Adrian Kempe scored two goals, including the game-winner 1:12 into overtime, to give the visiting Los Angeles Kings a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 5 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series on Tuesday night.

Kempe, who also had an assist, took control of the puck in the neutral zone and then rushed up the right wing and cut inside a diving Duncan Keith and slid a forehand shot around the right pad of goaltender Mike Smith for the game-winner.

Phillip Danault, Troy Stecher and Andreas Athanasiou also scored goals for Los Angeles, which took a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick made 24 saves while making his 90th consecutive playoff start.

Leon Draisaitl had two goals and an assist, Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists and Zack Kassian also scored for Edmonton. Smith finished with 38 saves.

Hurricanes 5, Bruins 1

Seth Jarvis scored twice and Carolina moved one win away from advancing to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs by beating Boston in Raleigh, N.C.

Vincent Trocheck and Tony DeAngelo had a goal and two assists and Teuvo Teravainen had three assists for the Hurricanes, who lead the best-of-seven series 3-2. Antti Raanta made 33 saves. Sebastian Aho had two assists to reach 40 career playoff points, moving past Rod Brind’Amour and Ron Francis into sole possession of second place in franchise history.

Connor Clifton scored and Jeremy Swayman made 33 saves for the Bruins.

Maple Leafs 4, Lightning 3

Auston Matthews scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and Toronto rallied past visiting Tampa Bay to take a 3-2 lead in a first-round Eastern Conference playoff series.

William Nylander had a goal and two assists for the Maple Leafs. John Tavares added a goal and an assist, and Morgan Rielly also scored. Toronto’s Jack Campbell had a solid game in goal with some big saves among the 32 shots he stopped.

Steven Stamkos, Victor Hedman and Ryan McDonagh scored for the Lightning. Nikita Kucherov added two assists and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 21 saves for Tampa Bay.

Blues 5, Wild 2

Vladimir Tarasenko scored three goals, all in the third period, to lead visiting St. Louis to a win against Minnesota in Game 5 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series in Saint Paul, Minn.

Ryan O’Reilly scored for the third straight game, Brandon Saad also scored and Jordan Binnington made 30 saves for the Blues, who took a 3-2 series lead.

Kirill Kaprizov scored two power-play goals to give him seven tallies in the series for the Wild, who were leading 2-1 midway through the game. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 27 shots in the defeat.

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Adrian Kempe scored two goals, including the game-winner 1:12 into overtime, to give the visiting Los Angeles Kings a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 5 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series on Tuesday night.

Kempe, who also had an assist, took control of the puck in the neutral zone and then rushed up the right wing and cut inside a diving Duncan Keith and slid a forehand shot around the right pad of goaltender Mike Smith for the game-winner.

Phillip Danault, Troy Stecher and Andreas Athanasiou also scored goals for Los Angeles, which took a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 is Thursday night in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Quick made 24 saves. It was the 90th consecutive playoff start for Quick, the eighth-longest streak in NHL history.

Leon Draisaitl had two goals and an assist, Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists and Zack Kassian also scored for Edmonton. Smith finished with 38 saves.

The Kings, coming off a 4-0 victory on Sunday in Los Angeles, picked up where they left off with a dominating first period, outshooting the Oilers 16-5, including 14-2 over the first 16 minutes.

Stecher scored the only goal in the period at the 3:53 mark with a slap shot from the top of the right circle through traffic and inside the far left post for his second goal of the playoffs.

Edmonton tied it 1-1 early in the second period on Kassian’s first goal of the playoffs. McDavid set up the score, circling behind the goal and then backhanding a pass to Kassian standing by the left side of the crease. Kassian then shoveled a shot inside the right post to snap a personal scoreless drought of nearly 83 minutes.

But Los Angeles answered with two goals in the span of four minutes midway through the period to build a 3-1 lead, taking advantage of a pair of Edmonton turnovers in its own end in the process.

Kempe made it 2-1 with his first career playoff goal. Alex Iafallo helped set up the score when he intercepted Keith’s clearing pass and fed Anze Kopitar in the slot. Kopitar then passed to Kempe in the right circle, where he fired a wrist shot five-hole on Smith.

Dustin Brown set up the next Kings score when he intercepted Brett Kulak’s clearing pass and then found Athanasiou on the left doorstep, where he flipped it into the back of the net for his first playoff goal of the season.

Edmonton cut it to 3-2 early in the third period on a power-play goal by McDavid, who scooped up a puck in the left circle and then went in and roofed a backhand shot over Quick for his second goal of the playoffs.

When Ryan McLeod was called for a four-minute high-sticking penalty on Matt Roy, the Kings increased their lead to 4-2 with a power-play tally by Danault, who redirected a Kempe shot for his third goal of the playoffs.

Edmonton rallied to tie it on a pair of goals by Draisaitl, the first with the Oilers short-handed. The second came on a power play, when he one-timed a crossing pass from McDavid from the bottom of the right circle for his fifth goal of the playoffs with 4:52 remaining in regulation.

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Vladimir Tarasenko scored three goals, all in the third period, to lead the visiting St. Louis Blues to a 5-2 win against the Minnesota Wild in Game 5 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series on Tuesday in Saint Paul, Minn.

