{"id":521900,"date":"2026-03-25T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/521900\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:58:53","slug":"vancouver-brings-losing-streak-into-matchup-with-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/521900\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver brings losing streak into matchup with Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Kings<\/a> (28-25-18, in the Pacific Division) vs. Vancouver Canucks<\/a> (21-41-8, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Vancouver, British Columbia; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Vancouver Canucks aim to break a three-game losing streak when they play the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n

Vancouver is 21-41-8 overall with a 5-10-2 record against the Pacific Division. The Canucks have a -83 scoring differential, with 177 total goals scored and 260 allowed.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 6-5-9 record in Pacific Division games and a 28-25-18 record overall. The Kings have a 22-4-9 record when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Kings won the previous meeting 2-1 in overtime.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Filip Hronek<\/a> has eight goals and 32 assists for the Canucks. Brock Boeser<\/a> has five goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Quinton Byfield<\/a> has 17 goals and 23 assists for the Kings. Anze Kopitar<\/a> has five goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Canucks: 3-6-1, averaging 2.8 goals, five assists, 3.1 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Kings: 3-3-4, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.8 assists, 2.6 penalties and 5.7 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Canucks: Thatcher Demko: out for season (hip), Derek Forbort: out (undisclosed), Filip Chytil: out (face).<\/p>\n

Kings: Kevin Fiala: out for season (leg), Andrei Kuzmenko<\/a>: out (meniscus).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings (28-25-18, in the Pacific Division) vs. Vancouver Canucks (21-41-8, in the Pacific Division) Vancouver, British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[870,367,305,56683,4238,5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,285,4,1295,27],"class_list":["post-521900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-los-angeles-kings","tag-andrei-kuzmenko","tag-anze-kopitar","tag-brock-boeser","tag-event_preview","tag-filip-hronek","tag-hockey","tag-kings","tag-la","tag-la-kings","tag-lakings","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleskings","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-quinton-byfield","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116289704267712731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}