Music: {allcanada} Ducks clinch Pacific Division with win vs. Oilers

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

{allcanada} Ducks clinch Pacific Division with win vs. Oilers

ANAHEIM -- The Anaheim Ducks clinched their third straight Pacific Division title with a 5-1 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Honda Center on Wednesday.

Jakob Silfverberg had a career-high three assists and Corey Perry scored his team-leading 33rd goal this season and 600th NHL point for the Ducks (50-22-7), who reached 50 wins for the second straight season and restored the League lead with 107 points.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for the Oilers (23-41-13), who had their three-game win streak end.

Silfverberg set up two goals to give Anaheim a 2-0 lead before the first intermission. He fed Nate Thompson in the slot after Edmonton defenseman Justin Schultz lost the puck behind the net at 9:59 of the first period.

Earlier in the game, Silfverberg grabbed the puck along the wall and passed to defenseman Francois Beauchemin, who skated in and beat Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens with a wrist shot at 3:43 of the first for his career-high 11th goal.

Perry made it 3-0 at 8:33 of the second. He batted in his own rebound in mid-air after his initial shot was blocked by Oilers defenseman Keith Aulie. Defenseman Simon Despres scored his first goal with the Ducks on a quick shot from the left perimeter at 12:06 of the second.

Andrew Cogliano scored his first NHL penalty-shot goal at 5:14 of the third after Oilers defenseman Oscar Klefbom slashed him on a breakaway. Cogliano made a quick stickhandle move and beat Scrivens high on a snap shot.

Nugent-Hopkins ended Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen's shutout bid at 17:05 of the second when he converted Jordan Eberle's pass in transition. Nugent-Hopkins has five goals in seven games.

Ducks center Ryan Kesler was scratched to rest a reported arm injury. He had played in every game this season. Left wing Matt Beleskey (lower body) also did not play.

Beauchemin passed Oleg Tverdovsky for the second-most assists (126) among defensemen in Ducks history.