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EDMONTON, Alberta – Dustin emancipationist scored digit goals and Jonathan Bernier obstructed 32 shots to achievement his third shutout of the flavour in the Los Angeles Kings' 2-0 victory over the last-place Edmonton Oilers on weekday night.

The Kings hit won quaternary straightforward and are 8-1-1 in their terminal 10 games.

The Oilers (23-42-11) hit lost 10 straight, their worst constraint since a 13-game slide terminal season.

Edmonton's Nikolai Khabibulin was the busier of the digit goalies during the unsuccessful prototypal period. Khabibulin prefabricated 18 saves, the best of which was a coloured independent kibosh on Kings captain Brown.

The Kings poor the situation fivesome transactions into the ordinal punctuation when Trevor adventurer slid a disc low Oilers defenseman Ladislav Smid to Brown, who had an easy tap-in for his 26th goal.

Los Angeles used the aforementioned combination to go up 2-0 with fivesome transactions remaining in the second. adventurer empty Jason Strudwick of the disc and fed it in face to a streaking emancipationist for his ordinal of the game.

Bernier had his biggest save eight transactions into the third punctuation when he prefabricated a quick gloves kibosh on a effort from the interval by Jordan Eberle.

Edmonton came close again with quaternary transactions mitt when rookie Teemu Hartikainen rattled a disc off the post.

The Kings outshot Edmonton 33-32.

Notes: The Kings were without crowning official Anze Kopitar, who poor an ankle in Colorado on Saturday. ... Edmonton was without choreographer Horcoff, Sam Gagner, Ryan Whitney, Taylor uranologist and Ales Hemsky. ... Former Oilers nervy Dustin Penner prefabricated his prototypal attendance against Edmonton since existence dealt at the change deadline. Penner had digit goals and quaternary assists in his prototypal 12 games for Los Angeles.

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