{"id":549417,"date":"2026-04-10T09:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549417\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:04:28","slug":"kings-defeat-canucks-move-back-into-2nd-wild-card-in-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549417\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings defeat Canucks, move back into 2nd wild card in West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pettersson tied it 1-1 at 14:17 when his slap shot from above the left circle deflected in off Brian Dumoulin<\/a>\u2019s skate as the defenseman battled with Marco Rossi<\/a>\u00a0in the crease.<\/p>\n

Armia put Los Angeles back up 2-1 at 15:48. Jared Wright<\/a> forced a turnover in the neutral zone that was collected by Scott Laughton<\/a>, who then dropped the puck back to Armia for a wrist shot from the high slot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think (Tolopilo) would have wanted that one back, I think,\u201d Foote said. \u201cIt was 1-1, and they get the next one and we got frustrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kempe extended the lead to 3-1 at 19:31 of the second period. He positioned himself on the inside hash marks of the right circle and redirected Edmundson\u2019s slap shot from the right point.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was big,\u201d Kempe said. \u201cObviously, going into the third with a two-goal lead instead of one is a bit of a difference, but I think, yeah, the momentum changes a lot quickly there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kempe has 12 points (eight goals, four assists) in his past seven games, including eight points (six goals, two assists) in his past four.<\/p>\n

Panarin has seven points (one goal, six assists) during the Kings\u2019 five-game point streak and 25 points (eight goals, 17 assists) in 22 games since being acquired from the New York Rangers on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, they\u2019re big boy players, and the League is run by the big boys,\u201d Smith said. \u201cYou look at the best teams in the League, they all have stars and they all have guys that make plays at big times, and right now that line is doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore made it 4-1 at 9:15 of the third period. Alex Laferriere<\/a>\u2019s shot from the blue line was first redirected by Canucks defenseman Elias Pettersson<\/a> in an effort to break up the play before Moore got a touch on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout the season you\u2019ll see teams kind of lower their standard going into games like this,\u201d Edmundson said. \u201cVancouver, they beat Colorado not long ago (8-6 on April 1), and they\u2019ve been playing good hockey. They got young guys that are trying to make an impression, and you know, it\u2019s a huge game for us, so we have to approach every game like a playoff game right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOTES: Kempe has 71 points (34 goals, 37 assists) in 77 games this season. He is the eighth player in Kings history to have at least 70 points in three straight seasons. … Edmundson reached 20 assists for the first time in his 11 NHL seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pettersson tied it 1-1 at 14:17 when his slap shot from above the left circle deflected in off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-549417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116379614053096094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549417","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=549417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}