The game between the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings will take place at Rogers Place on Monday, April 17 at 10:00 PM ET.
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The Edmonton Oilers will welcome the Los Angeles Kings to Rogers Place for an NHL game on Monday. The Edmonton Oilers won 5-2 in their last game over the Sharks. Mattias Janmark scored twice, Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists and the Edmonton Oilers closed the regular season with a franchise-record ninth straight victory, 5-2 over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.
Evan Bouchard and Evander Kane also scored and Stuart Skinner made 27 saves. The Oilers were 14-0-1 in their last 15 to finish 50-23-9. They will open the playoff against the Los Angeles Kings. “We feel good about our game heading into the most important time of the year,” said Oilers captain Connor McDavid, the NHL champion in goals (64), assists (89) and points (153). “Even if there wasn’t stuff on the line we wanted to finish strong. “It was a good regular season, individually and for the team, now is the fun time.
Skinner up his 29th victory in net, surpassing Grant Fuhr (1981-82) for the franchise record for wins in a rookie season. “It means a lot to be recognized in the same sentence as Grant Fuhr,” Skinner said. “Growing up in Edmonton, all you heard about is how fantastic of a goalie he is and how competitive he was. He’s a Hall of Fame goalie, one of the best goalies to play the game, so it’s a really cool moment.”
The Los Angeles Kings on the other hand won 3-5 against the Ducks in their last game. Adrian Kempe had three goals and an assist and the Los Angeles Kings clinched third place in the Pacific Division on Thursday night with a 5-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks, who will have the best odds in the draft lottery after finishing with the NHL’s worst record.
Captain Anze Kopitar scored a first-period goal that made him Los Angeles’ leading scorer for the 15th time in the last 16 seasons, while Kempe and Trevor Moore scored 49 seconds apart in the second period of the 159th regular-season edition of the Freeway Faceoff. Kempe completed his fourth career hat trick on an empty-net goal with 1:39 to play, and dozens of visiting Kings fans littered the ice in celebration. Roughly 40 minutes after leaving the ice, the Kings learned they’ll face Edmonton in the first round for the second consecutive season.
Shaking off a 2-5-0 skid that scuttled their chances at the division title, the Kings won their final two games to finish with 104 points, the second-most in franchise history behind the 1974-75 squad (105). “It’s nice to have the feeling of positive morale, positive momentum going into (the playoffs),” Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson said. “We’ve found some ways to score goals and had a couple of physical games as well, so that’s all been good for us.”
Leon Draisaitl – Mattias Janmark – Evan Bouchard
Cody Ceci – Mattias Ekholm – Evander Kane
Connor McDavid – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – Derek Ryan
Stuart Skinner – Kailer Yamamoto
Nick Bjugstad – Vincent Desharnais
Warren Foegele – Zach Hyman
Klim Kostin – Brett Kulak
Ryan McLeod
Darnell Nurse
Adrian Kempe – Viktor Arvidsson – Drew Doughty
Anže Kopitar – Matt Roy – Trevor Moore
Michael Anderson – Quinton Byfield – Phillip Danault
Sean Durzi – Vladislav Gavrikov
Carl Grundstrom – Alex Iafallo
Arthur Kaliyev – Joonas Korpisalo
Rasmus Kupari – Blake Lizotte
Zack MacEwen
Sean Walker
Edmonton Oilers: Ryan Murray, Mike Smith, Oscar Klefbom
Los Angeles Kings: Kevin Fiala, Alexander Edler, Gabriel Vilardi, Jacob Ingham
The game between the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings will take place at Rogers Place on Monday, April 17 at 10:00 PM ET.
The match between the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings will be telecast live on ESPN, ESPN+.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | ESPN, ESPN+. | April 17 (10:00 PM ET) |
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