
PLAYOFFS Game Day Thread
Round 1, Game 4 -- 4/28/24
7:30pm on BSW &




Edmonton Oilers vs Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA



**Game Time 7:30PM**
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Matt Roy (video), Kevin Fiala, & Jim Hiller 4/26 Post-Game Quotes:
Kevin Fiala
On how the team will try and move past a game like this
Learn, forget, both. I mean it’s one game. Obviously we wanted this one, they wanted it, so you just have to take a look at it as it’s one game. Now, we just have to come back next game and make it 2-2.
On what he felt was missing tonight at the start of the game
From the beginning, it feels like we were not there. I think they were more hungry, they had more chances, so we just have to be ready next game.
On the team’s approach to getting it right for Game 4
We got better, obviously, in the second period. We got that goal, but they got it right back too, that killed us a little bit. Right now, it’s 2-1. We have to think positive, obviously we have to look at some things we have to get better and we will, so we have to get the second game [at home].
On Edmonton giving the Kings issues throughout the neutral zone
Yeah, they’re stepping up everything. Every long pass, the D are stepping up, there’s no plays to be made I feel like. We just chip it kind of, but they retrieve it. We have to figure it out. I think we’re going to for sure look at it tomorrow and just be more connected overall.
On trying to contain Edmonton’s top offensive players, as a group
They’re not impossible to stop. We stopped them last game. Obviously they’re very good players, but we have to do a better job.
Jim Hiller
On if he has any issues with the way the third period went
The third, I’m not concerned at all. I saw some emotion, you could say. Did we channel it the right way, I don’t know. I saw some players that were pissed off with the result, with where we were at in the game and didn’t want to go away quietly. I had no issue with that part. First part of the game, we’ve got some issues there. They were above us, we didn’t get it deep, they came back the other way. It’s a pretty simple formula.
On a blueprint to bouncing back from the way Game 2 went
It’s the same thing. People were talking after the last game, but I said what I know for sure is it’s one game to one. So, no different tonight. What I know for sure is it’s two for them, one for us, and you need to win four in the series. We’ll have a similar approach. We’ll get back and we’ll have to play better than we did today, just like Game 2.
On his assessment of the team’s game tonight
It’s a team game and we just didn’t play well enough in the first period. Actually, we came around in the second period a little bit until they scored the fourth goal, that was one that really sunk us I would say at that point because we did have some momentum coming back. We go as a team. We weren’t good enough in the first period, that was a collective for all of us, coaches included. We have to be better in the next game.
On a stronger beginning to the second period and why that was missing to start the game
I don’t want to talk about lessons learned, but we just have to understand, what did we do in the second period that we didn’t do to start the game? What we did was what we did in the second game in Edmonton, we forechecked, and we didn’t do that enough tonight. I think it’s pretty clear, the recipe.
On the team’s approach to trying to slow down Edmonton’s top offensive players
They’re good players, they’ve done it for a long time. You’ve got to find a way and I thought we did a pretty good job in Game 2. So, we’ll just have to make sure we do that same job in Game 4.


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OILERS PROBABLE LINEUP



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