Los Angeles – Phillip Danault scored his second goal with 41 seconds to play, and the Kings blew an advance of four goals before joining a 6-5 victory against Edmonton’s Oilers at the opening of the fourth series of consecutive playoffs of the teams on Monday evening in Crypto.com Arena.
The Kings led 5-3 in the last minutes before Zach Hyman and Connor McDavid equalized it with an additional attacker. The Kings have improbably answered, Danault skating in the middle and launching a floating at home while a Foegele goalkeeper jumped Stuart Skinner.
Match 2 of the seven best series is Wednesday evening in Crypto.com Arena.
They led the match 4-0 at 39:55 of the match, offering a solid punch at the mouth of the team that eliminated them in each of the last three seasons. The Kings even dominated the battle of the special teams, marking twice with the additional man and allowing nothing in digital disadvantage, but they had to repel a late rally of five goals in 20:05, two of which in a period of 36 seconds, from Edmonton.
Danault’s second goal turned out to be the winner of the match. Andrei Kuzmenko and Adrian Kempe had totals with a goal and two assists. Kevin Fiala and Quinton Byfield each marked and added aid. Darcy Kuemper stopped 20 shots during his first departure in playoffs since the Stanley Cup rising with Colorado in 2022.
Captain of Edmonton McDavid had a goal and three assists. Leon Draisaitl and Corey Perry had a goal and help each. Mattias Janmark completed and Evan Bouchard had three aids. Stuart Skinner made 24 stops.
The Kings, who have a home advantage for the first time in these four consecutive series against the Oilers, struck twice during each of the first two periods and competed in the complete control of the Edmonton game in the second, going only with five seconds to do.
It only took 2:49 from this year series for the Kings to score more electricity games than they did in the five qualifying games last season. Rightly, it was Kuzmenko, commercial negotiations that has become an offensive catalyst. The Kings five kicks overwhelmed the oilers to the point that the Fiala sewing pass could have passed Skinner by Byfield almost as easily as by Kuzmenko to the rear post.
Byfield did 2-0 when he struck Drew Doughty’s shot out of the air with his glove and shoved it to the net, where he embarrassed Skinner’s back house with 33 seconds.
The Kings’ shots removal game, fueled by Vladislav Gavrikov, but advanced by practically all skaters, stopped late in the first period, entering the second, when they hit twice more.
At 2:47 p.m., Bouchard’s compensation attempt in Teddy Ruxpin was engulfed by Kempe, who almost marked without help. Instead, he had to wait for recovery and Kuzmenko’s flow for a goal that sent the Swedish to jump on the ice with his tongue like Michael Jordan.
Bouchard served another pizza, this time for Byfield in the slit. He slipped the a few centimeters to Danault, whose wrist shot did 4-0. Byfield and Fiala had applied the forecast pressure to enter the sequence.
The oilers went 16 minutes with a shot to the goal and had only 10 to 40 minutes, but their 10th put them on the board with 4.7 seconds showing on the second period clock. McDavid pivoted hard on Ane Kopitar to force a brutal defensive rotation, opening Draisaitl for a single anial of the right circle. McDavid and Draisaitl have 74 points in 19 playoffs against the Kings in four seizure stations.
Edmonton obtained another goal off the strike effort of Janmark 2:19 in the third period.
After Hyman illegally checked Brandt Clarke in the head and Jake Walman overlooked Danault in the face, the Kings had an advantage of two and their second power game objective of the night. It was Kempe serving a time as a fiala high in the right circle. Kempe and Kuzmenko, who had secondary assistance, both obtained their third point of the night.
This objective turned out to be even more critical when McDavid made another game on a powerful turn, this time shaking Gavrikov and sliding the washer for Perry’s redirection at 7:43 am.
Edmonton quickly found himself faced with another disadvantage of two people, this time for two minutes after Walman pulled the game of the game and the Oilers lost a later challenge. Although the kings suffered pressure for 90 seconds, they did not extend their edge.
McDavid made things even more interesting when he woven in the slit and slipped the washer in front of a paste subject to Hyman to do it 5-4 with 2:04 on the left.
Then McDavid did himself, driving the net and punctuating the washer in front of Kuemper to attach the scoring with 1:28 on the left.
With imminent overtime, a Kings counterattack launched by Gavrikov and Trevor Moore found a danault dragging for a clean look at the net with 41.1 seconds to make won the match.
More to come to this story.
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