Despite being in a 2-2 series with the Los Angeles Kings, the Edmonton Oilers must improve their penalty kill. In the postseason, games are won and lost on the strength of your special team’s units.

This has been their series to lose, and after taking a 2-0 series lead, they have been actively killing themselves. The Kings could have 100% swept the Oilers with ease, and they were in the ...

The Edmonton Oilers are going to the Stanley Cup Final for the second consecutive season and will try to win the Stanley Cup ...

The Oilers have capitalized on four of their last five power plays, including Draisaitl’s overtime goal. The penalty kill stymied all three Kings’ man advantages in Game 4, keeping them off ...

The Oilers struggled to manage this change in ... I think Evan Bouchard can be very valuable on the penalty kill. The Kings are not a physical team and especially in the five forward setup.

As the Kings kept putting pucks past Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner on Wednesday ... 10 opportunities after going 0-for-12 and a penalty kill that’s erased all five short-handed situations ...

For Kings forward Warren Foegele and Edmonton Oilers winger Viktor Arvidsson ... by expanding his role defensively and on the penalty kill, while setting career highs offensively (goals, assists ...

But the Oilers didn’t do it alone ... The league disagreed,” the Kings’ coach said. “The next step would have been for us to kill a penalty and that didn’t happen either.

Yet the Oilers should be much less worried about their offense than their defense and penalty-killing, which hasn’t been able to stop the Kings from doing just about anything they want.

EDMONTON --The Edmonton Oilers will attempt to keep from falling into a 3-0 hole against the Los Angeles Kings in Game 3 of ... play and 5-for-5 on the penalty kill. McDavid has four points ...