Evander Kane and Evan Bouchard scored in a 10-second span in the third period and the Edmonton Oilers beat Los Angeles 7-4 on Friday night to cut the Kings’ series lead to 2-1.

In last year’s playoffs (25 games), the McDavid line combined with the Bouchard pairing outscored opponents 23-8 (74 percent) at five-on-five in 347 minutes. That kind of high-octane performance (3.98 GF-60 for the line) turned a five-on-five shift into a power play.

The Edmonton Oilers are down 0-2 in their first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings and return home to head into Game 3. While it has been a familiar story for the Oilers in previous postseasons with their head-to-head matchups with the Kings,