Only One Team Here Is Mighty : Hockey: Once-proud Oilers offer little resistance in losing to Ducks for a second time.

The glory days of the Edmonton Oilers are so long gone that the Mighty Ducks’ 4-2 victory Sunday was met with little resistance on the ice and even less protest from the subdued crowd of 12,348 in the Northlands Coliseum.

Two former Oilers helped the first-year Ducks beat Edmonton for the second time this season and the Ducks’ sixth victory overall.

Shaun Van Allen, a prolific minor league scorer for the Oilers who never found a niche in Edmonton, scored his first goal of the season, and goaltender Ron Tugnutt, Edmonton’s backup last year, made 46 saves.

And with that, the Ducks have a club-record winning streak--two games, after back-to-back road victories over Vancouver and Edmonton.

“I guess I want to watch what I say, but it was the easiest game we’ve had to play this year in terms of the physical aspect of it,” Coach Ron Wilson said. “For the most part, I felt our team was very much in control. You look at the shot clock and think, boy, you needed a spectacular effort from the goaltender. I really don’t think that was the case at all.

“You hate to give up 48 shots, but probably 10 of them were from the red line. Instead of dumping it in, they’d just come up and shoot at our goalie.”

The Ducks took leads of 2-0 and 4-1, allowing the Oilers’ second goal by Dean McAmmond on a power play with only 16 seconds left in the game. That ended an impressive streak for a penalty-killing unit that hadn’t allowed a goal on the road in their last 23 short-handed situations, dating back to Oct. 23 at Montreal.

“Our penalty killers had that great streak going and we wanted to keep it intact,” Wilson said, saying he believed replacement referee Bob Best called some unnecessary penalties, but stopping short of complaining, since he won.

Besides Van Allen, the Ducks got goals from Todd Ewen--a career tough-guy who is proving far more versatile, with his fourth of the season and his second in two games--as well as defensemen Sean Hill and Bobby Dollas.

Van Allen, 26, had two 100-point seasons in the minor leagues but only one NHL goal before Sunday.

Hill’s goal came 1:58 into the third period on his own rebound from the slot and gave the Ducks a 3-1 lead after Edmonton had trimmed the difference to one on Craig MacTavish’s goal late in the second.

Dollas, who also had an assist, made it 4-1 in the third after making some deft moves in the slot.

“How about Bobby Dollas? He danced through there like Bobby Orr,” Wilson said. “That might have been one of the prettiest goals I’ve seen from our team this year.”

The Oilers have won an NHL-worst three games this season, but have played better recently. They were a bit tired Sunday, coming off a draining 3-2 loss to Toronto the night before when the Leafs scored with 13 seconds left.

When Van Allen, 26, was drafted in 1987, the Oilers had just won their third Stanley Cup.

“In my first few years, they had quite a team, Gretzky, Messier,” Van Allen said. “I don’t know how many guys are going to beat them out for a position. Then, later on, they were going with more of a younger movement. As you get up there a little bit, they start pushing you aside and giving the younger guys a chance. So they had their decision to make, and they made it, and they’re living with it now.”

Van Allen, 26, had two 100-point seasons in the minor leagues but only one NHL goal before Sunday.

“He was particularly motivated tonight,” Wilson said. “He was very happy to score that goal. It was his first one for us. It’s too bad we gave up that goal at the end or he would have had the game-winner.” Though it was his first goal, Van Allen had eight assists, seven in the last seven games. His defense, Wilson said, has been “impeccable.”

“You put a lot of points up in the minors and the first thing people say about you is you can’t play defense,” Van Allen said. “You know, it’s just generally assumed, anybody who gets a lot of points is not a good defensive player. I’m trying to prove to them I can play in my own end and I’m a pretty good defensive player.”

Duck Notes

Center Anatoli Semenov’s nine-game point streak ended. . . . Extra defenseman Myles O’Connor, who has been on personal leave since Nov. 9, will rejoin the team today in his hometown of Calgary, Coach Ron Wilson said. O’Connor is still recovering from a groin injury and will probably go to minor league San Diego on conditioning assignment before playing.