The game between the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers will take place at Crypto.com Arena on Friday, April 21 at 10:00 PM ET.
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The Los Angeles Kings will welcome the Edmonton Oilers to Crypto.com Arena for an NHL game on Friday. The Los Angeles Kings lost 4-2 in their last game over the Oilers. Joonas Korpisalo stopped 33 shots for Los Angeles. Gabriel Vilardi and Philip Danault scored for the Kings. Vilardi returned after missing the last nine games of the regular season and first game of the series because of a lower-body injury. Game 3 is Friday night in Los Angeles. The Kings have been outplayed for significant stretches of both games, and have been awful in first periods.
On Wednesday, they managed just three shots on goal in the opening frame. “The first 20 (minutes), not good. The next 40 was pretty good,” said Danault. “Actually, we played pretty good hockey and it seemed like the play was more slowed down. It was a good overall 40 minutes, but we’ve got to play 60.” On the go-ahead goal, Draisaitl’s neutral-zone check on Arthur Kaliyev along the boards forced a turnover for Kostin to skate the puck into the zone and wire a shot to the far side on Korpisalo.
The focus for the Kings is to be good right from Game 3’s opening faceoff. They can’t afford to fall behind 2-0 again. They can’t just hope for their netminder to hold them in the game. “We need a better start, but the character was there,” said Danault. “We came back again. And we proved we can do that. Now, we have to go the other way. “We can do better than that. We can take the lead, maybe. And we don’t always have to catch somebody.”
The Edmonton Oilers on the other hand won 4-2 against the Kings in their last game. Klim Kostin broke a tie at 2:20 of the third period and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 on Wednesday night in Game 2 to tie the first-round Western Conference playoff series. Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists to help Edmonton rebound from a 4-3 overtime loss in the opener. Derek Ryan and Evander Kane — into an empty net — also scored for the Oilers.
“Both games, I thought we controlled the bulk of the play,” said Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft “In both games, we had a couple of minutes we’d like to have back.” NHL scoring champion Connor McDavid had an assist and Stuart Skinner made 23 saves in his first NHL playoff victory. Edmonton took a 2-0 lead in first period and Los Angeles struck twice in the second.
“We came out flat in the first period, but we made a game of it,” said Vilardi. “Obviously, Korpi was a big factor in that. But we’ve got to put together a solid 60 minutes. We haven’t played great for the majority of the game.”
Michael Anderson – Phillip Danault – ladislav Gavrikov
Adrian Kempe – Trevor Moore – Gabriel Vilardi
Viktor Arvidsson – Quinton Byfield – Drew Doughty
Sean Durzi – Alexander Edler
Carl Grundstrom – Alex Iafallo
Arthur Kaliyev – Anže Kopitar
Joonas Korpisalo – Rasmus Kupari
Blake Lizotte
Matt Roy
Leon Draisaitl – Evan Bouchard – Evander Kane
Klim Kostin – Connor McDavid – Darnell Nurse
Derek Ryan – Nick Bjugstad – Philip Broberg
Cody Ceci – Vincent Desharnais
Mattias Ekholm – Warren Foegele
Zach Hyman – Brett Kulak
Ryan McLeod – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Stuart Skinner
Kailer Yamamoto
Los Angeles Kings: Kevin Fiala, Jacob Ingham
Edmonton Oilers: Mattias Janmark, Ryan Murray, Mike Smith, Oscar Klefbom
The game between the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers will take place at Crypto.com Arena on Friday, April 21 at 10:00 PM ET.
The match between the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers will be telecast live on Fox Sports West, Bally Sports West, ESPN.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Fox Sports West, Bally Sports West, ESPN. | April 21 (10:00 PM ET) |
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