What a let-down. After playing well, and dominating large stretches of the match, the Kings were unable to finish the Canucks off, and ended up giving up points to their conference rivals, the Vancouver Canucks. The game was a low-scoring affair, and in many respects was eerily similar to the San Jose Sharks match the game before. The Canucks came into the game shorthanded, playing without star players Roberto Luongo, Pavol Demitra, Daniel Sedin and a host of other supporting players. Despite this disadvantage, the Canucks played a strong defensive game, helped by stellar play by goaltender Andrew Raycroft.
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And so they did it again. The Kings came out against a team that had beaten them only recently (4-1) in Columbus, and played one heck of a game across the board. Quick was solid, Parse put another point on his NHL resume, Frolov netted two goals, and Kopitar put some distance between him and Ovechkin for the NHL point scoring lead.
The Kings jumped out to a nice two goal lead in the first period, on goals from Handzus and Kopitar. Despite having to face a penalty shot from Rick Nash, Quick came up big and easily turned him away. [...]