LOS ANGELES — The Kings roared to a 6-5 victory in Game 1 of their first-round Stanley Cup Playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers at Crypto.com Arena on Monday night.

They led the game 4-0 through 39:55 of the game, delivering a solid punch to the mouth to the team that knocked them out of three consecutive first rounds. The Kings even dominated the special-teams battle, scoring twice with the extra man and allowing nothing shorthanded. But they had to fend off a late rally of five goals in 20:05, including two in 36 seconds, from Edmonton.

Phillip Danault’s second goal of the game was the game-winner with a mere 41 seconds remaining in regulation.

Andrei Kuzmenko and Adrian Kempe had matching totals of a goal and two assists. Kevin Fiala and Quinton Byfield each scored and added a helper. Darcy Kuemper turned aside 20 bids.

Edmonton star Connor McDavid had a goal and three primary assists. Leon Draisaitl and Corey Perry had a goal and an assist apiece. Mattias Janmark tallied and Evan Bouchard had three helpers. Stuart Skinner made 24 saves.

The Kings struck twice in each of the first two periods and wrangled complete control of the game from Edmonton in the second frame, relenting only with five seconds left.

It only took 2:49 of this year’s series for the Kings to score more power-play goals than they did in all five playoff games last season. Fittingly, it was Kuzmenko, their trade-deadline bargain turned offensive catalyst. The Kings’ five-forward unit overwhelmed the Oilers to the point where Fiala’s seam pass could have been tipped past Skinner by Byfield almost as easily as it was by Kuzmenko at the back post.

Byfield would make it 2-0 when he knocked Drew Doughty’s shot out of the air with his glove and shoveled it toward the net, where it banked home off Skinner’s back with 33 seconds left.

The Kings’ shot suppression game, fueled by Vladislav Gavrikov but moved forward by practically every skater, took hold late in the first period, carrying into the second, when they struck twice more.

At the 14:47 mark, Bouchard’s Teddy Ruxpin-soft clearing attempt was gobbled up by Kempe, who nearly scored unassisted. Instead, he had to await a recovery and Kuzmenko’s feed for a goal that sent the Swede skipping across the ice with his tongue out like Michael Jordan.

Bouchard served up another pizza, this time to Byfield in the slot. He slid the puck a few inches to Danault, whose wrist shot made it 4-0. Byfield and Fiala had applied forecheck pressure to key the sequence.

The Oilers went 16 minutes with a shot on goal and had just 10 through 40 minutes, but their tenth got them on the board with 4.7 seconds showing on the second-period clock. McDavid pivoted hard off Anže Kopitar to force an abrupt defensive rotation, opening up Draisaitl for a one-timer from the right circle. McDavid and Draisaitl now have 74 points in 19 playoff games against the Kings over four postseasons.

Edmonton got another goal off Janmark’s crease-crashing effort 2:19 into the third period.

After Hyman illegally checked Brandt Clarke in the head and Jake Walman cross-checked Danault in the face, the Kings had a two-man advantage and their second power-play marker of the evening. It was Kempe serving up Fiala’s one-timer from high in the right circle. Kempe and Kuzmenko, who had the secondary assist, both earned their third points of the night.

That goal proved even more critical when McDavid made another play off a powerful turn, this time shaking Gavrikov and sliding the puck across for Perry’s redirection at 7:43.

Edmonton soon found itself facing another two-man disadvantage, this time for a full two minutes after Walman shot the puck out of play and the Oilers lost a subsequent challenge. Though the Kings sustained pressure for 90 seconds, they did not extend their edge.

McDavid made things even more interesting when with 2:04 to play in regulation he weaved into the slot and slipped the puck past a prone Doughty to Hyman to make it 5-4.

Then McDavid did it himself, driving the net and knifing the puck past Kuemper with 1:28 left.

With overtime looming, a Kings’ counterattack initiated by Gavrikov and Trevor Moore found a trailing Danaut for a clean look at the net with 41.1 displayed on the clock that won the game.