{"id":502707,"date":"2026-02-27T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502707\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:57:08","slug":"mcdavid-reaches-100-points-oilers-cruise-past-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502707\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid reaches 100 points, Oilers cruise past Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darcy Kuemper<\/a> allowed four goals on 15 shots before being replaced midway through the second period for the Kings (23-21-14), who were coming off a 6-4 loss against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday and are 0-4-1 in their past five games. Anton Forsberg<\/a>\u00a0made 18 saves in relief.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is three points behind the Seattle Kraken for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, 24 (games remaining) seems a lot, but we’ve got to get on track here real, real quick,\u201d Kings captain Anze Kopitar<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cIt\u2019s obviously getting to a point where teams from the outside looking in, the chances are slimming down if you\u2019re not on the inside. So, we’ve got to get there, obviously, and start winning games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Los Angeles coach Jim Hiller said he was not concerned about his immediate job security after hearing multiple chants of \u201cFire Hiller\u201d throughout the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy focus is on trying to win on Saturday (against the Calgary Flames),\u201d Hiller said. \u201cWe sign up for this job. I think you\u2019re probably always concerned when you got a job in the coaching world, so that\u2019s just something that\u2019s always tucked away. But what overrides all of that is trying to get your team to win games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ty Emberson<\/a> put Edmonton up 1-0 at 7:25 of the first period, scoring on a 3-on-2 rush with a wrist shot from the right circle that went in off Kuemper\u2019s left shoulder.<\/p>\n

Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> made it 2-0 at 8:19 with a wrist shot from the left circle that trickled under Kuemper\u2019s glove arm.<\/p>\n

Warren Foegele<\/a> cut it to 2-1 at 12:15 when he redirected Joel Edmundson<\/a>\u2019s shot from along the left boards short side on Ingram, who didn’t appear to see it.<\/p>\n

The Oilers extended their lead to 3-1 at 2:59 of the second period after Andrew Mangiapane<\/a>\u00a0elected to keep the puck on a 2-on-1 rush and scored glove side on a wrist shot from the left circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe scored off the rush a couple times just by defending well,\u201d Hyman said.<\/p>\n

McDavid made it 4-1 at 4:58. He pulled Kuemper out of position at the left post before skating around the net and out into the right circle, where he shot into an open net over a sprawling Drew Doughty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kuemper was pulled for Forsberg during the next television timeout.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, we’ve got to keep the pucks out of our net,\u201d Kopitar said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s structure, individual effort, sacrifice, blocking shots, winning face-offs, you name it, all of the above.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darcy Kuemper allowed four goals on 15 shots before being replaced midway through the second period for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-502707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}