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Leon Draisaitl scored astatine 18:18 of overtime connected the powerfulness play and added 3 assists arsenic the Edmonton Oilers battled backmost to adjacent their first-round playoff bid with Los Angeles, coming distant with a miraculous 4-3 Game 4 triumph implicit the Kings connected Sunday.
The triumph ties the bid astatine 2 apiece
Shane Jones · The Canadian Press
· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 2:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago
Leon Draisaitl scored astatine 18:18 of overtime connected the powerfulness play and added 3 assists arsenic the Edmonton Oilers battled backmost to adjacent their first-round playoff bid with Los Angeles, coming distant with a miraculous 4-3 Game 4 triumph implicit the Kings connected Sunday.
After Evan Bouchard scored his 2nd extremity of the crippled with 29 seconds remaining successful the 3rd to nonstop it to overtime, Edmonton was fixed a precocious powerfulness play successful OT erstwhile Vladislav Gavrikov tripped Connor McDavid. Draisaitl made the astir of it, pouncing connected a rebound to grounds his 3rd extremity of the playoffs.
Corey Perry besides scored an assistance and McDavid had 2 assists for the Oilers who person bounced backmost with 2 consecutive wins astatine location aft losing a brace of contests successful Los Angeles to commencement the best-of-seven series.
Trevor Moore, Warren Foegele and Kevin Fiala replied for the Kings, who haven't won a playoff bid since 2014, erstwhile they defeated the New York Rangers to triumph the Stanley Cup.
Calvin Pickard made 38 saves successful the Edmonton nett to grounds the win, portion Darcy Kuemper stopped 43 shots successful the nonaccomplishment for the Kings.
The Kings started the scoring midway done the archetypal play arsenic the Oilers got careless successful their portion and allowed Phillip Danault to excavation it retired of the country and walk it to Moore, who sent his 2nd extremity of the bid done Pickard's legs.
They made it 2-0 conscionable 1:31 into the 2nd connected different turnover arsenic Pickard was capable to marque the archetypal prevention connected Foegele, but helium was capable to deposit the rebound into the nett for his archetypal of the post-season against his erstwhile team.
Edmonton got 1 backmost connected the powerfulness play 4 minutes into the mediate framework arsenic Perry displayed deft hands, batting his ain rebound retired of mid-air into the crease and past scoring his 2nd of the playoffs.
The Kings took vantage of yet different turnover to regain the two-goal borderline arsenic Fiala fought done for a breakaway and fluttered a changeable past Pickard for his third.
The shots done 40 minutes favoured the Kings 28-15.
Edmonton pulled backmost wrong 1 with a fluke extremity coming 7:51 into the 3rd play arsenic a Bouchard changeable that was going wide alternatively deflected disconnected of defender Drew Doughty's skate and past Kuemper. It was credited arsenic Bouchard's 3rd of the series.
The Oilers pulled disconnected a adjacent occurrence and tied it up with conscionable 29 seconds near and Pickard pulled for an other attacker arsenic Draisaitl picked up his 3rd assist, sending it backmost to Bouchard who blasted the puck blocker-side for his 2nd of the game, not agelong aft a immense play to support it successful astatine the bluish line.
Bouchard became the 4th subordinate successful NHL past to grounds aggregate goals successful back-to-back playoff games.
Kuemper stood connected his caput successful overtime, making 17 saves successful other clip earlier Edmonton's power-play winner.
Game 5 takes spot Tuesday successful Los Angeles.
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