***Vancouver Canucks vs. LA Kings GDT 3/18/23 EARLY START 7:00pm on BSW***

[Nyssa42]

Game Day Thread
Game #70/82 -- 03/18/23

**EARLY START - 7:00pm**




Vancouver Canucks vs. Los Angeles Kings

at | Los Angeles, CA

Pride Night
Giveaway: Rainbow Tube Socks to first 5000 fans

Pre-Game Fan Fest Starting at 4:30



Previous Meeting

11/18/22 — Kings 1, Canucks 4

**Game Time >>7:00pm<<**

TV:BSW

Radio: LA Kings iHeartRadio app

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Drew Doughty (video), Pheonix Copley, & Todd McLellan 3/16 Post Game Quotes

Watch Drew Doughty’s Post Game Interview Here

Pheonix Copley on what he feels is most responsible for 7-0-1 over the last eight games
I think we’ve been playing good defense, good team defense. We’re kind of shutting teams down, keeping them to the outside and frustrating them. I think that’s kind of the basis of how we win, frustrating teams, and then we get our looks and we’ve got guys that can score. I think that’s been a big part, team defense.
Copley on the team keeping shots to the outside makes his job easier in net
I think it kind of simplifies it for us. We know we have to make the first save and take care of the rebounds. Those guys are doing a good job of cleaning stuff up and keeping things to the outside. It simplifies our job for sure.
Copley on the comfort level of getting four goals of support in the second period
I’ll never complain about scoring like that. We had a lot of good looks in the first, it just wasn’t going in and then in the second, they started going in. I thought it was a pretty complete game for us and in the second, we got rewarded.

Todd McLellan on the team’s defensive play over the course of the eight-game point streak
Well, I go back to our numbers, I don’t even know what they are anymore, 2-2-2-2-1-2-1, something like that. It’s hard to keep teams to two goals against or less consistently and we’ve been able to do it for a while. It means you’re getting great goaltending, the penalty kill is probably doing its thing and four lines and three pairs of defensemen are committed to doing things right. I look at the goal we gave up tonight, we did everything we wanted to do or needed to do and it went off the ref’s foot, into the slot and they score. Those are going to get built into games or series and you have to be able to overcome them but just a complete commitment to doing what we do.
McLellan on concluding the season slate versus the Eastern Conference and the fight to the finish
As far as the east goes, we’re done and the best part about it is we don’t have to travel out that way, that can be taxing. The race to the end, for us, is just the next game, tomorrow’s practice. We don’t have to worry about Vancouver until we get there, but tomorrow’s practice will be important. Whether we skate a lot or just look at some things on the video and then clean up the legs quickly, I don’t know what we’ll do yet, but one day at a time.
McLellan on Drew Doughty’s goal, but also his defensive play to deny a 2-on-1 early
Maybe more important. I think maybe the most important two minutes were the first two minutes, where you start the game with the penalty 15 seconds in. Drew, yes he had a nice goal and he jumped into the rush today and those were really good things for him, we’re happy for him, but he consistently breaks up those moments and he was out there for a lot of that penalty kill. It was probably the most important two minutes of the game for us so that we could get our feet underneath us and keep going.
McLellan on if there was any adjusting done between the first and second periods tonight
I don’t know if there’s a big adjustment from the first to the second. Tarasov, their goaltender, made some really good saves in the first period. Had some of them got in, we probably wouldn’t be answering this question. We didn’t have to adjust a lot but we needed to focus and stay with a game plan. It paid off in the second and then we checked our way to a win in the third.
McLellan on Trevor Moore looking more like himself on his second time returning from injury
Yeah, I think he looks more like he did earlier in the year and last year through this phase than he did the first one. The goal he scored the other night, I’m sure was a relief we spoke on that already, but his energy with that line matches now. It didn’t match the first time back but it doesn’t match now.

Subject To Change





Kings Injuries

Sean Durzi (D2D)
Kevin Fiala
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Canucks Probable Lineup
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Former Kings

Tanner Pearson (IR)


Christian Wolanin

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Tonight’s Poll Question:

Just one question tonight - What will be the FINAL SCORE of the game?
(doesn’t matter which team has which, just the numbers)
You can take 3 guesses

Previous Game’s Winners

Congratulations to the following posters who correctly guessed the Kings goalie would make 29 saves and/or that Gavrikov would be credited with 0 points:

Both (2 points):
srm1105
Rusty
JETS GARAGE
beedee
VegasHockey
DRice
Kurisu
forum gold

29 saves (1 point):
kingsmen93
Dr. Tran
SirJW
Cross Traffic
randdog
pray4mojo

0 points Gavrikov (1 point):
Rogie-Vachon
CIrvine
JayWells24
jammer06
beady eye
DRGinLBC
Dexter
hornman
Bill Hicks
LeftyKing
Chateau Bow Wow
notbob
TooCool
KHenry14
kingrussell

Poll Win Totals

King Of The Mountain
with 55 points:

VegasHockey

51 Points

srm1105

50 Points

49 Points

Kurisu
LeftyKing
Rusty

48 Points

sonnyboy11

47 Points


46 Points

AngelEyes
hornman

45 Points

DRice

44 Points

Bill Hicks

43 Points

John a90

42 Points

pray4mojo
randdog

41 Points

forum gold

40 Points

beady eye
DRGinLBC

39 Points

Chateau Bow Wow
Helvetica

38 Points

CIrvine
jammer 06
SirJW
TooCool

37 Points

Liz4LA

36 Points


35 Points


34 Points


33 Points


32 Points

Nyssa42

31 Points


30 Points

hihocarp

29 Points

dannybuoy1
JETS GARAGE
notbob
Rogie-Vachon

28 Points

empire

27 Points


26 Points

Clif

25 Points

KHenry14

24 Points

JayWells24

23 Points

kingsmen93
Sevenhole

22 Points


21 Points

kingrussell

20 Points


19 Points

Dr. Tran
waynet

18 Points

RoS
Shackleford

17 Points

Byron

16 Points

Cross Traffic

15 Points


14 Points


13 Points


12 Points


11 Points

Busted Chops

10 Points

kopinator

9 Points

Dirtweazle

8 Points

beedee

7 Points


6 Points


5 Points

Dexter

4 Points


3 Points

HTK
salami
STONE

2 Points

05/29/93
jneol67
KingzLA
PuckMaster
SaltyPuck

1 Point

cokingsfan
HiFi
Ice24
Joe Laviguer
mugs
puckoff
RagBone
Rinkrat
twistedwrister

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[Kurisu]

3-2, 4-2, 4-1

[kingsmen93]

6-1, 3-1, 4-2

Thank you Nyssa! Go Kings Go!!!

[Dr. Tran]

4-1, 4-2, 5-2.

Go Kings Go!

[Rogie-Vachon]

3-2
5-3
4-0

[SirJW]

3-2

6-4

1-0

[Chateau Bow Wow]

3-2
4-1
4-2

[Byron]

4-1
5-2
3-1

[beady eye]

4-3
3-2
6-3

[forum gold]

4-1, 4-2, 3-2