Edmonton Oilers win 3-1 in Game 5 to take series lead against Los Angeles Kings

Greg Beacham · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 5:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Mattias Janmark scored the tiebreaking extremity astatine 7:12 of the 3rd period, and the Edmonton Oilers bushed the Los Angeles Kings 3-1 Tuesday nighttime for their 3rd consecutive triumph and a 3-2 pb successful their first-round series.

Evander Kane and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins besides scored and Calvin Pickard made 20 saves for the defending Western Conference champion Oilers, who tin beforehand with a triumph successful Game 6 successful Edmonton connected Thursday.

Edmonton was yet rewarded for dominating possession and shots passim Game 5 erstwhile Janmark converted a rebound of Viktor Arvidsson's shot.

After immoderate fraught last moments, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins added an empty-net extremity to decorativeness the Oilers' franchise-record 3rd consecutive comeback playoff victory.

Andrei Kuzmenko scored and Darcy Kuemper stopped 43 shots for the second-seeded Kings, who are 1 nonaccomplishment distant from their 4th consecutive first-round playoff exit astatine Edmonton's hands contempt winning the archetypal 2 games of this bid astatine location and blowing third-period leads successful the adjacent two.

The location teams won the archetypal 4 games successful this series, but the Kings past faltered severely successful the gathering wherever they had the NHL's champion location grounds this season. Los Angeles besides led successful the last infinitesimal of Game 4 earlier losing successful overtime, allowing Edmonton backmost into the series.

After mounting a third-period comeback to instrumentality Game 3, the Oilers person tilted the bid decidedly successful their favour since midway done Game 4, utterly dominating possession and shots. Edmonton has outshot the Kings 79-34 since the commencement of the 3rd play of Game 4.

But Kuemper made 19 saves successful the archetypal play of Game 5 to support it scoreless, and Los Angeles went up aboriginal successful the 2nd erstwhile Kuzmenko tipped location skipper Anze Kopitar's changeable during a powerfulness play. Kuzmenko recorded his sixth constituent of the postseason and his 23rd constituent successful 27 games since joining the Kings little than 2 months ago.

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The Oilers answered little than 3 minutes aboriginal with Kane's 2nd extremity of the bid from the slot. Kane went unpunished aboriginal successful the play for a knee-on-knee deed connected Kings scoring person Adrian Kempe.

Edmonton's 33 shots successful the archetypal 2 periods were the astir allowed each play by Los Angeles, which was unopen down aft scoring 19 goals successful the archetypal 4 games of the series.