Last night’s 3-1 victory over the L.A. Kings was the most complete playoff game the Edmonton Oilers have played in the last four years. You might even say it was the most dominant in the salary cap era.

From the opening faceoff to the final whistle, the Oilers controlled the game. The Kings had no answer. Darcy Kuemper was the only reason the score was close.

Via Clear Sight Analytics, the Oilers owned this game:

High-danger chances were 14-3.

Mid-danger chances were 10-1.

Low-danger chances were 13-14.

Sportlogiq had the Oilers with 17 inner slot shots — the most of any playoff game in the last nine years.

It was a bloodbath of monumental proportions.

Edmonton outshot the Kings 19-4 in the first period. The most action Pickard got was when he’d skate to the bench and back during the TV timeouts.

The Oilers were quicker all over the ice.

They had twice as much Ozone time.

They pressured the Kings into 21 turnovers.

At no time in the game did the Kings have any sustained pressure or put the Oilers on their heels.

“I don’t remember the last time we played as good a game as that,” said Zach Hyman who for the second straight game was a punishing force delivering hit after hit. He has 22 hits in the last two games.

“We found the upper hand and tried to not let go of that. We pretty much executed for 60 minutes,” added Mattias Janmark. Janmark had two goals in the regular season — one into an empty net, and the other one deflected in off of his pants. But he has two goals in five games in this series, and once again is showing he’s better in the playoffs than the regular season. Janmark scored the game winner with assists from Viktor Arvidsson and Vasily Podkolzin.

The Oilers won Game 4 on the backs of Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard. You need your stars to win you a game, but last night they didn’t have a point until Draisaitl passed to McDavid, who moved it ahead to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for an empty net goal.

Last night was a full team effort.

Edmonton had the first 11 shots on goal to set the tone, and they never wavered.

Even when L.A. went up 1-0 with a power play goal, they gained no momentum from it. The Oilers didn’t panic or worry about the score. To that point the shots were 21-7. It was a good deflection goal by Andrei Kuzmenko off a faceoff win, but the Oilers had the next five shots on goal, with the fifth being Evander Kane tying the game.

It is rare to watch an NHL game and see one team control the game from start to finish. It’s even more rare in the playoffs, where the emotion is higher, but that’s exactly what happened last night.

Add in how the Oilers crushed L.A. in the third period and overtime of Game 4, and that makes five periods in which the Oilers have bullied the Kings. Edmonton has outshot L.A. 79-35 in those five frames and outscored them 7-1.