In Vancouver, the Canucks hit for three goals in the second period on Friday night in a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings.
Vancouver’s Brock Boeser potted his first two goals of the season in the win.
“A little weight off my shoulders,” Boeser said. “Anytime you have a goose egg and you’re supposed to score and help the team win hockey games and we’re not winning hockey games, it weighs on you. That’s what I get paid to do, so I’ve got to make sure I continue to find ways to put the puck in the back of the net.”
Thatcher Demko made 37 saves in the Vancouver win.
The Canucks improved to 6-9-3.
“I think for the most part, it was our best game of the year,” Vancouver coach Bruce Boudreau said. “Our first period was excellent. Obviously they had pushes and they’re a good team, so when you’re behind you do make pushes, but I thought we held on really well and I thought our goalie was really good.”
Blake Lizotte was the lone striker for the Kings.
“For as much as you’d like to always keep your team together and not separate it, I thought there were some individuals that let us down tonight rather than the group as a whole,” Los Angeles coach Todd McLellan said. “Sometimes you have to play the game a certain way and it might not be the way you like it. It might be ugly, it might be grinding, it might not be cute, but that’s the way you have to play it, and we had some that couldn’t accept that or didn’t want to, and that cost us.”
LA dropped to 11–1.
Elias Pettersson also hit for a double for the Canucks, both came in the middle frame. His first staked the Canucks to a 1-0 ;lead.
“We talked lately about if we score or they score, we need to respond no matter what, not sit back,” Pettersson said.
Boeser pushed the lead to 2-0.
Boeser scored his second of the night in the third period on a 4-on-2 rush with the Kings caught in the offensive zone.
“It’s just decision making, really,” Los Angeles captain Anze Kopitar said. “There’s a couple plays where we didn’t take care of the puck and it turned out to be in the net. Got to correct that.”
Jonathan Quick made 21 saves in the Kings loss.
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