.

The Oilers won the final four of that matchup to eliminate the Sharks, and then took the first three from Anaheim, which had lost 13 straight at Edmonton. The Ducks hadn't won there since Feb. 24, 1999.

Giguere hadn't started since he was replaced by rookie Ilya Bryzgalov in Game 5 of the first-round series against Calgary. He showed some rust in allowing three goals on the first nine shots he faced, but was good enough to improve to 3-2 in this postseason.

"It was pretty hard. It's been a month since I played," Giguere said. "I'm just happy that I was able to go through and that we got the win."