{"id":605115,"date":"2026-04-15T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605115\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:32:15","slug":"kings-lose-to-canucks-in-ot-still-gain-on-3rd-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605115\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings lose to Canucks in OT, still gain on 3rd in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake DeBrusk<\/a> won it with his second goal of the game at 2:58 of overtime for Vancouver. He choked up on his stick to convert a backdoor pass at the right post from center Elias Pettersson<\/a>, who had two assists.<\/p>\n

Quinton Byfield and Alex Laferriere each had a goal and an assist for the Kings (35-26-20), who had won five in a row but are 6-0-2 in the month of April. Adrian Kempe also scored, and Darcy Kuemper made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles moved into a tie in points (90) for third in the Pacific with the Anaheim Ducks, who lost 3-2 at the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday. The Ducks own the regulation wins tiebreaker with the Kings (25-22).<\/p>\n

Kevin Lankinen made 31 saves for the last-place Canucks (25-48-8), who have won three in a row for the third time all season, and the first since winning four in a row from Dec. 14-20.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Elias Pettersson put the Canucks ahead 1-0 at 9:21 of the first period with a shot from the top of the left circle that went under the blocker of a screened Kuemper.<\/p>\n

Byfield tied it 1-1 at 17:15. He got behind Canucks forward Brock Boeser on a 2-on-2 rush and redirected a cross-ice pass from Laferriere past the extended right pad of Lankinen.<\/p>\n

Byfield has scored in five straight road games (seven goals).<\/p>\n

DeBrusk scored a power-play goal from the edge of the crease 52 seconds into the second period to put Vancouver back in front 2-1.<\/p>\n

Kempe responded just 12 seconds later to tie it 2-2. The Kings cycled the puck behind the net up to Anze Kopitar at the left face-off dot, from where he spotted Kempe alone at the right post for a backdoor tap-in.<\/p>\n

Laferriere put Los Angeles ahead 3-2 at 2:17. His initial redirection of Drew Doughty’s point shot was stopped by Lankinen, but Laferriere collected his own rebound and slid a backhand past the right pad of the goaltender.<\/p>\n

Zeev Buium tied it 3-3 at 9:20 of the second on a pretty give-and-go play. He sent a feed down low to Nils Hoglander from the top of the right circle, skated down into the low slot, and buried the return pass into an open net.<\/p>\n

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