The Oilers had a fantastic second period and have eliminated LA for the third year in a row.
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Special Teams
Kings must be dead tired seeing the referees are all wearing boilers underwear
Long post follows with base game statistics including some for the LA Kings. Read, don't read, up to you. These are BASE stats not detailed ones. My comments at the end.
Statistics for LA Kings at Edmonton Oilers May 1st, 2024
Playoffs Round 1, Game 5
Oilers 4, LA 3 (Oilers win series 4-1 and advance to round 2)
Oilers:
Kane 1 Goal
Hyman 1 Goal
Draisaitl 2 Goals (1 on PP)
Kulak 1 Primary Assist
Nuge 2 Secondary Assists
McDavid 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist (on PP Goal)
Bouchard 2 Primary Assists (1 on PP), 1 Secondary Assist
Skinner 18 Saves on 22 Shots = .857 Save %age
Kings:
Kempe 1 Goal
Laferriere 1 Goal
Lizotte 1 Goal
Gavrikov 1 Primary Assist
Roy 1 Primary and 1 Secondary Assist
Arvidsson 1 Primary Assist
Englund 1 Secondary Assist
Fiala 1 Secondary Assist
Riddich 22 Saves on 26 Shots = .846 Save %age (58 minutes played)
Oilers Kings
Shots on Goal 26 21
Hits 27 57
Faceoffs Won 34 24
PP 0/1 1/5
Giveaways 9 (7 per NST) 4
Takeaways 13 (11 per NST) 2
Blocked Shots 22 (20 per NST) 12 (8 per NST)
3 Stars: 3-McDavid (2 Assists), Bouchard (3 Assists), Draisaitl (2 Goals)
Oilers Player Stats:
Player TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways
Bouchard 26:16 2 2 0 0 3 1 0
Ceci 20:50 0 -2 0 1 1 0 0
Nurse 19:52 1 -2 0 0 6 1 1
Ekholm 18:00 0 0 0 3 3 1 1
Desharnais 14:55 0 0 0 3 0 0 2
Kulak 13:04 0 0 0 3 2 0 0
Draisaitl 24:24 6 1 0 1 1 0 2
McDavid 23:36 4 2 0 0 0 0 0
Hyman 23:21 4 2 0 2 0 1 0
Nuge 23:11 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
Kane 16:42 3 -1 0 4 1 1 0
Henrique 14:21 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
McLeod 12:04 0 -1 0 0 1 1 0
Foegele 10:16 0 -1 2 2 0 1 2
Janmark 9:44 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
Holloway 9:22 1 -1 0 2 2 0 0
Ryan 9:19 2 0 0 1 1 0 1
Perry 8:43 1 0 2 1 0 0 2
Oilers Faceoffs Won Lost Percent
Draisaitl 12 15 44.4
Ryan 4 2 66.7
McLeod 4 3 57.1
McDavid 3 9 25.0
Henrique 1 4 20.0
Janmark 0 1 0.00
Kings Faceoffs Won Lost Percent
Kopitar 15 7 68.2
Dubois 8 6 57.1
Danault 6 9 40.0
Lizotte 4 0 100.0
Byfield 1 1 50.0
Lewis 0 2 0.00
Oilers put the Kings to bed (and off to their summer) for the third straight year in round 1. This time it only took 5 games (last year it took 6 and the year before 7). There are some stats that glare right at you on this one. Kings 57 hits to the Oilers 27. Kings 34 faceoff wins to the Oilers 24. Oilers 1/5 on the PP and 100% on the PK (again) but 2 goals came within seconds of the PP ending. Oilers 9 giveaways to LA's 4. Oilers 13 Takeaways to the Kings 2 and a huge one for me Oilers 22 blocks vs the Kings 12. The Kings had challenges getting it even TO Skinner.
The first LA goal was an unlucky bounce and the last one they had pulled their goalie for a man advantage (then after closing within one they take a stupid penalty and poof go their chances). The first Leon goal took a review to confirm as Riddich has the puck in his glove but the glove had crossed the goal line so PP goal. The Oilers owned the special teams battle in this series. Their PK remained 100% throughout and they got a lot of goals on the PP. Fiala took an embellishment penalty while saying "I believe I can fly" after a short Foegele hook (so we got coincidental minors there). I mean this isn't football (what some call soccer) where embellishment is an art form (typically paint by numbers done by the totally blind with the cap still on the marker but…).
Hope you enjoyed the stats and take care all.
McDavid one step closer to being introduced to the eastern time zone
What a beautiful jersey on you. Great win!
Fiala has dove so much in the past few years that it's not even funny. The same ref that reffed this series last year was reffing last night and obviously sees what Fiala does just like Marner. It was such an obvious dive and that call was right. Regardless, great game by the oil and hope they keep it going.
Lots of LA fans here in the comments crying over refs, look if you want to be mad then be angry at the fact the Kings have some of the worst special teams I've ever seen.
After that puck went off the stanchion and LA scored, I won't lie, I thought the Hockey Gods were sending a message. Who doesn't want Kempe on their team?
Oilers in 7 two years ago, Oilers in 6 last year, Oilers in 5 this year. So look for an Oilers sweep when these teams inevitably meet again next season.
While technically the Oiliers were 1/5 on the PP, practically speaking they were 3/5 as two of the goals happened right after the PP ended the returning playing wasn't back into play yet. Also, Skinner practically (there's that word again) only let in one goal as the first was a total fluke.
Oilers vs Canucks, I am calling 📞 it
That embellishment call was the turning point, also the Dubois penalty right after was soft.
Los Angeles Kings 4 line center makes 8.5 million dollars a year 😆
As long as McDavid, Draisaitl, Hyman, and Bouchard, wear the Oilers sweaters, the Kings will not get to the conference finals. Clearly, Edmonton has learned from past post-season losses. The Edmonton power play is awesome to watch and I cringed every time L.A. took a penalty.
NHL post season hockey is so much fun to watch.
It would appear the PLD trade made the Kings worse and the Jets better…good news is his no trade no movement contract is up in only seven years!
Oilers are trash team
Awesome jersey! I have the same with draisatle stamped on. Such a beaut! Wore it last night for the series win! Worked a charm as drai got a couple
The 1/5 pp seems low but in reality the 2 most important goals were seconds after. Special teams was the difference in the game and series for sure
What was wrong with Skinners game? He allowed 3 goals, 1 6 on 5 and 1 insane bounce off a stanchion. The other was a pretty clean break
Oilers winning the cup
Is this the new penguins caps