EDMONTON — The Anaheim Mighty Ducks crawled off their deathbed Thursday to deliver a beating to the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL Western Conference final series.

Dustin Penner and Joffrey Lupul each scored twice as the Ducks blitzed the Oilers with a record 25 first-period shots, along with three goals, and never looked back en route to a 6-3 victory.

The Oilers lead the best-of-seven series three games to one. Game 5 goes Saturday in Anaheim (9 p.m. ET).

Ryan Getzlaf and Ruslan Salei also scored for Anaheim, while Ryan Smyth, Georges Laraque and Marc-Andre Bergeron replied for Edmonton.

Ducks' goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 20 saves for the win in his first start since being pulled for Ilya Bryzgalov in Game 5 of the round-one series against Calgary.

Giguere looked mortal. He allowed three goals on his first nine shots, but managed to better his playoff record to three wins and two losses.

Oilers goaltender Dwayne Roloson made 40 saves but saw his record fall to 11-5.

The Ducks also broke their millennium goose egg in Edmonton. They had not won a game in the Alberta capital since Feb. 24, 1999.

The Ducks came at Roloson in waves in the first period, walking in and firing at will against a rock-ribbed Oilers defence that had suddenly become as porous as a soaker hose.

The purple and jade took their first lead of the game - and the series - at 7:28, when winger Teemu Selanne swooped in front of the net and passed the puck through the crease. It ricocheted off the skate of Oilers defenceman Jaroslav Spacek and into the net. Winger Dustin Penner was credited with the goal.

Penner scored again at 15:11, taking a pass in the corner from Selanne and firing the puck through traffic under Roloson's pads.

The third came on a 5-on-3, one of four two-man advantages the Ducks had on the night. Andy McDonald zipped the puck through the slot for a one-timer by Getzlaf.

The 25 shots were the most the Oilers had ever allowed in a playoff period (The old record was 20 versus Vancouver in 1992; the most against the Oilers in any single period ever was 29 by Detroit in 1979).

The Oilers saw their seven-game playoff win streak snapped and absorbed only their second post-season loss this spring at Rexall Place.

Bergeron, Laraque and Smyth all scored in the second period.

Bergeron fired a one-timer over Giguere's glove from the faceoff circle on a 5-on-3 power play about three minutes in. Smyth scored on a tip-in four minutes after that.

Laraque scored his first playoff goal in over three years at the midway point when he corralled a Chris Pronger point shot in the slot, moved around a sprawling Giguere to score, then raced to the corner and launched himself headlong into the Plexiglas as the 16,839 fans roared in delight.

Anaheim managed to stay ahead in the second on a Salei point-shot goal and a late marker by Lupul, who jumped on a faceoff scramble to the left of Roloson to fire the puck over the goalie's short-side shoulder.

Lupul scored the only goal of the third period into an empty net with just over a minute left.

The Oilers, with as many as 10 players battling the flu bug, are the first eighth-place seed to advance to the conference final. They are trying to get back to the Stanley Cup final for the first time in 16 years.

The Ducks still face long odds. Only two teams in NHL history have come back to win after being three games down in a series - the '42 Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings and the '75 Pittsburgh Penguins were bounced by the New York Islanders.

The Ducks lost the first two games of the series by identical 3-1 scores before the teams lit each other up for a combined total of nine goals in Game 3.

The Ducks were down 4-0 in the third period until they managed to get to the previously superlative Roloson. They scored three goals in four minutes only to have their comeback fall short in a 5-4 loss.

They picked up where they left off Thursday, forcing Oilers fans, if nothing else, to put away their brooms.

Notes: Giguere was called on after Bryzgalov self-destructed in Game 3 by allowing five goals on 22 shots. . . . For the second consecutive game, singer Paul Lorieau surrendered his microphone to the crowd, who belted out the Canadian national anthem. . . . The Oilers had two familiar faces return to the lineup. Shifty winger Radek Dvorak came back after being out since the first game of the San Jose series with a sprained knee. Forward Raffi Torres returned after missing two games. He had been the worst of the team's flu victims.