Kings rally past the Oilers for 7-4 victory

Edmonton Coach Craig MacTavish didn’t exactly try to sugarcoat the Oilers’ disappointing performance against the Kings.

“It was unbelievable,” MacTavish said after the Kings rallied for a 7-4 victory Thursday night. “Just painful to watch. We’ve been poor in our own end for the majority of the losses we’ve had in the last little while.

“We were brutal. We were dangerous in both ends and it ended up costing us again.”

Alexander Frolov had a goal and two assists and Dustin Brown, Rob Blake, Lubomir Visnovsky, Alyn McCauley, Sean Avery and Brian Willsie also scored for the Kings.

Ryan Smyth, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Jarret Stoll and Fernando Pisani scored for Edmonton.

Smyth was back in the lineup less than a month after breaking a thumb. Despite missing most of December, Smyth leads the Oilers with 17 goals.

“Obviously we still had the turkey legs,” said Smyth, who led the Oilers with seven shots on goal. “We were playing a pond hockey game there and with the offensive power they have over there they were able to capitalize on their chances.”

Smyth gave Edmonton a 3-2 lead with a power-play goal early in the second period, and Stoll made it 4-2 just 32 seconds later with another power-play goal.

The Kings countered with a power-play goal of their own later in the period when Blake scored the first of the Kings’ five straight goals.

After Frolov tied it, 4-4, Avery put the Kings ahead to stay with 1:59 remaining in the second. Visnovsky and McCauley, into the empty net, scored in the third.