Kings can’t stop Oilers in last period

Ryan Smyth had two goals and two assists and Ales Hemsky had a goal and three assists as the Edmonton Oilers ended a two-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the Kings on Saturday night.

Shawn Horcoff also scored and had two assists, and backup goalie Jussi Markkanen stopped 32 shots for the Oilers.

Michael Cammalleri, Patrick O’Sullivan and Brian Willsie scored for the last-place Kings, losers of seven of their last eight. Sean Burke, making his third start since being picked up on waivers, had 27 saves.

Trailing, 3-2, the Oilers tied the score at 1:07 of the third as Smyth took a shot that hit Burke up high and Horcoff knocked in the rebound. Edmonton got the winner at 7:58 when Steve Staios’ shot from the point bounced off Burke and then caromed off Smyth and into the goal.

The Oilers got to Burke 2:48 into the first period as Horcoff passed the puck back to a trailing Smyth, who found the corner for his 24th of the season.

The Kings tied the score as Cammalleri’s shot from the point with 28 seconds left in the period eluded a screened Markkanen.

The Oilers reclaimed the advantage 49 seconds into the second when Smyth made a no-look pass from behind the net to Horcoff, who tipped it to a waiting Hemsky, to go up 2-1.

Los Angeles tied it again at 11:05 on the power play as Lubomir Visnovsky’s initial shot hit a post, was kept out by defenseman Matt Greene, then picked up by O’Sullivan, who lifted it up.

The Kings then took the lead at 13:17 when Greene gave up the puck to Willsie at the Los Angeles blue line. The Kings came in on a three-on-one with Willsie shooting it into corner, glove-side, on Markkanen.

Los Angeles outshot Edmonton 35-31, including 16-5 in the second.

The Kings wrap up their three-game trip at Calgary on Tuesday.