Kings best Canucks in shoot-out

The Los Angeles Kings started and finished the game strongly as they beat Vancouver 3-2 in a shootout at Rogers Arena on Tuesday night to hand the Canucks a second home defeat in a row.
Dustin Penner opened the scoring for the Kings 9:06 in, before Justin Williams and Mike Richards sealed the win in the shootout. Jonathan Quick saved 32 shots through overtime and two of three in the shootout. Williams grabbed the other goal for the Kings in normal time.

Alex Burrows scored for the Canucks, while Daniel Sedin and David Booth scored the regulation goals. Vancouver lost for the third time in five games.

L.A. were highly fancied in the pre-game NHL betting tips and they duly dominated the early exchanges. They were rewarded for their dominance when Penner tipped Drew Doughty’s point blast past Roberto Luongo to make it 1-0.

Penner’s goal sparked Vancouver into life and they equalised early in the second period when Sedin scored in a power play. Sedin, Vancouver’s top scorer, beat Quick with a snap shot to score his 20th goal of the season.

Sedin almost gave the Canucks the lead just three minutes later but was denied by Quick. Williams then scored a power-play goal to give the Kings a 2-1 lead heading into the third period. He scooped Willie Mitchell’s rebounded point shot over the grounded Luongo to put the Kings back in the ascendancy.

Booth, who missed 18 games with a knee injury, tied the game again for the Canucks five minutes into the third period when he collected Jannik Hansen’s pass and snapped it past Quick.

Both sides pushed for a winner, with punters who bet on hockey struggling to decide who to back. But it was the Kings who prevailed in the shootout to get their season back on track after a 2-1 overtime defeat to the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday.