© Robert Hanashiro
For the fourth straight year, the LA Kings will face off against the Edmonton Oilers. For LA, they will be looking to win their first playoff series since 2014. As for the Oil, they will be looking to return to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost Game 7 to the Florida Panthers.
Top Scorers:
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Edmonton
Connor McDavid- 52 G, 54 A
Leon Draisaitl- 26 G, 74 A
Los Angeles
Adrian Kempe- 35 G, 38 A
Anze Kopitar- 21 G, 46 A
Last Ten Games:
Edmonton 7-3-0
Los Angeles 8-2-0
Goalies:
Edmonton
Stuart Skinner- 26-18-4 GAA: 2.81 SV%: .896 SO: 3
Los Angeles
Darcy Kuemper– 50-11-7 GAA: 2.02 SV%: .922 SO: 5
Power play:
Edmonton
23.7% (12th)
Los Angeles
17.9% (27th)
1st Period
We are underway at Crypto!
Foegele looks to get tripped up in the neutral zone but refs keeps their whistles in their pockets.
Tempers flare a bit as Gavrikov drops Arvidsson on his wallet. Playoff hockey.
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Kulak goes off for holding and LA will get their first chance on the power play.
GOAL Andrey Kuzmenko with a backdoor tap in off a feed from Fiala. 1-0 LAK.
Great first opening five minutes from LA.
Not much sustained o-zone time for either side up to this point.
Doughty goes off for cross-checking and the Oilers will get their first crack on the power play.
McDavid buzzing in the shot goes wide. One-timer from Draisaitl eaten up by Kuemper.
Kings kill off Doughty’s minor. Good aggressive PK.
Skinner with a hard shot but Kuemper fights it off.
Boos ringing out whenever Darnell Nurse touches the puck. I wonder what that is all about?
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Spence point shot misses the net.
Oilers starting to cycle in the LA zone.
Hard shot from the slot by Foegele is saved by Skinner.
Ice starting to open up a bit in both directions.
One-timer from Bouchard gloved down by Kuemper.
Wrister from downtown by McDavid easily gloved by Kuemper. Oilers starting to come on a bit now.
Good individual effort from Kuzmenko to find Gavrikov with a one-time from the point, but’s its blocked on its way in.
Kuzmenko tried to find Kempe in the slot but his pass is blocked.
Guys are getting blown up all over the ice right now.
GOAL Quinton Byfield! Bats the puck in off of Skinner’s backside. LAK 2-0.
END OF 1st PERIOD
Great start from LA. They capitalize off their first PP opportunity and kill off the Oilers’ only PP chance. Added a late even-strength goal from Byfield to go up 2-0. Shots and scoring chances pretty even. Big missed call as Laferriere is boarded in the neutral zone right in front of the ref. Couldn’t tell you what he was looking at.
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Shot on goal
Edmonton 6
Los Angeles 8
