Pre-Scout: Kings renew hostilities with Oilers after handing Jets first win in forever
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11.01.2026
When the Edmonton Oilers left Winnipeg on Thursday night, the Jets looked demoralized. They’d blown yet another lead and flailed down the stretch of another winnable game. Twenty-four hours later, those same down-bad Jets snapped their 11-game losing skid against the Oilers’ opponent on Saturday night – the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings may have still been reeling from a gutwrenching overtime loss to San Jose on Wednesday, where LA got Macklin’d and Celebrini’d their way to two points in a late comeback. But the underlying issues of struggling to score reared their head, and Darcy Kuemper allowed five goals on just sixteen Winnipeg shots to lose 5-1. Kuemper was yanked to start the third period. “It’s hard, you have to go back through and look at it again, but we started fine,” said coach Jim Hillier post-game. “Really, it was probably their power play, I think, got some momentum with five minutes left in the first period. I didn’t think they had much prior to that, besides the goal.” Los Angeles allowed Vlad Namestikov to end a 27-game goalscoring drought. Jonathan Toews ended a 30-gamer. It was one of those nights, perhaps, but now the Kings have a quick back-to-back for their first matchup against the Oilers this year. “I think we had a couple unfortunate bounces against us, but other than that, I........
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