Kings snap losing skid, hand Oilers 2nd consecutive loss with blowout win
CBC
Sticking to the game plan was key, but having Connor McDavid exit the contest on a game misconduct didn't hurt the Los Angeles Kings either.
Adrian Kempe scored a pair of goals and Los Angeles snapped a two-game losing skid by defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 on Sunday. It was the Kings' second win in their last nine outings.
Rasmus Kupari, Drew Doughty and Trevor Moore also scored for the Kings (10-9-4), which scored three power-play goals in a span of 2:19 late in the third period after McDavid took a boarding major for hitting Kempe from behind.
Kings coach Todd McLellan said hard work is the key to taking down Edmonton.
"I don't think you beat the Edmonton Oilers unless you check," he said. "You open it up and play a freewheeling game, you're not going to win. Checking and patience led to opportunities for us and we took advantage of them."
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Jonathan Quick made 21 saves in the win.
Darnell Nurse scored the lone goal for the Oilers (16-7-0), which lost two straight for the first time this season.
"This has been coming for a while here, been coming for a while," said Oilers head coach Dave Tippett. "We've been masking it with some special teams stuff, but we haven't had enough guys play well for a while. It was a 2-1 score but weren't good enough in it, and we gave up some power-play goals at the end.
"We've got too many guys who aren't contributing enough to help us here."
The Oilers got off to another bad start as the Kings scored just two minutes into the contest when Moore made a nice touch pass to Kupari at the side of the net for an easy tap-in past Koskinen.
The Kings made it 2-0 less than two minutes into the middle frame as Kempe scored his ninth on a wrist shot that Koskinen could have saved.
Edmonton got back into the game midway through the second period with a shorthanded goal, as Nurse was able to score up high from a sharp angle past Quick for his first goal of the season.
Nurse returned to action after missing six games for breaking a finger blocking a shot.
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