EDMONTON, Alberta — Fact: The Kings held the NHL’s leading scorer, Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid, to one point in two playoff games on his home ice.
Conventional wisdom: The Oilers would seem to be in deep trouble.
But conventional wisdom doesn’t account for the skill and will of the Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl, who was the star of Game 2. He factored into the first two goals and created a turnover in the neutral zone to set up Klim Kostin’s game-winner at 2:20 of the third period and then assisted on Evander Kane’s empty-netter with 23 seconds remaining to give the Oilers a 4-2 victory that tied the best-of-seven first-round series on Wednesday night at Rogers Place.
