The game between the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers will take place at Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, April 23 at 9:00 PM ET.
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The Los Angeles Kings will welcome the Edmonton Oilers to Crypto.com Arena for an NHL game on Sunday. The Los Angeles Kings won 3-2 in their last game over the Oilers. Trevor Moore grew up in nearby Thousand Oaks and came to Los Angeles Kings playoff games one day hoping to achieve his own postseason moment. On Friday night it happened for the 28-year old forward even though he needed to wait a little bit to make sure it counted.
Moore became the first California-born player to score a postseason overtime goal for a California-based team, with his power-play goal 3:24 into the extra period giving the Kings a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers and a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference first-round series. “It was awesome. Super fun playing in that building. That energy was like nothing else. It was really special,” Moore said after his first goal of the series and fourth postseason score of his career.
Game 4 on Sunday night in Los Angeles. The goal was upheld following a lengthy review to determine if Gabriel Villardi played the puck in the corner with a high stick. The NHL’s situation room said there was no conclusive video evidence to determine that the puck made contact with Viladri’s stick. “It was a long wait, but wasn’t horrible. Either way know we were going to keep pushing and it was all good,” Moore said of the review.
The Edmonton Oilers on the other hand lost 3-2 against the Kings in their last game. Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft wasn’t happy that the goal stood and how the game was called. “It’s a play where the greatest player in the world (Connor McDavid) is 2 feet away as it happens and his arm comes straight up in the air because he knows that it hit the stick. Otherwise, he wouldn’t put his arm up in the air and keep playing,” Woodcroft said. “It appears to me and in video that the puck is going straight up in a trajectory and deadens.”
After Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was called for high-sticking at 1:44, Moore took Villardi’s pass from behind the net and put it between the legs of goaltender Stuart Skinner to give the Kings their second OT victory of the series. “For us to play Edmonton as close as possible in special situations gives us the best chance of success,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said.
McDavid had a pair of power-play goals for the second multi-goal playoff game of his career. Evan Bouchard had a pair of assists, and Skinner made 28 saves. The Oilers, who led the league with a 32.4% conversion rate on the power play during the regular season, are 4 for 8 with the man advantage in the series. “It’s a tight-checking series and they seems to be getting the little breaks here and there,” McDavid said. “I like the way we had our looks and chances, but it came down to a power play in overtime.”
Viktor Arvidsson – Quinton Byfield – Drew Doughty
Alex Iafallo – Adrian Kempe – Anže Kopitar
Trevor Moore – Matt Roy – Gabriel Vilardi
Michael Anderson – Jaret Anderson-Dolan
Phillip Danault – Sean Durzi
Alexander Edler – Vladislav Gavrikov
Carl Grundstrom – Joonas Korpisalo
Rasmus Kupari
Zack MacEwen
Evan Bouchard – Connor McDavid – Leon Draisaitl
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – Nick Bjugstad – Philip Broberg
Cody Ceci – Vincent Desharnais – Mattias Ekholm
Warren Foegele – Zach Hyman
Evander Kane – Klim Kostin
Brett Kulak – Ryan McLeod
Darnell Nurse – Derek Ryan
Stuart Skinner
Kailer Yamamoto
Los Angeles Kings: Blake Lizotte, 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 Sunday, April 23 at 9:00 PM ET.
The match between the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers will be telecast live on Fox Sports West, Bally Sports West, TNT.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Fox Sports West, Bally Sports West, TNT. | April 23 (9:00 PM ET) |
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