EDMONTON, Canada —
For those who feel the Kings-Oilers playoff series is a lot of deja-vu all over again, Quinton Byfield says you’ve got it all wrong.
For the third year in a row the two teams split the first two games of their first-round NHL playoff series, with the Kings evening things Wednesday on Anze Kopitar’s goal 2:07 into overtime of Game 2. So for the third year in a row, the teams will reconvene in Los Angeles on Friday tied at a game apiece.
The last two times that happened, Edmonton went on to win the series.