Game 3 Preview: Los Angeles vs Vancouver

Los Angeles Kings (0-2-0) vs Vancouver Canucks (2-0-1)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 7:30 p.m. PT
Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA
Referees: #40 Steve Kozari, #12 Justin St. Pierre
Linesmen: #57 Jay Sharrers, #55 Shane Heyer
FOX Sports West, KABC 790 AM, I Heart Radio

Los Angeles Projected Starting Goaltender – Jonathan Quick
2015-16: 2 GP (2 GS) / 0-2-0 record / 4.50 GAA / .833 Sv% / 0 SHO
Career vs Vancouver: 26 (26) / 12-12-2 / 1.72 / .937 / 2
Last Game vs Vancouver: 4/6/15 / 65 MP / 37-38 + 2/3 shots / 1-2 SOL
2015-16, Home: 2 (2) / 0-2-0 / 4.50/ .833 / 0

Vancouver Projected Starting Goaltender – Ryan Miller
2015-16: 3 GP (3 GS) / 2-0-1 record / 1.60 GAA / .949 Sv% / 0 SHO
Career vs Los Angeles: 10 (9) / 5-3-1 / 2.64 / .926 / 1
Last Game vs Los Angeles: 1/1/15 / 59 MP / 37-40 shots / 2-3 L
2015-16, Away: 2 (2) / 2-0-0 / 0.96 / .966 / 0

2014-15 Los Angeles Leaders
Total Points: Five players tied with one
Goals: Nick Shore (1-0=1), Tyler Toffoli (1-0=1)
Assists: Dustin Brown (0-1=1), Drew Doughty (0-1=1), Jeff Carter (0-1=1)
Plus/Minus: Six players tied with an even rating
Penalty Minutes: Milan Lucic (10; 0-0=0)
Time On Ice: Drew Doughty (28:03; 0-1=1)
Corsi-For Percentage: Nick Shore (67.5%; 1-0=1)

2014-15 Vancouver Leaders
Total Points: Daniel Sedin (1-2=3), Jannik Hansen (1-2=3)
Goals: Eight players tied with one
Assists: Daniel Sedin (1-2=3), Jannik Hansen (1-2=3), Brandon Prust (0-2=2), Ben Hutton (0-2=2)
Plus/Minus: Jannik Hansen (+4; 1-2=3), Christopher Tanev (+4; 0-1=1)
Penalty Minutes: Brandon Prust (20; 0-2=2)
Time On Ice: Alexander Edler (23:16; 0-0=0)
Corsi-For Percentage: Sven Baertschi (57.4%; 0-1=1)

Rankings and Statistics
Goals/Game: LAK – 18 / 2.66; VAN – 29 / 2.01
Goals Against/Game: LAK – t-4 / 2.40; VAN – 28 / 3.26
Power Play: LAK – t-11 / 19.0%; VAN – 7 / 20.0%
Penalty Kill: LAK – t-16 / 80.9%; VAN – t-28 / 76.7%
Shots/Game: LAK – t-10 / 30.9; VAN – t-26 / 33.2
Shots Against/Game: LAK – 1 / 27.0; VAN – t-26 / 33.2
Faceoffs: LAK – 11 / 51.3%; VAN – 7 / 51.8%
Save Percentage: LAK – t-15 / .911; VAN – t-27 / .902
Corsi-For Percentage: LAK – 1 / 55.3%; VAN – 22 / 48.6%

Los Angeles Projected Lineup

Marian Gaborik – Anze Kopitar – Dustin Brown
Milan Lucic – Jeff Carter – Tyler Toffoli
Tanner Pearson – Nick Shore – Trevor Lewis
Kyle Clifford – Andy Andreoff – Jordan Nolan

Brayden McNabb – Drew Doughty
Jake Muzzin – Christian Ehrhoff
Alec Martinez – Matt Greene

Jonathan Quick
Jhonas Enroth

Notes and milestones: Los Angeles is 103-98-36 all-time against Vancouver, a record that includes a home mark of 63-39-18. The Kings are 7-2-1 in the last 10 games between the two clubs. These teams will also meet on December 1 and March 7 in Los Angeles, and December 28 and April 4 in Vancouver. … Los Angeles is 0-2-0 against the Western Conference and 0-2-0 against the Pacific Division. … By playing tonight, Dustin Brown will have appeared in his 805th game as a King, tying Rob Blake for fourth place overall on the franchise’s all-time games played list. … With 30 power play goals, Drew Doughty is one power play goal behind Lubomir Visnovsky (31) for the third most power play goals amongst defensemen in club history. … With 547 career wins, Darryl Sutter is two wins behind Marc Crawford (549) for 14th overall in NHL history. … Marian Gaborik has 23 goals in 46 career games against Vancouver. … Tyler Toffoli has nine points (4-5=9) in 10 career games against Vancouver. … Los Angeles has sold out a club-record 163 consecutive home games, including playoffs.

Vancouver Projected Lineup

Daniel Sedin – Henrik Sedin – Brandon Sutter
Sven Baertschi – Bo Horvat – Radim Vrbata
Alexandre Burrows – Jared McCann – Jannik Hansen
Brandon Prust – Adam Cracknell – Jake Virtanen

Dan Hamhuis – Matt Bartkowski
Alexander Edler – Christopher Tanev
Ben Hutton – Luca Sbisa

Ryan Miller
Richard Bachman

Notes and milestones: Forward Chris Higgins and goaltender Jacob Markstrom are on injured reserve with lower-body injuries. … Jannik Hansen is the only Canuck to have earned a point in every game this season. … After having defeated Anaheim in a shootout last night, Ryan Miller earned his NHL-best 53rd career shootout win. … With 15 consecutive seasons in Vancouver, Henrik and Daniel Sedin are tied with Andrei Markov of Montreal for the fifth-most consecutive seasons with one team among active NHL players, trailing only Shane Doan (20), Patrik Elias (20), Patrik Marleau (18) and Chris Phillips (18). Across other sports, the Sedin twins trail only Kobe Bryant (19), Tim Duncan (18), Dirk Nowitzki (17), Tom Brady (16) and Sebastian Janikowski (16), though all NBA streaks are through the 2014-15 season. … Jake Virtanen, Jared McCann and Ben Hutton are the first trio of Canucks rookies to crack the opening night roster since Artem Chubarov, Steve Kariya and Peter Schaefer in 1999-00. … With 99 career goals, Brandon Sutter is one goal from 100 in his career. … Vancouver Goaltending Coach Roland Melanson appeared in 119 games with Los Angeles from 1985-89, going 40-58-14. … The Canucks are playing the second night of their first back-to-back set of the season. Last year, they were 5-6-1 on the second night of back-to-back sets.