LOS ANGELES — Trevor Moore grew up in close by Thousand Oaks and got here to Los Angeles Kings playoff video games sooner or later hoping to attain his personal postseason second.

On Friday evening it occurred for the 28-year outdated ahead regardless that he wanted to attend just a little bit to ensure it counted.

Moore turned the primary California-born participant to attain a postseason extra time objective for a California-based crew, along with his power-play objective 3:24 into the additional interval giving the Kings a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers and a 2-1 lead within the Western Conference first-round collection.

“It was awesome. Super fun playing in that building. That energy was like nothing else. It was really special,” Moore mentioned after his first objective of the collection and fourth postseason rating of his profession.

Game 4 on Sunday evening in Los Angeles.

The objective was upheld following a prolonged assessment to find out if Gabriel Villardi performed the puck within the nook with a excessive stick. The NHL’s scenario room mentioned there was no conclusive video proof to find out that the puck made contact with Viladri’s stick.

PHOTOS: Moore's OT power-play objective provides Kings 3-2 win over Oilers

“It was a long wait, but wasn’t horrible. Either way know we were going to keep pushing and it was all good,” Moore mentioned of the assessment.

Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft wasn’t blissful that the objective stood and the way the sport was known as.

“It’s a play where the greatest player in the world (Connor McDavid) is 2 feet away as it happens and his arm comes straight up in the air because he knows that it hit the stick. Otherwise, he wouldn’t put his arm up in the air and keep playing,” Woodcroft mentioned. “It appears to me and in video that the puck is going straight up in a trajectory and deadens.”

After Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was known as for high-sticking at 1:44, Moore took Villardi’s cross from behind the web and put it between the legs of goaltender Stuart Skinner to provide the Kings their second OT victory of the collection.

Alex Iafallo and Adrian Kempe additionally scored for the Kings, and Joonas Korpisalo stopped 38 photographs. The Kings had a pair of power-play targets and are 4 for 15 within the collection.

“For us to play Edmonton as close as possible in special situations gives us the best chance of success,” Kings coach Todd McLellan mentioned.

McDavid had a pair of power-play targets for the second multi-goal playoff sport of his profession. Evan Bouchard had a pair of assists, and Skinner made 28 saves.

The Oilers, who led the league with a 32.4% conversion fee on the facility play throughout the common season, are 4 for 8 with the person benefit within the collection.

“It’s a tight-checking series and they seems to be getting the little breaks here and there,” McDavid mentioned. “I like the way we had our looks and chances, but it came down to a power play in overtime.”

SCARY MOMENT

Kings winger Viktor Arvidsson went airborne for a pair seconds and hit the ice laborious after being tripped up by Edmonton’s Darnell Nurse at 5:52 of the primary interval.

Arvidsson was down for a pair minutes earlier than being helped off the ice. He was within the locker room for a pair minutes earlier than returning to the sport.

Nurse was initially known as for a serious penalty earlier than it was reviewed and downgraded to a minor. It was a 4-on-4 scenario as a result of Arvidsson was known as for taking part in with a damaged stick earlier than his incident with Nurse.

ROAD WARRIOR

Leon Draisaitl turned the fourth participant in NHL historical past to have 30 highway factors in 20 or fewer playoff video games when he had the second help on McDavid’s second objective. Draisaitl has 10 targets and 20 assists within the postseason, together with six factors by means of three video games of this collection (three targets, three assists).

Wayne Gretzky (13 video games), Mario Lemieux (16) and Peter Stastny (19) reached 30 factors on the highway in fewer video games.

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