A ROYAL BEATING

Oilers fall to the Kings 5-0

New year, same result, same old story.

After dropping their last three games of 2017, kicked in the head 5-0 by the Winnipeg Jets on the final day of the year, the Oilers crashed 5-0 to the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night at Rogers Place; done in by the Gumby-like Jonathan Quick in net and Patrick Maroon in the dressing room after he got tossed for a shoulder to Drew Doughty’s head.

After Maroon got a match and a game banishment with five seconds left in the middle period and the Oilers only trailing 1-0, the Kings made Edmonton pay with three goals on the five-minute penalty in the third as the league’s subterranean penalty kill did the Oilers in royally.

Christmas is over, but that penalty kill is still the gift that keeps on giving.

Marian Gaborik, Dustin Brown and Adrian Kempe scored powerplay goals on Cam Talbot, who had only given up a goal to Andy Andreoff in the middle frame. Brown got the final marker even-strength with 1:32 left.

Only killing off 56.1 per cent of their penalties at home coming into the game, the Oilers have now given up 28 power-play goals in 63 tries at home, which drops that percentage to 55.6.

They’ve given up 12 more powerplay goals than any other team has given up in their own building.

The previous worst penalty kill at home in NHL history is 69.4 per cent by the 2008-09 Toronto Maple Leafs.

Doughty looked like he ran into a cement mixer as he left the ice after the Maroon shoulder, his eyes glassy and his legs rubbery after Derek Forbort stepped in and lost a fight with Maroon. But he was back after two minutes of the third — after playing almost 21 minutes in the first two frames.

Maroon, meanwhile, will probably be hearing from the NHL’s Player Safety department, because it was a hit to the head, and, well, it was Doughty.

While Oilers defenceman Andrej Sekera said the team’s mood was good before the game, that they were “mad and disappointed” after getting clobbered by the Jets, they couldn’t solve Quick or their penalty-killing woes.

Quick robbed Jesse Puljujarvi in the first period and Puljujarvi hit the post in the second. Quick had his hands full with Connor McDavid shift after shift through 40 minutes but McDavid couldn’t get a point for a third straight game.

That’s the longest he’s gone without a point in his NHL career.