Oilers lose, but get their licks in in playoff preview with LA Kings

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Well, the suspicion is confirmed – if you dismiss Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman, Mattias Ekholm, Jake Walman, Trent Frederic and Evander Kane from Edmonton’s roster, they won’t beat the Los Angeles Kings.

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The experiment was what everyone thought of the Oilers Monday night, when the Oilers paid $41.5 million, played a second back-to-back game and added icing on the cake to look like a train camp road race roster, falling 5-0 to the visiting Kings.

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Shocking person.

“It’s not exactly our lineup, we spent the whole night in the box, it’s hard to diagnose.” Gymman striker Connor Brown, shrugging. “It’s a little cleansing.”

While the Oilers still have a mathematical chance to stay second in second place, they basically surrendered to the Kings the advantage of Family Ice, opting to play safely and not hurt them more.

Smart game, considering that without a major player entering the coach’s room, they can’t play more than one game.

However, due to the game’s disadvantage (Edmonton played four uniform shots in 30 minutes), this itself is still convincing, with both teams taking this as an opportunity to send the message to their fourth-round series in a row.

It’s a range from Chippi to annoying, Oilers’ defensive Nurse Darnell was expelled from the game in the second stage as he crossed the ice while facing in the face to face on the ice.

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The body has a bad relationship with the king.

“They have Team B, and they are trying to hurt us,” Los Angeles forward Phillip Danault said in a TV interview during the Weekday TV.

If that’s a bit of a complaint, it’s sure to rise from Oiler striker Corey Perry, who made exceptions to this: Squad B and attempted to hurt.

“What (BLEEP)”, the oil man veteran spits. “Sorry, but what do you want us to do? He didn’t see what happened in the past few weeks? What do he want us to do? We’re not there to hurt anyone. Let’s keep going.”

Brown felt the same way.

“I’m not interested in having a media war with Danault,” he said. “He ran to me, I ran to him. I really have nothing to say.”

Byfield left the game and did not return in the third phase. This may be registered within the suspension, but in the Joker show at NHL Player Safety, you don’t know what warrant supplement discipline, what doesn’t.

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Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said: “It’s a fine and I have no comments.

“I don’t think we’re running around. We have a few confusions, but I think it’s more than just a regular game. There’s obviously some extra tension, we play each other (in the first round), but I can’t see the typical game.”

Referees Wes McCauley and Jean Hebert seemed particularly afraid of the game that could break out as they called everything moving everything – eight minors in the first stage, the second time (and a pair of 10 minutes of misconduct) in the second stage.

Then, the same referee, the same team or two, did not have single penalty in the third stage. The Kings scored 8-2 in the power game, with the Oilers scoring 6-6.

“Everyone knows what’s ahead of us, it’s a tough series, it’s a tough series,” Brown said. “But they did a great job of controlling everything, they didn’t let it go.”

On the bright side, the Oilers had no new damage, so they were basically winning.

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“It was a wonderful night,” Knoblauch said with a smile. “It’s been a while since we haven’t had a good night. Whenever you lose like that, you’re still happy with things, you know it’s not going well in the injury department.”

Knoblauch hasn’t said whether McDavid, who is 99 points this season, will play his final game of the year on Wednesday in San Jose.

“We’re going to reevaluate that the game doesn’t mean anything,” he said. “Whether it’s Leon, Connor, or Heyman are playing, it’s a lot of issues. It’s probably not what they do. It’s the possibility that they play, but I’m not sure about our ability to play for them.”

be late –
Monday’s results made little sense, but interestingly, Edmonton scored one in his last three games against the Kings. …Edmonton’s roster includes 11 forwards, one of which is the NHL debut freshly signed winger Quinn Hutson and six defenders, including the bottom pairing of Josh Brown and Cam Dineen… King’s goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper played with him for 12 minutes, but they drove him out for 12 minutes, but they pulled the game away and inserted it.

Email: rtychkowski@postmedia.com

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