Edmonton's scoring against Anaheim's goaltending: does the Ducks' power play close the gap?

Edmonton arrives as the clear favourite at -182, and the case rests on a mismatch between the league's top scoring team and one of its leakier defensive ones. Anaheim comes in with momentum and an offence that has been producing, so the question is whether Edmonton's edge in goal outweighs Anaheim's firepower.

Edmonton is 11-2-3 with a 78.1% standings points percentage, rank 1, and scores 4.19 goals per game, rank 1. It allows 3 goals per game, rank 9, and the same 3 per game over its last 10. Anaheim allows 3.8 goals per game, rank 27, and 4.4 per game over its last 10. The widest gap is in net: Anaheim's team save percentage is 86.5%, rank 31, against Edmonton's 89.7%, rank 11. Both samples are small, 15 and 16 games, and save percentage swings quickly, but every defensive measure points the same direction.

Anaheim has answers. It scores 3.6 goals per game, rank 7, and its power play converts at 38%, rank 1. Edmonton's penalty kill is 73.9%, rank 21, so special teams is the clearest route for the visitors. Cutter Gauthier is coming off a second straight hat trick in a 5-4 win over Vancouver and holds the highest posted shots-on-goal line on his team at 3.5. Territory does not favour Anaheim, with a shot share of 47.8%, rank 26, but Edmonton's 48.9%, rank 20, is also weak, so neither side controls play.

The moneyline is Edmonton -182, Anaheim +152, against an opener of Edmonton -185 and Anaheim +155. The sheet calls that movement none of note. Tickets are 92% on Edmonton and money is 98% on Edmonton, yet the price held, so the one-sided support did not change the number. The puck line is fixed at Edmonton -1.5 at +129, with Anaheim +1.5 at -156. The total is 6.5, unchanged from the open, with Over -138 and Under +112.

Recent results give both sides something. Edmonton won the regular-season meeting 5-2 in Anaheim on 2026-10-08, but Anaheim won the postseason games on April 25, April 27 and May 1, with Edmonton taking April 29. Edmonton has covered the spread in four straight and is 11-5 against it this season. Anaheim has gone over the total in five straight and has won three straight road games in division. Edmonton's previous game was a 3-4 road loss, Anaheim's a 5-4 road win, and each has had two days since. Streaks describe what happened and do not predict what comes next.

On availability, Edmonton is without goaltender Devon Levi, on injured reserve and expected to miss a few weeks. Zach Hyman is also on injured reserve and Isaac Howard is out. Anaheim's Troy Terry is on injured reserve and close to playing, though his return does not appear imminent. Starting goalies are not known, which matters because so much of the gap runs through goaltending.