Kings hold off Oilers to earn 6-5 win in Game 1

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Phillip Danault scored his 2nd extremity with 42 seconds to play, and the Los Angeles Kings blew a four-goal pb earlier rallying for a 6-5 triumph implicit the Edmonton Oilers successful the opener of the clubs' 4th consecutive first-round playoff bid Monday night.

Kings stroke a 4-goal pb earlier Phillip Danault scores the last-minute victor

Greg Beachem · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 22, 2025 1:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Three hockey players conflict for the puck.

The Kings led 5-3 successful the last minutes earlier Zach Hyman and Connor McDavid tied it with an other attacker. Los Angeles improbably responded, with Danault skating up the mediate and chunking a fluttering changeable location portion a leaping Warren Foegele screened goalie Stuart Skinner.

Andrei Kuzmenko had a extremity and 2 assists successful his Stanley Cup playoff debut, and Adrian Kempe added different extremity and 2 assists for the second-seeded Kings, who mislaid those past 3 bid against Edmonton. Los Angeles became the 4th squad successful Stanley Cup playoffs past to triumph successful regularisation contempt blowing a four-goal lead.

Quinton Byfield, Phillip Danault and Kevin Fiala besides scored, and Darcy Kuemper made 20 saves successful his archetypal playoff commencement since raising the Cup with Colorado successful 2022.

Los Angeles is facing Edmonton successful the playoffs for the 4th clip successful a enactment this spring, but it's the archetypal clip the Kings volition person home-ice vantage for their bid against the Oilers. The Kings surged to a 4-0 pb precocious successful the 2nd play successful the arena wherever they had the NHL's champion location record. That's erstwhile the Oilers woke up and made it a memorable night: Leon Draisaitl, Mattias Janmark and Corey Perry scored earlier Hyman scored with 2:04 near and McDavid scored an exceptional tying extremity with 1:28 remaining.

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McDavid had a extremity and 3 assists for the Oilers, who reached Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final past season. Skinner stopped 24 shots.

Game 2 is Wednesday nighttime successful Los Angeles.

Until Edmonton's precocious rally, Kuzmenko was the star. Los Angeles went 0 for 12 connected the powerfulness play against Edmonton past spring, but the 29-year-old Russian — who has energized the Kings since arriving past period — scored during a antheral vantage conscionable 2:49 in.