Canucks at Kings: Tonight, We Fight!

Well, this was A Game, I guess. We knew that there would be some bad blood between the two clubs, what with Dustin Brown doing his patriotic duty and ousting Luongo, and the Canucks having lost the 3 meetups prior. Little did we know that this game would be just ridiculous. Everyone got into it, right off the top.

How cute, are you guys trying to be physical and skilled team? That’s adorable.

It all started with an innocuous hooking call against Kassian on Brown, but it devolved from there. Tom Sestito went out there to do exactly what we all expect him to do. He tried to start a scrap against Jordan Nolan, but Nolan wasn’t having any of it. If NOLAN is like, “no, I don’t want to, why are you doing this,” then you’re doing something wrong bud. He got penalties on penalties and was herded back to the locker room, but not without leaving his mark on the game.

I mean, I guess it’s impressive that he racked up all those minutes in a single second?

With this, the Kings go on a 7-minute power play. To the untrained Kings viewer, this may seem like a great thing. “7 whole minutes with a man advantage, wow!” you may think, erroneously. But the rest of us know better. We know that being on the power play is actually a huge disadvantage. Getting a 5-on-3, which the Kings nabbed at the end of the initial power play, is just an opportunity to have everyone watch and laugh at the Kings’ efforts.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Kings power play.

Seven power plays for the Kings, and a big, fat ZERO goals scored on any of them. Jeff Carter had a great opportunity at the beginning of the game, but his real contribution was taking a penalty while the Kings were on the power play, thus saving us all from having to watch it fail.

40 minutes of garbage.

Despite this penalty party, one incident that didn’t get picked up was this slew foot on Drew Doughty.

Have fun gabbing with the Department of Player Safety for that one, jerk.
(Edit: no supplemental discipline. Ugh.)

Vancouver had taken a penalty less than 10 seconds into the first 2 periods, so I waited with baited breath at the beginning of the third to see if they’d get the hat trick. That didn’t end up happening, but something even better occured. A quick passing 3 on 1 progressed down towards Lack, and Dustin Brown, enrager of Canucks, was able to backhand one in off of Kopitar’s rebound.

Captain Toothless, doing it all.

There was an entire period left for Vancouver to tie it up or for the Kings to pull ahead, but everyone seemed to have used up all of their energy stupidly tussling in the last two periods. The Kings were able to stop the Canucks with Jonathan Quick making some great saves to keep them in it and garnering a much deserved shutout.

Once again, the Kings bested the Canucks for the 4th time this season and the 100th time in franchise history. Despite there only really being one period of hockey, the Kings were better at getting goals, drawing penalties (for better or worse) and successfully diving their asses off.

Well played Mr. Quick, well played.

@DrunkHitch you mad bro?

— Jonathan Quick (@JonathanQuick32) January 14, 2014

Oh wait, even better played.