The Oilers paid a bitter price for trading Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles when the Great One led the Kings back from a three-games-to-one deficit in their first postseason meeting. The Kings stopped Mark Messier's Oilers in the first round with a 4-2 Game 5 win in LA, then wrested home ice advantage with a 4-1 win in Edmonton that knotted the series. Fittingly, Gretzky opened and closed the scoring in LA's 6-3 Game 7 victory. The Oilers never found a way to stop unlikely hero Chris Kontos, who scored eight goals in the series.
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