shots in a home game all season in Game 5 with 46.

Andrei Kuzmenko scored on a power play and goaltender Darcy Kuemper did his best to steal the game with 43 saves after making 44 in Sunday’s Game 4.

But Evander Kane, Mattias Janmark and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each scored a goal for Edmonton. Calvin Pickard moved to 3-0-0 in the series by making 21 saves.

The Kings were a top-10 team in the third period during the season but their woes persisted on Tuesday, as they slunk down to a 13-5 third-period deficit (plus a 1-0 hole in overtime).

A relatively miraculous 1-1 tie was broken at the 7:12 mark by a familiar face when former Kings winger Viktor Arvidsson ripped a far-side shot off an odd-man rush that gave Janmark an easy putback for the go-ahead Oilers goal.

With 57.8 seconds showing on the game clock, Nugent-Hopkins heaped dirt on the Kings’ grave with an empty-net goal.

Trailing 33-12 in shots and having accumulated a meager 16% of the first 40 minutes’ expected goals, per Natural Stat Trick, the Kings still managed to earn the first goal of the game, 3:33 into the second period. They found themselves back in a tie game less than three minutes later, a stalemate that stood at the second intermission.

The Kings’ power play scored the first goal of the game, just as it did in Games 1 and 2, when captain Anže Kopitar let fly with a shot attempt from the left point that redirected to Pickard’s glove side by Kuzmenko. Kuzmenko now has three goals and six points in the postseason, all coming at home.

Kopitar’s assist moved him within one point of Luc Robitaille for second on the all-time Kings postseason scoring list on a night when Drew Doughty skated in his 100th career playoff game.

But a tripping penalty on Doughty gave Edmonton its second man advantage of the night, and it scored seven seconds after it expired. The Oilers swarmed the net and nearly got a goal from Zach Hyman before a shot recovery and a keep-in at the blue line kept the sequence going. It culminated in Kane sniping a far-side shot from just inside the right faceoff circle for his second goal of the series and his 14th playoff goal against the Kings in the past four postseasons (23 games).

Negative momentum from the Kings’ pair of heart-wrenching losses in Edmonton carried over into an opening salvo for the Oilers that saw them hit the net 19 times to the Kings’ four. In all, the Kings were outshot 52-17 in the third period and overtime of Game 4 combined with the first period of Game 5.

The game remained scoreless thanks to Kuemper.