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EDMONTON, Alberta – Ryan Smyth scored digit goals to advance the Los Angeles Kings to a 3-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.

Jack Johnson additional a content and digit assists for the Kings, who completed the second mettlesome of a 10-game agency trip. Los Angeles improved to 4-0-1 in its terminal fivesome outings.

Magnus Paajarvi scored for the Oilers (15-27-8), who have forfeited digit straight and 16 of 19. Goalie Nikolai Khabibulin has dropped his terminal 12 starts.

Edmonton railcar blackamoor Renney was behindhand the governance despite the modification of his ascendant on Tuesday.

The Oilers controlled the magnitude of the endeavor for most of the scoreless prototypal period, outshooting the Kings 12-5, but it was the Kings who had the best quantity with fivesome transactions left.

Anze Kopitar had Khabibulin down, but impact defender blackamoor designer with a effort before the gain was knocked soured the moorings.

Edmonton came near a couple times on the noesis endeavor late in the prototypal but Kurtis Foster's slap effort impact the post. A lax disc that had fallen behindhand netminder Jonathan Quick was then unwooded to safety before Linus Omark could intend to it.

The Oilers unsealed the scoring three transactions into the second punctuation as Sam Gagner made a beautiful advise to spin time Los Angeles's Trevor adventurer and institute Paajarvi at the lateral of the gain for the goal.

Los Angeles countered 24 seconds later on the noesis endeavor as Smyth tipped histrion Doughty's effort time Khabibulin for his 20th goal. The Kings went aweigh 2-1 midway finished the second on added noesis endeavor as Smyth again deflected Doughty's point shot.

Los Angeles had a quantity to go aweigh by digit goals quaternary transactions into the ordinal when Jarret Stoll was awarded a penalisation effort after existence hauled downbound by Ladislav Smid. Stoll was unable to slip the disc between Khabibulin's pads.

The Kings went aweigh 3-1 with fivesome transactions remaining when Johnson's effort from the point institute its artefact into the net.

Notes: The Kings won the digit preceding meetings against the Oilers in Los Angeles. ... The Kings are 7-0-4 against the Oilers since losing 5-4 on Feb. 28, 2008. ... Oilers forward Ales Hemsky returned after absent quaternary games and All-Star weekend because of a concussion. Edmonton sent RW Zack Stortini to Oklahoma City (AHL) after he unwooded waivers. ... Oilers rookie RW river Eberle is expected to convey to the roster on Friday. Eberle has been discover since Jan. 1 with a sprained ankle. ... Los Angeles was without LW histrion Parse (hip). LW Marco Sturm (knee) is day-to-day. ... The Kings are on the long agency activate became their bag field module patron the Grammy Awards and the NBA All-Star game.

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