Phillip Danault scored 41.1 seconds before the host Los Angeles Kings on Monday night to give 6-5 win against Edmonton Oilers at the Stanley Cup Playoff opener.
Andrei Kuzmenko and Adrian Kempe, Quinton Byfield and Kevin Fiala’s Western Conference, the first round series of the first round of a goal and a help and two assists collected a goal and two assists.
Goaldender Darcy Kuemper made 20 savings for Kings, which ranked 5-2 in the third place before the restoration of Oiles at the end of the second period, and required the heroes of Danault.
A few minutes after the Oilers tied the conflict, the beef joined an ice and gently took off at the nest. However, Oilers goalkeeper Stuart Skinner rose to the Pucck winner.
Connor McDavid scored once in a four -point game for Edmonton, while Corey Perry and Leon Draisaitl have a goal and an assistant notch. Mattias Janmark and Zach Hyman added a goal, Evan Bouchard collected three assists and Skinner 24 shots stopped.
The second game of the best seven series will be in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The fourth year in which the clubs meet in the first round of playoffs.
The kings were above four goals, thanks to Kuzmenko (in a power game) and Byfield, then Kempe and Danault’s first period, which were late castles of the late -time castles.
However, Oilers refused to go quietly. Draisaitl put visitors on the blackboard with a 18th goal in the 19 playoff match against the kings, and Janmark 2:19 spoke in the third period.
In the 4:59 of the final framework of Fiala, three -to -one power game goals back the three goals of Los Angeles and sealed the game. However, Perry made a stroke at 7:43, Hyman made him a single -goal game in 17:25, and McDavid tied the clash 88 seconds before the arrangement.
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