In Edmonton Thursday, the Los Angeles Kings continued to flounder on offense and it cost them in a 3-1 loss to the Oilers.
Eric Gryba scored the go-ahead goal for Edmonton at 6:58 of the third period.
“It was just a lucky play,” Gryba said. “I took a swing at it and it went in. It was a good
Cam Talbot (#33) – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
play by [Milan Lucic] to get it in front of the net and for [Eberle] to be there.”
It was his fist goal of the season.
Patrick Maroon and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for the Oilers who improved to 19-12-6.
Nick Shore was only goal scorer for the Kings who fell to 17-15-4.
“We played a hell of a hockey team in a tough building,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. “You should give the Oilers a little bit of credit. The Oilers don’t give up much. Their goalie is really in control, there’s not a lot of rebounds and the defense knocks a lot of pucks down around in front of the net, so they aren’t going to give up a lot of quality from in front of the net.”
Peter Budaj had 32 saves in the loss.
“What can you say? We tied the game and then Gryba hit it out of the air,” Budaj said. “It doesn’t happen that often, it was just a lucky bounce. But you can’t really blame everything on lucky bounces.”
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Cam Talbot picked up the win on 26 saves.
“We had scorers that checked, which was really important. We had some checkers that scored, so that took care of the game sheet. I thought we played well along the boards when we needed to, and particularly in our zone,” Edmonton head coach Todd McLellan said of his team’s effort.
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