Zach Hyman,, Leon Draisaitl And Connor McDavid were three of the most dangerous scorers in the NHL regular season, combining 127 goals and 315 points for Edmonton's Oilers. Stop one of them is a challenge, stopping the three is almost impossible.
THE Kiss I certainly did not find a way to do it, with Hyman, Draisaitl and McDavid combining for five goals and three assists on Friday in a 6-1 Oilers win In match 3 of their eliminatory series of the Western Conference which gave Edmonton an advance of 2-1 in the best of seven games that the trio dominated.
The defeat was only the fifth of the last 19 Kings games in Crypto.com Arena, but it could prove to be the most expensive because it swung the momentum of the series to Edmonton and a neutralized ice ice advantage if the series spends seven games.
The way Hyman, Draisaitl and McDavid have played, it seems unlikely.
“These are good players. They have done so for a long time, ”said Kings Coach Kings Jim Hiller said. “They are doing quite well. They run at a high level. “
Executing so well, Edmonton has outlined the Kings 17-10 in the series.
“It's two for them, one for us. And you have to win four in the series,” said Hiller. “We will have to play better than this evening.”
The trio of Edmonton combined for 10 goals and 13 assists in the series. On Friday, three of the goals occurred in the first period, burying the kings in a hole that they could never go out.
Hyman scored less than seven minutes after the start of the match after a gift from defender Drew Doughty was possible. After a game, Mattias Ekholm from Edmonton jumped on a lazy backyard from Doughty near the Kings blue, then fed Hyman alone in the slit.
The players of the Edmonton Oilers celebrate after a goal from Evander Kane (91) in the second period of a 6-1 victory against the Kings in match 3 of their first round eliminatory series on Friday in Crypto.com Arena.
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The Oilers striker took a few strokes a few strokes, with King Cam Talbot's goalkeeper stopped the two tests, before Hyman finally did it inside the post of the Talbot stick for his fifth goal of the playoffs. He would obtain his sixth periods later, giving him goals in the three games in the series.
Draisaitl doubled the advance at the end of the first period, bringing together a pass that Evander Kane rebounded on the side of the Kings net, then beating Talbot proper with a pointed angle near the bottom of the left circle for its 82nd point of eliminating series in career.
Three minutes later, McDavid scored on a power game, hitting a rebound on his own shot for his first goal from these playoffs. Evan Bouchard recovered his fifth decisive pass and said his fourth on the play.
Doughty obtained the kings on Table 5:32 in the second period, a single pass from Quinton Byfield in the net. For Byfield, the assistance was his third in two games, pushing his sequence of eliminatory points with five games. But Kane recovered the goal for Edmonton two minutes later, deviating in a shot from defender Cody that of the blue line of his leg in front of Talbot.
The defender of the Kings Vladislav Gavrikov, on the left, and the striker of the Oilers of Edmonton Warren Foegele Chase after the washer of the second period on Friday.
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The game degenerated at the start of the third period with the Kings, which were eliminated by Edmonton in the first round of the playoffs in the last two seasons, showing their frustration. Three Kings players were sent ice: the defender Andreas Englund For fights and an illegal check, captain Anze Kopitar for heating and assistance pipes and a top scorer Adrian Kempe To rush.
Three oilers also left after the skirmish, but the double penalites on Kopitar and Englund left Edmonton with an advantage five against three and Hyman needed less than 80 seconds to take advantage of it, scoring his sixth goal of the series to give Edmonton an advance of 5-1.
It was the second of the three goals of power – out of seven opportunities – by the Oilers. The Kings were aimed at five chances with the advantage of man and have not yet produced a goal of playing power in the series.
“I don't know how they had as many power games to be honest. Calls were …” Kevin Fiala said before being cut by a team employee.
McDavid obtained his seventh decisive pass in playoffs on Hyman's second goal, but the Big Three of the Oilers were not made, with Draisaitl on another goal from Power-Play at 12:38. McDavid also obtained a assist.
The unilateral score line could be a bad omen for the Kings, which were sent 8-2 by the Oilers in match 3 in Los Angeles two years ago and who lost the series in seven games.
The challenge for the Kings is to slow down the Oilers offensive enough to return to the series.
“They are not impossible to stop. We stopped the last game,” said Fiala. “Obviously, they are very good players. But we have to do a better job.”
