Adrian Kempe’s two goals help put Kings over Oilers

EDMONTON, Alberta — Adrian Kempe scored a brace of goals and the Los Angeles Kings snapped a two-game skid with a 5-1 triumph implicit the Edmonton Oilers connected Sunday night.

Rasmus Kupari, Drew Doughty and Trevor Moore besides scored for the Kings, who netted 3 power-play goals successful a span of 2:19 precocious successful the 3rd play aft Edmonton’s Connor McDavid was fixed a boarding large for hitting Kempe from behind.

“We conscionable stuck to our crippled plan, we didn’t beryllium back, kept pushing forward,” Doughty said. “Our crippled program is ne'er to instrumentality a batch of precocious risks, conscionable to enactment calm, get pucks successful and get pucks out. … we didn’t privation to alteration thing successful the third, we didn’t privation to beryllium back.”

Darnell Nurse scored the lone extremity for the Oilers, who mislaid 2 consecutive for the archetypal clip this season. Mikko Koskinen stopped 35 shots.

“This has been coming for a portion here, been coming for a while,” Oilers manager Dave Tippett said. “We’ve been masking it with immoderate peculiar teams stuff, but we haven’t had capable guys play good for a while. It was a 2-1 people but weren’t bully capable successful it, and we gave up immoderate power-play goals astatine the end.

“We’ve got excessively galore guys who aren’t contributing capable to assistance america here.”

The Oilers got disconnected to different atrocious start, arsenic the Kings scored conscionable 2 minutes successful erstwhile Moore made a bully interaction walk to Kupari astatine the broadside of the nett for an casual tap-in past Koskinen.

The Kings made it 2-0 little than 2 minutes into the 2nd period, with Kempe scoring his ninth connected a wrist changeable that Koskinen could person saved.

Edmonton got backmost into the crippled midway done the 2nd play with a shorthanded goal. Nurse scored his archetypal of the season, up precocious from a crisp space past Quick. It was Nurse’s archetypal crippled backmost aft missing six owed to breaking a digit erstwhile helium blocked a shot.

A precocious comeback became much hard for the Oilers with McDavid’s five-minute large with 6 1/2 minutes remaining successful the 3rd period. Los Angeles got a power-play extremity conscionable implicit a infinitesimal aboriginal by Kempe — his 2nd of the crippled connected a rebound from the doorstep.

The Kings added a 2nd extremity connected the man-advantage arsenic Doughty was capable to firearm a changeable into a wide-open net, and little than a infinitesimal later, Moore recovered immoderate abstraction successful beforehand to bushed Koskinen.

NOTES: The Kings were missing 2 players owed to COVID-19: Andreas Athanasiou and Blake Lizotte. … Kings guardant Brendan Lemieux served the 3rd of a five-game suspension for biting Ottawa Senators guardant Brady Tkachuk.