Kempe has goal, 2 assists as Kings beat depleted Oilers 5-0

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Adrian Kempe had a goal and two assists and Warren Foegele and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and an assist as the Los Angeles Kings beat the depleted Edmonton Oilers 5-0 on Monday night.

Quinton Byfield and Vladislav Gavrikov also scored for the Kings, who have won seven of their last eight and officially clinched home-ice against the Oilers in the first round of the playoffs.

Darcy Kuemper had 16 saves before being replaced by David Rittich before the midway mark of the third period, seemingly for precautionary reasons. Rittich finished with five saves.

Calvin Pickard had 31 saves for Edmonton, which snapped a three-game win streak. The Oilers were without several key players, including Connor McDavid (rest), Leon Draisaitl (undisclosed), Mattias Ekholm (undisclosed), Trent Frederic (ankle), Zach Hyman (undisclosed), Evander Kane (hip, knee), Troy Stetcher (undisclosed) and Jake Walman (undisclosed). All but Ekholm are expected to either start the playoffs or be available within the first couple of postseason games.

Kings: Byfield now has goals in four consecutive games and seven points in that span. He is one point short of tying his career high of 55 points set during the 2023-2024 season. Since Feb. 1, he leads the team with 31 points in 31 games.

Oilers: Forward Connor Brown skated in his 600th career game but was held off the scoresheet, ending a three-game goal-scoring streak.

Los Angeles made it 4-0 with a power-play goal eight minutes into the middle period as Fiala blasted his career high and team-leading 35th goal of the season off of Pickard’s glove and in. He now has seven goals in his last six games.

Edmonton has defeated Los Angeles in the opening round in each of the past three seasons. The Oilers needed seven games to knock out the Kings in 2022, eliminated them in six games in 2023 and were victorious in five games in 2024. The Oilers had home-ice advantage in all three of those matchups.

Kings play at Seattle on Tuesday in road finale, and Oilers visit San Jose on Wednesday to finish season.

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Los Angeles Kings' Jordan Spence (21), Vladislav Gavrikov (84) and Phillip Danault (24) celebrate after a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during first-period NHL hockey game action in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings' Warren Foegele (37) celebrates with teammates after a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during first-period NHL hockey game action in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings' Kevin Fiala (22) is pursued by Edmonton Oilers' Vasily Podkolzin (92) during first-period NHL hockey game action in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings' Brandt Clarke, bottom, and Edmonton Oilers' Vasily Podkolzin, left, fight during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings' Vladislav Gavrikov (84) checks Edmonton Oilers' Kasperi Kapanen (42) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings celebrate a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings' Kevin Fiala (22) is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Calvin Pickard (30) during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings celebrate a goal as Edmonton Oilers goalie Calvin Pickard (30) reacts during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings' Brandt Clarke (92) and goalie Darcy Kuemper (35) celebrate a win over the Edmonton Oilers in an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Los Angeles Kings' Adrian Kempe (9) celebrates a goal with teammates against the Edmonton Oilers during first period NHL action in Edmonton, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein 's assistants kept a list of female “friends of Harvey” to invite to events and sometimes considered them a special category for guest lists, an ex-aide testified Thursday at the former movie mogul's sex crimes retrial.

“A ‘friend of Harvey’ was a woman that he’d meet at events or parties or festivals or — somewhere,” said Elizabeth Perz. She worked for his production company from 2011 to 2015, initially as one of his executive assistants.

The then-married Weinstein asked his assistants to invite these women to events, Perz said. It was such common practice that Weinstein's subordinates had a shorthand: “Might as well add a FOH column,” Perz advised colleagues by email as they discussed the attendee list for some 2013 awards-season events.

Jurors were shown a roster of well over a dozen names, which Perz said was kept in the office at Weinstein’s company. The names were broken down by geography, such as “LA Friends” or “Cannes/Etc/all invites."

One “LA Friends” entry was Jessica Mann, one of the three women whose allegations are at the heart of the retrial.

Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The once-powerful studio boss, who became a prime target of the #MeToo movement's campaign against sexual misconduct, maintains that he's never had sexual encounters that weren't consensual.

During the last five years, he was convicted of various sex crimes in both New York and California. But he's on trial again because an appeals court found that his New York trial was tainted by prejudicial testimony and overturned that conviction. He's charged with raping Mann in 2013 and forcing oral sex on two other women, separately, in 2006.

Mann, who was a hairstylist and aspiring actor when she met Weinstein in the early 2010s, is expected to testify in the coming days or week. The other accusers, Miriam Haley and Kaja Sokola, already have taken the stand.

At Weinstein's 2020 trial, Mann painted a complex and emotional picture of a yearslong relationship that began consensually but became “degrading” and volatile and eventually exploded into rape. Still, she kept seeing him and sending warm messages because she wanted him to believe she "wasn’t a threat,” she testified.

Weinstein's lawyers at the time argued that Mann willingly had a sexual liaison with him to serve her acting ambitions. At one point during his defense's questioning in 2020, she began sobbing so forcefully that court ended early that day.

At the retrial on Thursday, jurors saw messages that Perz had sent to Mann about some Oscars-related parties in 2013.

“Harvey would like to extend an invitation to you” and a friend, Perz wrote.

The Associated Press generally does not identify people who alleged they have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to be identified, which Sokola, Haley and Mann have done.

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan in New York, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan in New York, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)