In Edmonton, Leon Draisaitl had one of two goals for the Oilers in the first period as Edmonton edged out the Los Angeles Kings on Friday, 2-1.
“It wasn’t pretty, but at the end of the day, nobody is going to ask if this game was pretty or not,” Draisaitl said. “It’s two points for us and that’s really all that matters.”
Draisaitl’s goal was a power play marker.
Mikko Koskinen made 35 saves in the win.
Michael Amadio scored the Kings only goal.
“The effort is there. If you look at our 5-on-5 game tonight, we were probably the better team,” Los Angeles captain Anze Kopitar said. “We created more chances, but the game consists of special teams too. Special teams now are a huge part of the games and we lost them tonight. We knew they are a very good team on the power play and they made us pay for the mistakes we made.”
Alex Chiasson also scored in the first period for the Oilers.
“With our lineup the way it is right now (with injuries), we’re trying to grind out some points and that is what we did tonight,” Oilers coach Dave Tippett said. “We gave some people some minutes who are more grind-mode and who dig in. We knew we needed a tight, hard-checking game just to get us back set in the right direction and we got that tonight.”
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Jonathan Quick made 18 saves in the loss.
“We had some really good chances and we had some really good looks and unfortunately we couldn’t score,” Kings forward Adrian Kempe said. “It was a tough loss, but I think our team played pretty well 5-on-5 and our team deserved more than this.”
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