Here are three takeaways from the Golden Knights’ 4-2 loss in Game 1 of their second-round series against the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena:

1. Oilers seal the deal

The Knights are among the best in the NHL when it comes to closing out a late lead at home in the postseason.

But they ran into a wagon Tuesday.

Edmonton scored three times in the final 20 minutes to snap the Knights’ 19-game winning streak when leading at home in the third period in the playoffs.

The Oilers have now outscored opponents 12-1 in the third period their last five games, a stretch that dates back to their first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings. Edmonton is the first team in NHL history with five straight comeback wins in a single postseason.

“It’s great we can come back,” said Oilers right Corey Perry, who scored Edmonton’s first goal late in the first period to cut the Knights’ lead to 2-1. “But it’d be nice if we could get on the other side of things and push forward with the lead.”

Right wing Zach Hyman was the hero for the Oilers, scoring the game-winning goal with 3:02 remaining. Right wing Connor Brown added an insurance goal with 1:46 left.

The Knights are going to need to find a way to keep Edmonton from scoring late if they want to advance to the Western Conference Final. That hasn’t been a problem for them in the past. They had won 26 straight in the playoffs when holding at least a two-goal lead before Tuesday, according to the ESPN broadcast.

“If you could pick a period you’re going to be strongest in as a coach, you want to be best in the third period because that’s what it’s going to come down to,” Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said. “I’ve been very happy with our third periods.”

2. Surviving the second

The Knights did protect a 2-1 lead in the second period, but they were flirting with disaster the entire frame.

The Oilers had 12 shots on goal and allowed just one. They also had a lopsided advantage in scoring chances (14-3) and high-danger scoring chances (5-0), according to the website Natural Stat Trick.

“I’m not sure,” captain Mark Stone said of what changed in the second period for the Knights. “They got some good o-zone time, obviously. I didn’t think we gave up a ton of grade A chances and we were keeping them to the outside, but they got into the game and started feeling good about themselves.”

To the Knights’ credit, they did keep the puck out of the net. Goaltender Adin Hill stood tall. The Knights’ structure in their own zone was firm. They did a decent job of preventing good chances from becoming great ones.

That was especially true on the penalty kill. Both center Nicolas Roy and defenseman Zach Whitecloud took penalties away from the puck, but the Knights didn’t allow a goal either time. They gave up just one high-danger scoring chance to Edmonton on those two kills.

Still, the Knights were on their heels much of the second period and appeared to later pay the price. They allowed the Oilers to tie the game 57 seconds into the third.

“They elevated their game today and I don’t think we did, halfway through the game,” Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said. “They were just better than us and you could almost see from the bench we needed to string some positive shifts together to start the third because we got out of the second, but they were feeling pretty good about themselves. Then they get a lucky one to start and now they’re really on.”

3. Missing pieces

The Knights had to do some lineup shuffling in Game 1 with defenseman Alex Pietrangelo, the team’s leader in average time on ice, out with an illness.

Defenseman Kaedan Korczak, who had 10 points in 40 regular-season games, made his playoff debut in place of Pietrangelo. He took the veteran’s spot to the right of defenseman Nic Hague.

That wasn’t the only lineup change for the Knights, who were without right wing Pavel Dorofeyev for a second straight game due to an undisclosed ailment. Dorofeyev, who led the Knights with 35 goals in the regular season, is skating, but Cassidy had no further updates Tuesday morning.

Right wing Victor Olofsson stayed in the lineup in place of Dorofeyev and skated with center Brett Howden and left wing Tanner Pearson on the fourth line. Right wing Keegan Kolesar earned a promotion to the second line with center Tomas Hertl and left wing Brandon Saad, and had a few excellent shifts in the first period.

The new lines weren’t permanent, however. Cassidy mixed things up midgame to try to spark his group. That included taking William Karlsson off his line with Stone and center Jack Eichel and putting him with Howden and right wing Reilly Smith.

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