EDMONTON — It’s still unknown whether the Edmonton Oilers have two more wins over these Anaheim Ducks in them this spring. But the Oilers couldn’t settle this series on Tuesday night anyhow.

They just had to win one to stay alive, and darned if a veteran team didn’t muster up its best game of the series in a tidy 4-1 win on home ice. The win earns Edmonton one more flight to California and one more chance to skirt extinction, down 3-2 to the Ducks in Round 1 of these National Hockey League playoffs, with Game 6 set for The Pond on Thursday night (10 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. MT on Sportsnet).

“I don’t know what it is with us,” said Oilers defenceman Evan Bouchard after a three-assist night. “When our backs are against the wall, we play good hockey, and we did that tonight.

“It shows we’re a good team,” he added. “We know that and we proved it tonight. Good teams find a way to do it multiple times in a row.”

By the 10:13 mark of the opening period Tuesday, the Oilers had scored three times and sent Anaheim starter Lukas Dostal to the showers. And even though the Ducks outshot them........

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