THE Kiss And the EDMONTON Oilers are old after-season enemies, with this first round match marking their 11th meeting in the STANLEY Cup qualifying series. But with Wednesday 6-2 Victory in match 2 of the Best Of-SEVEN SERIESThe kings did something they had never accomplished.
They took a 2-0 lead.
The Kings, who have not yet dragged in the series, obtained two goals from Adrian Kempe and Brandt Clarke, Quinton Byfield, Andrei Kuzmenko and Anze Kopitar, with Clarke, Kuzmenko and Kopitar, all striking on the power game.
Leon Draisaitl and former King Viktor Arvidsson obtained the goals for Edmonton, who was upgraded 12-7 in the two games.
The victory was the 33rd best 33rd of the Kings at home, but now they will go on the road, where they had a loser record this season. Edmonton will host match 3 on Friday and match 4 on Sunday. Match 5, if necessary, will be at Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday.
After winning a shooting of match 1 in which the teams combined for 11 goals – seven in the last 20 minutes 6 seconds – the Kings went to match 2 during the first goal of the Clarke 8:44 playoffs in the first period. And they obtained the help of an unexpected source.
The winger Evander Kane, who made his debut for the season for the Oilers, was only on ice 95 seconds before drawing a verification penalty, giving kings the advantage of man. And Clarke made the Oilers pay, deviating a pass from the old Warren Foegele oil for the objective of the electric game.
Anze Kopitar marks the past of the goalkeeper of the Stuart Skinner in the third period of match 2.
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Byfield then doubled the margin shortly after the first intermission before Kuzmenko was 3-0 with another power game goal in the middle of the second period.
The Kings have scored five times with the advantage of the man in the two games while holding the power game of Edmonton aimless in five trials. During last year's eliminations defeat against the oilers, the Kings were 0 for 12 on the power game and only killed 11 of the 20 EDMONTON POWER games.
Draisaitl obtained Edmonton on the board, marking on a deviation at 1:54 p.m. from the second. It was the second goal of the series for Draisaitl, which led the league with 52 in a shaved season.
Draisaitl's goal in the second period in match 1 helped the Oilers rally from a deficit of 4-0, to lose 6-5. His goal from Match 2 started another rally, and the tip of Arvidsson for four minutes in the third period made a match for a goal.
Kings goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper stops the washer in the third period of match 2.
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But the return is blocked with Kempe and Kopitar responding with goals within three minutes to restore the order. After Kopitar's goal, the Oilers pulled goalkeeper Stuart Skinner and replaced him by Calvin Pickard, who abandoned a goal to Kempe on the first time he faced.
Kempe collected two assists with his two goals while Kopitar collected three passes.
The Kings and Oilers, who meet in the first round for a fourth consecutive season, have separated the first two games each of the last three years before Edmonton won the series. The last time a team won the first two games was in 1990, while Edmonton won four games in a row.
