Wilson Speechless After Duck Loss : Hockey: He has no time for questions after 3-1 setback to Oilers stretches team’s winless streak to nine games.

Mighty Duck Coach Ron Wilson answered one postgame question, grew impatient waiting for a second and walked away from reporters.

His disgust seemed misdirected, but perhaps Wilson was merely sticking to Sunday’s theme at The Pond of Anaheim.

The Ducks misfired so often in a 3-1 loss to Edmonton that it was difficult to identify their good scoring chances, what with all those pucks flying here and there.

The bottom line was this: The loss extended the Ducks’ winless streak to a team-record nine in a row (0-6-3).

Wilson didn’t stick around long enough to provide much insight on the matter, but the Ducks certainly seemed out of kilter at both ends Sunday.

What he did say, in part, was this:

“We were trying too hard to make the fancy plays. We had some bad luck at key moments. We hit a couple of posts.”

And in a flash, he was gone, saying: “I guess that’s it,” while reporters were still scribbling in their notebooks.

Wilson was correct on both points, but any further elaboration was left to the players.

“We hit two crossbars and one post,” Duck center Mike Sillinger said. “If one goes in, it’s a different story. A lot of [Ducks] had point-blank chances. If we get a bounce, it’s a different story. They [the Oilers] got a couple of breaks and we couldn’t buy anything.”

The first Oiler bounce happened about a minute into the game and the Ducks never recovered.

Edmonton’s Luke Richardson poked the puck off the stick of Duck winger Todd Krygier, and Kent Manderville, an Oiler for all of a week, pounced on it, skated in alone against Mikhail Shtalenkov and scored his first goal since April 5, 1994, when he was with Toronto.

“Richardson’s got a long stick,” Krygier said. “He made a good play and we got caught heading the wrong way.”

Manderville, obtained in a trade with the Maple Leafs last Monday, set up Scott Thornton for the Oilers’ second goal, 1:29 into the second. Manderville took off on another breakaway, but was stopped by a sprawling Shtalenkov. Thornton outskated Duck defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky to the rebound and beat a helpless Shtalenkov.

Jason Arnott scored an empty-net goal with 32 seconds left, to ensure the Oilers of their first three-game road winning streak since 1989-90, when they won the last of their five Stanley Cups.

“This is a huge victory for us,” Arnott said. “Three in a row for this hockey team is big. When 25 guys on this club put their heads together and play smart we can win.”

Edmonton goalie Bill Ranford continued his dominance over the Ducks until Sillinger finished a rush down the left wing with a well-placed shot just inside the right goalpost.

That goal ended Ranford’s 91:01 shutout streak against the Ducks, dating to the Oilers’ 2-0 victory on Nov. 22. The winless streak started that night at Edmonton and Ranford made sure it kept rolling Sunday.

“Three in a row on the road is huge,” said Ranford, who stopped 32 of 33 shots. “It’s definitely something to build on.”

Sillinger’s goal gave the Ducks a bit of life, but it was only a temporary lift. They swiftly returned to their out-of-sync brand of hockey.

Even the simplest of passes were picked off or went skidding away from the intended targets.

And the power play?

In a word: brutal.

The Ducks went into the game with the league’s worst power play, converting on 19 of 161 chances (11.8%). By game’s end, the Ducks tacked a 0-for-4 performance on top of that.

And to think, Ranford and the Oilers were ripe for the picking, having defeated the San Jose Sharks, 4-2, Saturday night.

The Ducks, off since tying Florida, 3-3 Thursday in Miami, had no such excuse available to lean on Sunday.