EDMONTON – Adrian Kempe scored the shootout winner because the Los Angeles Kings earned a ration of revenge from final yr’s playoffs, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Saturday within the first assembly between the 2 groups since final spring.
Corey Perry, Andre Lee and Alex Laferriere scored in regulation for the Kings (19-15-10) who snapped a two-game dropping skid. The Kings have misplaced within the first spherical of the playoffs to Edmonton in 4 consecutive seasons.
Leon Draisaitl had a pair of targets and Connor McDavid additionally scored for the Oilers (22-16-7), who had a two-game profitable streak halted. It was the eighth time this season the Oilers failed to increase a profitable streak to a few video games.
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Anton Forsberg made 21 stops to earn the win within the Los Angeles web, whereas Connor Ingram recorded 28 saves for the Oilers.
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TAKEAWAYS
Kings: Perry, who spent the final two seasons with Edmonton, haunted his former workforce by scoring his tenth of the season. The 40-year-old ahead missed the final two video games coping with a private problem.
Oilers: McDavid prolonged his level streak to a career-high 18 video games (19 targets, 23 assists), eclipsing his earlier excessive of 17 video games reached twice beforehand in 2021-22 and 2022-23.
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The Oilers tied the sport at 3-3 9:20 into the third interval on a five-on-three energy play as McDavid took a feed from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and scored his thirtieth of the season.
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Draisaitl received Edmonton’s first two targets after a pre-game ceremony recognizing his Dec. 16 achievement of reaching 1,000 regular-season factors. Draisaitl grew to become the 103rd participant in NHL historical past to succeed in the mark, becoming a member of Wayne Gretzky, McDavid, Jari Kurri and Mark Messier as the one gamers in Oilers franchise historical past to succeed in the milestone. The 30-year-old German ahead hit 1,000 factors in 824 video games, fourth quickest amongst lively gamers behind McDavid (659), Sidney Crosby (757) and Nikita Kucherov (809). It was additionally Draisaitl’s 71st profession multi-goal recreation, shifting him previous Messier into fourth in franchise historical past.
UP NEXT
Kings: Host the Dallas Stars on Monday.
Oilers: Go to the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 10, 2026.
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