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Oilers’ Connor McDavid will play in Game 5 vs. Ducks
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers, facing elimination, will have Connor McDavid in the lineup.
The NHL’s scoring champion took part in warmups on Tuesday night before Game 5 against the Anaheim Ducks, who hold a 3-1 lead in their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series. The Oilers previously described McDavid’s status as a game-time decision, but he is listed on the official lineup sheet as a starter.
McDavid appeared to injure his ankle in Edmonton’s Game 2 loss after getting tied up with teammate Mattias Ekholm. The Ducks have beaten Edmonton in three consecutive games, and while McDavid has produced points, he’s clearly not at 100 percent. He took what coach Kris Knoblauch called a “maintenance day” on Saturday in Anaheim ahead of Game 4, instead of practicing, and also missed morning skate on Tuesday.
Jason Dickinson, whose availability had been a question, also will be part of the Oilers’ Game 5 roster.
Asked about the state of his health on Sunday, McDavid responded by saying the Oilers “feel we’re all doing the best we can out there.” Cameras have captured him wincing on Edmonton’s bench, his lateral movement has appeared to be lacking and Knoblauch passed on a few different opportunities to downplay the severity of the injury. From Game 2 onward, the Oilers have been outscored 5-2 and outshot 29-22 in McDavid’s five-on-five minutes.
After tightening up for the last 10 games of the regular season, the Oilers are having across-the-board defensive struggles against a younger, faster, offensively dynamic opponent. Anaheim has outscored the Oilers 17-11 over the last three games, outshot them 105-89 and scored five power-play goals. Edmonton, meanwhile, has blown two-goal leads in consecutive games and changed goalies twice, going from Connor Ingram to Tristan Jarry for Game 4 and then reinstalling Ingram for Game 5
“Obviously, injuries are affecting how we’re playing,” Knoblauch said. “Obviously, there’s some, but there’s a lot of teams that have injuries and they still continue to play well. I see some of the things that we’re doing right now weren’t the things that we were doing at the end of the season.
“I don’t think we’ve seen the best out of our group even though there’s some circumstances and some guys that are not 100 percent, but I still think we got a lot more.”
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The Minnesota Lynx’s Olivia Miles was unanimously voted as the WNBA Rookie of the Year, and Cheryl Reeve was named Coach of the Year on Monday. This is Reeve’s fifth time winning the award, the most for any coach in a major American professional league. Miles became the sixth Lynx rookie to win her honor, the most for any franchise.
Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase finished second in voting while Washington Mystics coach Sydney Johnson finished third.
Miles, who set league records for rookie scoring (790 points), the most 20-plus point rookie games (22) and the most 3-pointers by a rookie in a single game (eight), was surprised by her parents at a team dinner.
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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, who presented Miles and Reeve with their awards at the Target Center, said she knew in April when Miles was drafted No. 2 pick that she would be back presenting Miles with the Rookie of the Year trophy at the end of the season.
“I knew when I called your name on draft night I would be standing here,” Engelbert said. “I really did.”
While Engelbert, and many others, might have seen Miles’ nod as ROY coming from a mile away, most could not have have guessed that Reeve would be named Coach of the Year. During an unprecedented free agency and an expansion draft that added two teams, Minnesota’s roster was decimated. Additionally, franchise player Napheesa Collier was set to miss a portion of the season as she recovered from ankle surgery.
However, Reeve led the Lynx to a 33-11 regular-season finish, earning the franchise the No. 1 seed for the playoffs.
“That’s the joy in this: It’s that we didn’t know when we got into this thing. We didn’t know exactly how this was going to end. We never set out and go, ‘Hey, we’re going to be the best team in the league. We’re going to finish first, and we’re going to get all these awards.’ That’s just simply not how it works,” Reeve said. “We get to work every day, and we lock in on our wins for the day. I just want to thank the players for their belief in being here, for their belief in my methods and my madness, all the things that make you guys great, that make us great together.”
Like Miles, Reeve was surprised by family with the award. Her son, Oliver, broke the news to the coach on Monday after the Lynx’s practice.
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