VIDEO ⟩ “Oilers” advance to the second round. NHL champion Vegas is close to being eliminated from the “play-off”

The “Oilers” beat the Los Angeles “Kings” at home with a score of 4:3 (1:1, 3:1, 0:1) and reached 4-1 in the series to four victories.

Vancouver “Canucks” represented by forward Teodoras Blüger and goalkeeper Artūrs Shilovs or Nashville “Predators” will face each other in the semi-finals of the conference. In this series, the unit represented by Latvians is in the lead with 3-2.

In the second period, after Leon Draisaitl’s second goal in this match, “Oilers” achieved 3:2 and in the continuation did not give the opponents the opportunity to equalize the result. Zack Hyman and Evander Kane scored one more goal each for the Edmontonians, Evan Bouchard had three assists, and Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had two each.

Adrian Kempe, Blake Lizotte and Alex Laferriere scored for the Kings.

“Oilers” goalkeeper Stuart Skinner caught 18 pucks, and “Kings” puck catcher David Rittich – four more.

In another quarterfinal of the Western Conference, the Dallas “Stars” defeated the current champion Vegas “Golden Knights” 3:2 (2:2, 1:0, 0:0) at home.

The Dallas team is leading the series 3-2, thus the “Golden Knights” are one loss away from being crowned champions.

In the first period, both teams exchanged two goals in less than nine minutes. Mark Stone put the Vegas people in the lead, Yevgenii Dadonov and Matt Duchaine responded with accurate shots, and William Carrier made it 2:2.

Jason Robertson scored the winning goal in the 17th minute of the second period, for whom it was the third perfect shot in the Stanley Cup this season.

Jake Ottinger had 25 saves in the winning goal, and Edin Hill had 22 in the second.

In the second period, Stars star Tyler Seguin was ejected for a hit to the head of Shea Theodore, but later in the third he took a hit himself from Alex Pietrangelo. Both received only two-minute penalties for their violations, Robertson making it 3-2 during Pietrangelo’s penalty.

In the previous season, the Vegas “Golden Knights” beat the Florida “Panthers” 4-1 in the final series, and Theodore Blüger became the winner of the Stanley Cup as part of the Vegas team.