Yamamoto scores late in Game 6 to lift Oilers over Kings, into 2nd round

Kailer Yamamoto scored the late third-period winner for the Edmonton Oilers in a 5-4 win over the Kings in Los Angeles to close out their playoff series Saturday.

Yamamoto scored his first of the playoffs at 16:58 of the third period. He circled to the top of the faceoff circle and threw an off-speed shot through traffic into the top corner of the Los Angeles net.

Klim Kostin scored two goals and had an assist and Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist for the Oilers.

Leon Draisaitl also scored for Edmonton. Defencemen Evan Bouchard and Vincent Desharnais each had two assists.

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Stuart Skinner made a series-high 40 saves for the win.

The Oilers' goalie had the bad luck to break his stick in the third period, which led to a Kings' short-handed goal to tie the game.

Kevin Fiala had a goal and two assists for Los Angeles. Philip Danault scored the short-handed goal and Sean Durzi and Adrian Kempe also scored for the Kings.

Edmonton led 2-1 and 4-3 at period breaks despite getting outshot 33-19 over two periods.

Danault scored the short-handed equalizer at 6:42 of the third.

Skinner appeared to break his stick on an up-ice pass, which left the puck in front of the crease for Danault to chip over the sprawling goalie.

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Kostin collected his second of the game pouncing on a loose puck in the slot at 10:54 of the second period to make it 4-3 for the visitors.

Fiala had pulled the Kings even with a power-play goal at 8:16 when he slung a shot by Skinner's glove.

Fiala, who sat out the first three games of the series with a lower-body injury, produced a goal and five assists after rejoining the