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Edmonton Oilers<\/a> (40-29-10, in the Pacific Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings<\/a> (33-26-19, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Saturday, 4 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Kings host the Edmonton Oilers after Adrian Kempe<\/a> scored two goals in the Kings’ 4-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 33-26-19 overall with an 8-5-9 record against the Pacific Division. The Kings have a 25-4-10 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n

Edmonton has gone 40-29-10 overall with a 15-6-3 record in Pacific Division play. The Oilers have a 38-9-8 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Saturday for the third time this season. The Oilers won the previous meeting 8-1. Jake Walman<\/a> scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kempe has 34 goals and 37 assists for the Kings. Quinton Byfield<\/a> has six goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid<\/a> has 47 goals and 86 assists for the Oilers. Jack Roslovic<\/a> has scored four goals and added three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 5-2-3, averaging 3.1 goals, 4.8 assists, 2.9 penalties and eight penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Oilers: 6-3-1, averaging 3.2 goals, five assists, 3.1 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Kings: Kevin Fiala: out for season (leg), Andrei Kuzmenko<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Oilers: Leon Draisaitl: out (lower-body), Connor Ingram<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Jason Dickinson<\/a>: day to day (leg), Zach Hyman: out (undisclosed), Mattias Janmark: out for season (undisclosed).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers (40-29-10, in the Pacific Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (33-26-19, in the Pacific Division) Los Angeles;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[366,870,2663,155,198,146,5300,56683,5,1648,3144,4446,145,285,4,24,1295],"class_list":{"0":"post-549438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-andrei-kuzmenko","10":"tag-connor-ingram","11":"tag-connor-mcdavid","12":"tag-edmonton","13":"tag-edmonton-oilers","14":"tag-edmontonoilers","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-jack-roslovic","18":"tag-jake-walman","19":"tag-jason-dickinson","20":"tag-los-angeles-kings","21":"tag-national-hockey-league","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-oilers","24":"tag-quinton-byfield"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116379738891022167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549438","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=549438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}