{"id":482610,"date":"2024-05-02T01:35:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T05:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482610"},"modified":"2024-05-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T05:35:04","slug":"draisaitl-notches-twice-as-oilers-eliminate-kings-after-4-3-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/draisaitl-notches-twice-as-oilers-eliminate-kings-after-4-3-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Draisaitl notches twice as Oilers eliminate Kings after 4-3 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Draisaitl had 2 goals, and the Edmonton Oilers won against the LA Kings 4-3 in Game 5 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB, to triumph in their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round National Hockey League postseason matchup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FIVE &amp; DONE \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Oilers<\/a> defeat the Kings 4-3 in Game 5 to advance to the Second Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoOilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LetsGoOilers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xa15Vp4iKM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Xa15Vp4iKM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/1785895246532133060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oilers eliminated Kings in the opening round for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive season after coming out on top in 6 matches in the past campaign and 7 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Hyman &#8212; with his 7<sup>th<\/sup> goal of the post-campaign &#8212; and Evander Kane also notched for the Canadian NHL franchise, which only dropped a 5-4 defeat in OT of Game 2 in the best-of-7 matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Bouchard finished with 3 assists, and Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had 2 each as the Oilers\u2019 offense broke out at Rogers Place. Connor extended his points total to a postseason-leading 12 (1 goal, 11 assists).<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Skinner stopped 18 shots after posting a shutout in the Oilers\u2019 1-0 victory in California in Game 4.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nothing but respect in the handshake line. \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z934NqPXf1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Z934NqPXf1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1785896958218944524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Adrian Kempe, Alex Laferriere, and Blake Lizotte notched for the Kings, and David Rittich made 22 saves in his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive start.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-15OV1kUSsg?si=zh7gVttqYfQAtJJG\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Draisaitl had 2 goals, and the Edmonton Oilers won against the LA Kings 4-3 in Game 5 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482611,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17007,16851,17844],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17889,17845,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Edmonton advanced to the 2nd round after defeating Los Angeles.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482612,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482610\/revisions\/482612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482610"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482610"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}