Kings’ feeble power play results in 6-0 loss to Oilers

The Kings often speak about the necessity of playing to their identity, of being a hard-working, hard-checking team that’s energized by the young legs they’ve filtered into their lineup the past few seasons and empowered by the valiant core four Cup winners who generously pass along their wisdom to the kids.

They found that identity in winning the opening game of their first-round playoff series against Edmonton. They were as far away from that team as possible Wednesday, their identity falling off layer by layer under the relentless physicality and scoring skill of the Oilers in the second and third periods of a 6-0 loss at Rogers Place.

“You lose 1-0, 2-1 or 6-0 it doesn’t really matter. It still counts as one loss,” Kings captain Anze Kopitar said. “We’ll obviously look at it and make adjustments and we realize we’ve got to be better in Game 3.”

Shouldn’t take long to look at it. Their power play was bad enough not only to halt their own momentum but to give life to the Oilers, who scored a short-handed goal in the second period. Edmonton ended a seven-game postseason losing streak in time for the teams’ first-round series to shift to Crypto.com Arena for Game 3 on Friday and Game 4 on Sunday.

“It’s a seven-game series. I think we knew going in we weren’t going to go 16-0 in the playoffs,” defenseman Matt Roy said. “We just need to put it behind us and move forward.”

There’s certainly little sense in looking back at a game that got away from them after a decent first period. They hit the post/crossbar once and had another shot nearly trickle over the goal line in the first 20 minutes but got nowhere on two power plays, a familiar lament.

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