Tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET, the Los Angeles Kings (15-6-3, 33 points) and the Vancouver Canucks (12-9-4, 28 points) faceoff live from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver in the second of three meetings this season. The game can be live streamed here. L.A. fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action on KTLK 1150 while Vancouver fans can do the same on TEAM 1040.
Los Angeles is winless in its last two games, but has gotten at least one point in its last nine games while Vancouver enters play with just one win in its last seven games. The last time these two teams went head-to-head, the Kings beat the Canucks 5-1 in Los Angeles on Nov. 9.
The Kings lost their most recent game to the Colorado Avalanche by a 1-0 margin in overtime and will be looking to avoid a third straight defeat.
"We had a pretty good first period," Kings forward Anze Kopitar said per NHL.com. "In the second period, we got outplayed. The third period was back and forth. We were good on the penalty kill, and have to create a bit more on the power play. In overtime, it was just a tough bounce."
Kopitar leads the team with 22 points off of six goals and 16 assists while Justin Williams has 18 points off of nine tallies and nine helpers and Mike Richards also has 18 points off of five goals and 13 assists.
The Canucks have been led by the Sedin twins as Henrik has a team-high 24 points while finding the back of the net six times and adding 18 assists while Daniel has lit the lamp eight times and added 13 assists for 21 points. Ryan Kesler has 17 points from finding the twine seven times and adding 10 helpers.
The Canucks lost to the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 on Saturday at home and will look to avenge that loss at the Kings' expense.
"We beat ourselves, and teams like Chicago will capitalize," Canucks coach John Tortorella said per NHL.com. "We kill a penalty, we get our guy on the ice and we throw the puck away [and it] ends up in our net. We run how we forecheck off a faceoff every time, [but] we decide to go off the map and we give up an odd-man rush [and] it's in our net. We played a good hockey game, but we beat ourselves in those few seconds."
In net, Roberto Luongo has started 21 of the Canucks 26 games and is 10-7-4 with a 2.30 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage while with Jonathan Quick (groin) sidelined for the Kings, Ben Scrivens has filled in and is 5-1-3 with a 1.37 GAA and a .946 save percentage.
Both teams try to put tough losses behind them when the Kings and Canucks faceoff at Rogers Arena in Vancouver tonight.
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