Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks for reading, as always, and thanks for the continued patience with the blog outages. Canucks beat Kings 7-2 The Kings are scheduled to practice at 4 p.m. tomorrow in El Segundo.

Rob Scuderi’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) SCUDERI: “Whether it’s a heartbreaker in overtime or a blowout, it’s stil worth one game in the series. We didn’t do a whole lot right tonight, so I have confidence that if we play the right way, we give ourselves a chance to win every night. We have [...]

Matt Greene’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) GREENE: “You’re not going to win games giving up six, seven goals. Everybody knows that. So it’s just a matter of us shutting them down now and getting some offense of our own.” (on whether the Kings competed hard enough…) GREENE: “I think everybody had an off night [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) BROWN: “That could have been a 3-2 overtime loss or the loss we had. We’ve just got to let it go. It’s one game. We still have opportunities to win this series. Whether it’s a 3-2 loss or a 7-2 loss, it’s definitely not what we wanted but [...]

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) MURRAY: “Well, obviously it’s a loss, a bad loss. That’s pretty much where I’m going to leave it, to be quite honest. It’s a tough game, and it’s a playoff situation where you’ve got to get ready for the next one. We’ll go back home for Game 6, [...]

Not surprisingly, the blowout game ended with some emotion. The Kings’ Wayne Simmonds and Vancouver’s Shane O’Brien fought with 3:45 remaining in the third period, and afterward, O’Brien skated around the ice with his index finger in the air and encouraged the fans’ cheers. Seven seconds after the ensuing faceoff, the Kings’ Rich Clune and [...]

Vancouver took its four-goal lead back with a power-play goal at the 6:31 mark. Samuelsson fired a sharp wrist shot from the top of the right faceoff circle and beat Ersberg high and clean for his second goal of the game and his seventh goal of the series to make it 6-2. After the goal, [...]

The Canucks didn’t take things easy on Ersberg either. Kevin Bieksa entered the Kings’ zone and passed left to Pavol Demitra, whose slap shot from the top of the left circle beat Ersberg high and clean at the 4:28 mark. Fredrik Modin scored 24 seconds later, though, to make it 5-2. Matt Greene had the [...]

Shots are 21-13 Canucks after the second period. This is the first time in the series that Vancouver has led going into the third period.

The Canucks made it 4-1, and chased Quick from the game, when Mikael Samuelsson scored his sixth goal of the series with 6:29 remaining in the second period. Samuelsson’s sharp wrist shot from the top of the faceoff circle beat Quick high, and cleanly. Quick allowed four goals on 21 shots and was replaced by [...]

Vancouver took a two-goal lead 8:26 into the second period. Off a faceoff win, Mikael Samuelsson sent the puck behind the net to Daniel Sedin, who came out front with a wraparound attempt. Quick made the initial save, but Sedin picked up his own rebound and scored short-side to make it 3-1.

The Kings got a power-play goal, but it was sandwiched by two Canucks goals. The Canucks outshot the Kings 12-8 in the first period.

Just over three minutes after the Kings tied the game, the Canucks took the lead again. After a scramble in the left faceoff circle in the Kings zone, in which the Kings, and defenseman Randy Jones, were unable to control or clear the puck, Alex Edler picked up the puck and beat Quick with a [...]

The Kings continued their success with the man advantage when they tied the game with a power-play goal with 5:36 left in the first period. The Kings controlled the puck off a faceoff and Michal Handzus carried it behind the net. Handzus’ centering pass went off the stick of Canucks goalie Christian Ehrhoff and past [...]

The Canucks took the lead 8:50 into the first period. Pavol Demitra carried the puck behind the net and the puck came out in front to Kyle Wellwood. Wellwood’s shot went wide and deflected strong off the end boards. After Kings defenseman Sean O’Donnell whiffed on a clearing attempt, and before Quick could get back [...]

To catch up on today’s news and notes before the game, please check out my LAKings.com notebook… Kings notebook (April 23) Also, former Kings player Marty McSorley will be doing a live chat on the Fox Sports West website during tonight’s game. To check it out, click here. Finally, Terry Murray talked this morning about [...]

The Kings, at the start of this series, had 13 players who had never appeared in a playoff game. They’ve been through a lot, already, in this series, but challenge gets even more intense tonight, in the fifth game of a series tied 2-2. A Kings loss, in front of a hostile Vancouver crowd, would [...]

It was a big day for Drew Doughty, who received a Norris Trophy nomination, and also a big day for Kings prospect Jacob Muzzin, who won the Max Kaminsky Trophy for being the top defensman in the Ontario Hockey League. To read more about that, click here. As for Doughty, he has a chance to [...]

The big news of the day, beyond Drew Doughty’s Norris Trophy nomination, is the return to the lineup of Justin Williams. Williams will have a different look tonight, not in his usual first-line role but in a third-line role with Michal Handzus and Fredrik Modin, a line that has significant defensive responsibilities but also has [...]

At the risk of making this whole TV thing even more confusing, please note the following change… If there is a Game 7 of this series, Tuesday in Vancouver, it will be televised (in the Southern California area) on Prime Ticket, NOT Fox Sports West. The start time for that (potential) game has yet to [...]