There are now officially some issues in Los Angeles and the Kings need to get some answers without pulling the panic switch.
On Tuesday night, Ryan Miller made 15 saves in a 3-0 shutout for his Vancouver Canucks over the Kings.
Fifteen saves?
Adam Cracknell, Alexander Edler and Derek Dorsett scored for the Canucks who are now 3-0-1 while the Kings dropped to 0-3-0.
“You know it’s going to be a battle,” Miller said. “You hope as a group you enter into that battle. You saw what the last two nights can bring. We got ourselves in there and we played the right kind of hockey, and it worked out for us.”
An offensive effort that includes 15 shots is not a battle or struggle and maybe not even a tussle.
“From the start, we believed that we were a good team,” Cracknell said. “To come down here and play Anaheim and L.A. very well; we needed everybody and that’s what we got from these last two games. It’s going to take a team effort for us to keep winning games like this.”
The Kings have been outscored 12-2 in the three losses.
“Absolutely there’s a sense of urgency,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. “We need some production out of them guys.”
There is little pressure being exerted by LA through the first games and that needs to be fixed with a division where suddenly the Kings are looking up at everyone else including the Arizona Coyotes.
“We’re just not doing the things we need to do to get the chances and the shots that are quality chances,” center Anze Kopitar said.
“Whether that’s not coming in with possession, whether that’s not coming in the way we should, I just think we’re playing too soft to get the pucks back. When we chip the puck in, about 80 percent of the time they come right back out with the puck. We’ve got to get some zone time.”
Jonathan Quick took the loss on 23 saves.
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