Stanley Cup Playoffs: Oilers win four straight to eliminate kings in game 6
After losing their first two games in the series, Edmonton Oilers won four straight to get the series from Los Angeles Kings after a 6-4 win on Thursday night.
The 1st period
The most exciting Play -offit series continued to live up to his name after both teams exchanged two goals each within the first six minutes of the game.
Goals for Royalty were marked by Quinton Byfield AND Brandt Clarke WHEREAS Adam Henrique AND Ryan Nugent-Hopkins marked for oil.
With just over seven minutes left in the first, oilers raised another to get 3-2 lead.
This time around it was Zach Hyman With the goal and assisted by Nugent-Hopkins, who scored the goal before that.
The first period ended with 24 combined strokes and 20 strokes between the two teams.
But oilers went into intervention after capitalizing their game of power, something the kings failed to do with them.
The 2nd period
A period without a penalty saw no goal scored for up to the last five minutes – where we saw three goals scored.
Darneli scored his first play-off goal to give Edmonton a 4-2 lead to five minutes left to go to the second.
Just less than two minutes later his teammate, Trent FredericIt also scored his first play-off goal to set Oilers 5-2.
And essentially the same time between goals, kings’ Jordan Spence He also scored his first play-off goal to attract Los Angeles within two while shaking lead 5-3 going in the third period.
Edmonton entered the second intervention of the Los Angeles 22-15 intervention while he was doing 22-24.
The 3rd period
After what was mostly a third indefinite period, the kings withdrew their goalkeeper with three minutes to enter the game and this led to a wicked slap. Drew Doughty with 53 seconds left to pull inside one.
But not enough after Edmonton Connor Brown blocked an last kick in the kings area before setting home a blank network to seal the fate of Los Angeles, winning 6-4.
After losing the first two games of the series, Oilers turned and won four straight to advance in the second round as they look back to Stanley Cup’s final.