{"id":128929,"date":"2026-01-11T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128929\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:39:24","slug":"adrian-kempe-scores-lone-shootout-goal-to-lift-kings-past-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128929\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Kempe scores lone shootout goal to lift Kings past Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>EDMONTON, Canada\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Adrian Kempe scored the lone goal in a shootout and the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/hockey\/kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kings<\/a> beat the Edmonton Oilers <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/edm-vs-lak\/2026\/01\/10\/2025020709\/boxscore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4-3<\/a> on Saturday night in their first meeting since the first-round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton has eliminated the Kings during the opening round of the playoffs the past four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid scored his 30th goal of the season to tie it 3-3 for Edmonton on a power play with 9:20 to go. He extended his points streak to a career-high 18 games.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Perry, Andre Lee and Alex Laferriere scored in regulation, and Anton Forsberg made 21 saves to help the Kings rebound from a 5-1 loss in Winnipeg on Friday night. The 40-year-old Perry spent the previous two seasons with Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Kings captain Anze Kopitar missed his third straight game with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Leon Draisaitl scored twice for Edmonton, and Connor Ingram stopped 27 shots. McDavid, Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins failed on their shootout attempts for the Oilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Canada\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Adrian Kempe scored the lone goal in a shootout and the Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14993,14995,53794,18693,21256,2070,3317,664,48,52,51,37614,66433,47,50,49,3289,8841,278,5250,66434],"class_list":["post-128929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-adrian-kempe","tag-alex-laferriere","tag-andre-lee","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-corey-perry","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-friday-night","tag-king","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-lone-shootout-goal","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-loss","tag-playoff","tag-season","tag-shot","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}