Ryan O’Reilly scored for the third straight game, Brandon Saad also scored and Jordan Binnington made 30 saves for the Blues, who took a 3-2 series lead.

Game 6 of the best-of-seven set is Thursday in St. Louis.

Kirill Kaprizov scored two power-play goals to give him seven tallies in the series for the Wild, who were leading 2-1 midway through the game. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 27 shots in the defeat.

The Blues took a 3-2 lead at 1:03 of the third period. St. Louis dumped the puck in the Minnesota zone and Pavel Buchnevich got to it first behind the net before passing to Tarasenko in front for the one-timer.

Tarasenko then scored off a rush on a wrist shot from above the right circle to make it 4-2 at 2:31.

Tarasenko finished off the hat trick by scoring into an empty net for a 5-2 lead with 1:33 left.

The Blues took an early lead with their sixth power-play goal of the series.

O’Reilly was the first player to reach a loose puck in front of the Minnesota net, and he shot it past Fleury for a 1-0 lead at 4:53 of the first period.

Minnesota went on its first power play when Nick Leddy was called for interference at 12:11 of the first period, and Kaprizov scored for the fourth straight game to tie it 1-1 at 13:15.

Kaprizov drew a slashing penalty on Robert Thomas and then scored his second goal short-side over Binnington’s right shoulder for a 2-1 lead with 2:53 left in the opening period.

Saad tied it 2-2 at 15:28 of the second period when he redirected a centering pass from Jordan Kyrou.

Kaprizov passed Wes Walz and Marian Gaborik for the most goals by a Minnesota player in one series.

Binnington won his 18th playoff game with the Blues, breaking the team record he previously shared with Mike Liut and Greg Millen.

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Auston Matthews scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied past the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 Tuesday night in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.

Toronto leads the best-of-seven Easter Conference series 3-2 with Game 6 at Tampa Bay on Thursday.

William Nylander had a goal and two assists for Toronto. John Tavares added a goal and an assist, and Morgan Rielly also scored.

Jack Campbell had a solid game in goal with some big saves among the 32 shots he stopped for the Maple Leafs.

Steven Stamkos, Victor Hedman and Ryan McDonagh scored for the Lightning. Nikita Kucherov added two assists and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 21 saves for Tampa Bay.

Behind 2-1 after 40 minutes, Toronto scored twice early in the third period when the teams were playing with four skaters each. Rielly scored on a 26-footer at 3:01 of the third period, and Nylander scored from the left circle at 4:14.

McDonagh’s shot from the left circle found the top corner to tie the game at 8:17 of the third.

Soon after Campbell made a superb save, Matthews finished a breakout by scoring on the rebound from Mitchell Marner’s shot at 13:54.

Tampa Bay took a 2-0 lead in the first period with two goals a minute apart. Stamkos scored from the slot at 5:19 of the first on a pass from Kucherov.

Hedman scored a power-play goal at 6:11 on a shot from the high slot through traffic. TJ Brodie was off for hooking.

Tampa Bay had a two-man advantage for 30 seconds but could not score. Nylander, the first player penalized, had a breakaway after leaving the box and was stopped by Vasilevskiy.

Tampa Bay led 14-4 in shots on goal after one period.

Tavares scored a power-play goal on a deflection of Nylander’s shot at 3:35 of the second period. Tampa Bay had been penalized for having too many men on the ice.

Against the flow of the game at 15:15 of the second, the Lightning’s Ondrej Palat had a breakaway after a steal in the neutral zone, but Campbell stopped him.

Tampa Bay had a 23-18 advantage in shots on goal after two periods.

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Seth Jarvis scored twice and the Carolina Hurricanes moved one win away from advancing to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 5-1 Game 5 victory against the visiting Boston Bruins on Tuesday.

Vincent Trocheck and Tony DeAngelo had a goal and two assists, and Teuvo Teravainen had three assists for the Hurricanes, who lead the best-of-seven series 3-2.

Sebastian Aho had two assists to reach 40 career playoff points, moving past Rod Brind’Amour and Ron Francis into sole possession of second place in franchise history.

Antti Raanta made 33 saves for Carolina.

Connor Clifton scored and Jeremy Swayman made 33 saves for the Bruins.

The Bruins had the early pressure, jumping out to a 6-2 shot advantage just over five minutes into the first period.

But it was the home side that struck first. DeAngelo walked the blue line before dishing a backhand feed to Slavin along the right wall. Slavin skated to the right faceoff dot, sending a shot that trickled by Swayman far side at 6:11 of the opening frame.

DeAngelo made it 2-0 on the power play at 12:17 when Teravainen fed the defenseman for a slap shot from the blue line.

Jarvis pushed it to 3-0 at 15:52 of the second period. Swayman stopped a shot by Aho from the slot but couldn’t control the rebound. Jarvis, on the doorstep, swiped at the loose puck as he fell to the ice. His shot hit the leg of Bruins forward Jake DeBrusk and bounced up and over Swayman.

Jarvis connected on the power play to extend it to 4-0 at 3:31 of the third period. Trochek deflected DeAngelo’s point shot that landed in the crease behind Swayman, and Jarvis pushed home the loose puck for his second of the night.

Clifton broke the shutout bid at 10:09, when he drove to the net and slid the puck five-hole on Raanta.

Trocheck scored into an empty net to make it 5-1 at 16:20.

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