CANUCKS VS KINGS PREVIEW
TV: Sportsnet Pacific
Radio: Sportsnet 650
MATCH-UP INFO
Tonight marks the first of four meetings between the Canucks and the Kings this season: Nov. 18 (home), Mar. 18 (away), Apr. 2 (home), and Apr. 10 (away).
The Canucks are 116-101-32-11 all-time against the Kings including a 69-38-16-6 record at home.
Vancouver is 8-0-2 in their last 10 games vs Los Angeles (4-0-1 in their last 5).
Among active Canucks skaters, Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads the team in games played and career points vs Los Angeles with
24 points (9-15-24) in 56 career games.
Elias Pettersson has 16 points (5-11-16) in 10 career games against the Kings.
J.T. Miller and Bo Horvat have 17 career points against the Kings (5-12-17 in 16 games and 4-13-17 in 26 games
respectively).
Brock Boeser has 15 points (10-5-15) in 12 career games against the Kings.
Thatcher Demko is 2-0-0 in his career against the Kings, posting a 0.96 GAA and .971 save-percentage.
Spencer Martin is 1-1-0 in his career against Los Angeles, posting a 3.38 GAA and .907 save-percentage.
QUICK NUMBERS
Bo Horvat ranks second in the NHL in goals (14 in 17 games).
Quinn Hughes is tied for second in the NHL for assists, among defencemen (14 in 13 games).
Elias Pettersson has 13 points (4-9-13) in his last 10 games.
J.T. Miller has 11 points (6-5-11) in his last 10 games.
Brock Boeser has recorded an assist in five straight games.
LAST MEETING - APR. 28/22: VAN 3 vs LAK 2 (OT)
Brock Boeser opened up scoring for the Canucks with a power play goal at 6:52 in the third period...Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller recorded assists on the play...Alex Chiasson tied up the game at 14:31 in the third, pushing the game into overtime...Quinn Hughes collected the helper on the play...Brock Boeser scored the GWG in OT to grant the Canucks a win at their final home game of the season...Elias Pettersson notched the assist, registering a multi-point game (0-2-2)...Brock Boeser led the team in shots (5)...Juho Lammikko led the team in hits (6)...Quinn Hughes led in TOI (28:15)...J.T. Miller won 15 face-offs (65%)...Spencer Martin faced 35 shots.
LAST GAME PLAYED - NOV. 15/22: VAN 5 at BUF 4
Dakota Joshua scored his third goal of the season at 8:01 in the first...William Lockwood tallied his first point as a Canuck on the assist along with Nils Åman...Ethan Bear doubled the lead at 9:18 with his first goal as a Canuck...Bo Horvat and Conor Garland registered assists...Elias Pettersson would make it 3-1 at 0:31 seconds into the second...Oliver Ekman-Larsson was credited with the solo assist...J.T. Miller notched his 10th goal of the season with an assist from Horvat at 7:13 on the power play...Horvat would get the power play, game-winning goal at 8:25 in the second...Brock Boeser and Pettersson got assists on the play...Horvat led the team in
shots (8), tying the season high, and won 17/26 faceoffs (65%)...Luke Schenn led in hits (3)...Spencer Martin collected his first win against the Sabres and stopped 28 shots.
LAST 5 vs LOS ANGELES
Apr. 28/22: VAN 3 vs LAK 2 (OT)
Dec. 30/21: VAN 1 at LAK 2 (SO)
Dec. 6/21: VAN 4 vs LAK 0
Dec. 28/19: VAN 3 vs LAK 2
Oct. 30/19: VAN 5 at LAK 3
HUGHES' HELPING HANDS
Picking up a power play assist to extend his personal assist streak to 10 games (0-13-13) on Nov. 13 at BOS, Quinn Hughes passed Jiri Bubla (1983.84) for the second-longest assist streak by a defenceman in Canucks history. He is only one of two Canuck defencemen to ever hit a double-digit streak, being one game short of tying Dennis Kearns for the franchise record (11 games in 1976.77).
• Hughes' next assist will also mark the 161st of his career and will break a tie with Harold Snepsts for 10th-most assists by a defenceman in team history.
HARD HITTING SCHENN
Matching his personal career-high and the Canucks franchise-high (set by himself) with 12 hits on Nov. 12 at TOR, Luke Schenn became the first player in NHL history to record at least three games with 12+ hits in his career. With 2,916 career hits, Schenn is only 30 hits away from tying Brooks Orpik (2,946) for most in League-history by a defencemen. Schenn has collected the most hits in the NHL this season (76 in 17 GP).
*The NHL began tracking hits in 2005.06.
BO'S BLAZING START
Scoring his team-leading 14th goal on Nov. 15 at BUF, Bo Horvat tied Darcy Rota (1983.84) and Greg Adams (1987.88) for fourth- most goals through the first 17 games of a season in Canucks history, trailing only Alexander Mogilny (15, 1995.96), Pavel Bure (17, 1992.93) and Tony Tanti (17, 1983.84).
- Scoring his sixth power play goal of the season, Horvat surpassed Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin for 9th most power play goals in franchise history (62).
- Tallying eight goals in five games (Oct. 28-Nov. 8), Horvat tied Mikael Samuelsson (2009.10) and Alexandre Burrows (2009.10) as the only Canucks to do so in the last 26 years.
- Horvat is also the first player in franchise history to have five multi-goal games in the first 13 games.
- With 28 goals in 35 games since March 9, 2022, Horvat has the highest goals per game (0.80) in the League during that
- stretch (minimum 5 GP).
HORVAT HITS 200
Picking up an assist on J.T. Miller's first period goal on Nov. 5 vs NSH, Bo Horvat recorded his 200th career assist, become the 22nd
Canuck in team history to hit that mark.
HATS OFF TO KUZ
Recording a hat-trick with three goals, including the game-winner, on Nov. 3 vs ANA, Andrei Kuzmenko became just the fourth Russian-born skater in Canucks history to record a hat-trick, joining Pavel Bure (9x), Alexander Mogilny (4x), and Igor Larionov (2x). The winger became the fourth Canucks player in the past 20 years to record three goals in a single frame joining Horvat (Oct. 22/19), Mikael Samuelsson (Mar. 9/10) and Markus Naslund (Oct. 21/02).
FIVE-POINT PETEY
Posting one goal and four assists on Nov. 3 vs ANA, Elias Pettersson recorded his third career five-point game, joining Alexander Mogilny as the only other player in Canucks history to do so. He currently leads the team in assists (10) and points (15) in 11 games so far this season.