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EDMONTON, Canada\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Adrian Kempe scored the lone goal in a shootout and the Kings<\/a> beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3<\/a> on Saturday night in their first meeting since the first-round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Edmonton has eliminated the Kings during the opening round of the playoffs the past four seasons.<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid scored his 30th goal of the season to tie it 3-3 for Edmonton on a power play with 9:20 to go. He extended his points streak to a career-high 18 games.<\/p>\n

Corey Perry, Andre Lee and Alex Laferriere scored in regulation, and Anton Forsberg made 21 saves to help the Kings rebound from a 5-1 loss in Winnipeg on Friday night. The 40-year-old Perry spent the previous two seasons with Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Kings captain Anze Kopitar missed his third straight game with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

Leon Draisaitl scored twice for Edmonton, and Connor Ingram stopped 27 shots. McDavid, Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins failed on their shootout attempts for the Oilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Canada\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Adrian Kempe scored the lone goal in a shootout and the Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5126],"tags":[366,10969,3281,155,869,146,30395,5,816,186,1760,240,5303,370,42129,793,145,5304,5302,952,4,734,1936,1856,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-403763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-alex-laferriere","10":"tag-andre-lee","11":"tag-connor-mcdavid","12":"tag-corey-perry","13":"tag-edmonton-oilers","14":"tag-friday-night","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-king","17":"tag-kings","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-la-kings","20":"tag-lakings","21":"tag-leon-draisaitl","22":"tag-lone-shootout-goal","23":"tag-los-angeles","24":"tag-los-angeles-kings","25":"tag-losangeles","26":"tag-losangeleskings","27":"tag-loss","28":"tag-nhl","29":"tag-playoff","30":"tag-season","31":"tag-shot","32":"tag-winnipeg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115883429360577908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}