Zach Dooley

2 days ago | lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley

I thought I had the story down for this morning. As I watched last night’s Game 1, I had a pretty defined direction that I thought the story was going to go. Because the game was unfolding a certain way. Pretty clear, I felt. Even as the teams traded goals in the first half of the third period, I thought the storyline stuck. Until it didn’t. And man did it not. But that’s playoff hockey, baby. That was playoff freakin’ hockey. The Kings did not make it easy.

2 days ago | lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley

The LA Kings took Game 1 in thrilling fashion, as they skated to a dramatic, 6-5 victory over the Edmonton Oilers to open up a 1-0 series lead in the first round of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Los Angeles drew an early power play and they made the most of their first chance of the postseason, as forward Andrei Kuzmenko scored his first career playoff goal to put the hosts ahead 1-0.

2 days ago | nhl.com | Zach Dooley

April 22, 2025 If you’re looking at this series from a wider lens, you’d probably wonder what could possibly have changed. I mean, it’s the Kings and the Oilers once again, for the fourth straight season. The Oilers have won the first three matchups, in increasingly shorter fashion, taking a seven-game series in 2022, all the way down to a five-game win in 2024.

2 days ago | nhl.com | Zach Dooley

April 21, 2025 It is a time for jubilant celebration and a time for soul-crushing disappointment. It is a time for trust and belief and a time that will test all you believe in and all that you trust. It is time for the National Hockey League playoffs.

2 days ago | lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley

Los Angeles Kings 1, Edmonton Oilers 012:34 Left, First PeriodGame PreviewWATCH: FanDuel Sports Network, ESPN2LISTEN: ESPN LA 710 + ESPN LA AppSOG: LAK – 2 EDM – 2PP: LAK – 1/1 EDM – 0/1First Period1.