{"id":547065,"date":"2026-04-08T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:54:17","slug":"canucks-take-losing-streak-into-game-against-the-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547065\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks take losing streak into game against the Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver Canucks<\/a> (22-47-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings<\/a> (32-26-19, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Vancouver Canucks, on a three-game losing streak, play the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 7-5-9 against the Pacific Division and 32-26-19 overall. The Kings have a 24-4-10 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n

Vancouver is 22-47-8 overall and 5-14-2 against the Pacific Division. The Canucks are 7-17-3 in games they serve more penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season. The Kings won the previous matchup 4-0.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Adrian Kempe<\/a> has 32 goals and 37 assists for the Kings. Quinton Byfield<\/a> has seven goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Filip Hronek<\/a> has eight goals and 37 assists for the Canucks. Elias Pettersson<\/a> has eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 4-2-4, averaging three goals, 4.6 assists, three penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n

Canucks: 1-9-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.5 assists, 3.3 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 4.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n

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

Canucks: Thatcher Demko: out for season (hip), Kevin Lankinen<\/a>: day to day (upper-body), Derek Forbort: out (undisclosed), Evander Kane: day to day (upper-body), Filip Chytil: out (face).<\/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":"Vancouver Canucks (22-47-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (32-26-19, in the Pacific Division) Los Angeles;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[366,870,894,2318,56683,4238,5,1538,145,285,4,1295,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-547065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-andrei-kuzmenko","10":"tag-canucks","11":"tag-elias-pettersson","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-filip-hronek","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-kevin-lankinen","16":"tag-los-angeles-kings","17":"tag-national-hockey-league","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-quinton-byfield","20":"tag-vancouver","21":"tag-vancouver-canucks","22":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368249086037871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547065","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=547065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}