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Kings dominate Geese to take care of hole over Oilers in Pacific Division

By Editorial Board Published April 11, 2025 3 Min Read
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Kings dominate Geese to take care of hole over Oilers in Pacific Division

The Kings moved two factors nearer to clinching dwelling ice for the primary spherical of the playoffs Thursday, using two objectives from Kevin Fiala and objectives from Quinton Byfield, Anze Kopitar, Alex Laferriere and Jordan Spence to a 6-1 rout of the Geese at Crypto.com Enviornment.

Andrei Kuzmenko and Adrian Kempe every had three assists.

Cutter Gauthier scored for the Geese, his twentieth of the season, early within the second interval. However Kings goalie Darcy Kuemper didn’t hand over one other, extending his streak of video games yielding two or fewer objectives to fifteen, one wanting the fashionable NHL document.

The win gave the second-place Kings a four-point lead over the third-place Edmonton Oilers within the Pacific Division with 4 video games to play. The Kings and Oilers are nearly sure to fulfill within the first spherical of the Stanley Cup playoffs for a fourth consecutive season and residential ice may very well be crucial for the Kings, who’ve the NHL’s finest dwelling document (30-5-4).

The Oilers received the final three playoff collection with the Kings however all three opened in Edmonton.

The Kings wanted simply 84 seconds to take the lead, with Byfield scoring from the slot on an influence play. Gauthier matched that 1:46 into the second interval, blasting a snap shot previous Kuemper from the appropriate faceoff circle. However Kopitar put the Kings in entrance to remain 31 seconds later, redirecting in a Mikey Anderson shot from the blue line for his twentieth objective of the season.

That marked the 14th time Kopitar has scored 20 or extra objectives in a season.

Fiala doubled the lead on a power-play objective from the highest of the appropriate faceoff circle 2 ½ minutes later earlier than Laferriere made it 4-1, batting down a unfastened puck on the high of the left circle, then fanning on a shot from the crease earlier than backhanding a second shot.

Fiala and Spence closed the scoring in third interval, with Fiala netting his thirty second of the season on the facility play and Spence getting his fourth. For Kuzmenko, the three assists gave him 10 factors within the final six video games whereas Kempe, whose spouse, Sian, gave beginning to the couple’s first youngster, a lady, earlier this week, has 9 factors over the identical six-game span.

The Kings had been with out defenseman Drew Doughty for a second straight recreation. Doughty’s absence was associated to the damaged left ankle that induced him to overlook the primary 47 video games of the season. He’s listed as day after day

Regardless of the loss the Geese, with 35 wins, have already matched their finest regular-season whole since 2018-19.

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