The Edmonton Oilers, with one of the best home records in the National Hockey League this season, will host the Los Angeles Kings in the first round of the NHL playoffs on Wednesday night, April 24.
The Oilers, who hold a 1-0 lead in the series, and Kings will play again at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta.
Game time is 10 p.m. EDT and you can watch it on TBS and live stream it on Sling TV (first-month discount) and DirecTV Stream (free trial and discount).
Zach Hyman had three goals and an assist in his first postseason hat trick, Connor McDavid had five assists and the Oilers beat the Kings 7-4 in Game 1 on Monday.
Adam Henrique, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Leon Draisaitl and Warren Foegele also scored and Evan Bouchard chipped in with four assists for the Oilers, who had lost the first game of their last seven playoff series and had not won Game 1 of a series on home ice since 1990.
They were 28-9-4 at home during the regular season, the third-best record in the NHL.
Edmonton is 21-3 all-time when taking a 1-0 lead in a best-of-seven series.
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Stuart Skinner finished with 33 saves to get the win.
“I thought it was a great overall performance,” Bouchard told The Associated Press. “We got on them early like we wanted to do. They pushed, but we battled back and it worked out in our favor. ... Whenever you can get up in a series it’s always a good feeling, especially the way we did it.”
Mikey Anderson, Adrian Kempe, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Trevor Moore scored for the Kings, who were eliminated in the opening round by the Oilers in each of the previous two seasons. Cam Talbot had 38 saves.
“That’s not our model. That’s not the way we play. It’s frustrating,” veteran Kings defenseman Drew Doughty told the AP. “We just have to put that game in the past and get back to doing what we do best and that’s playing good two-way hockey.”
Hyman, who rang a shot off the post a few minutes earlier, started the scoring 6:52 into the opening period. McDavid spun off a defender and then sent a backhand pass in front to Hyman, who beat Talbot. Hyman had 54 goals in the regular season.
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Edmonton made it 2-0 less than three minutes later as Henrique, who was picked up at the trade deadline from Anaheim, fired a perfect wrist shot top corner for his first goal in his first postseason appearance in six years. Henrique set a Stanley Cup playoff record for the longest span between goals, his last goal coming 4,333 days earlier when he was in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final in 2012 with the New Jersey Devils.
It was 4-0 before the Kings got on the board midway through the second period, but that deficit was way too much to overcome.
The Oilers are 6 of 17 on power plays in five games against LA this season, including 3 of 4 in the opener. The Kings were second in the league during the regular season at 84.6% on penalty killing.
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