In a game heard live on KHTS, the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Vancouver Canucks by a final score of 5-1. Listen to all the action on AM 1220 KHTS.

Final Score:

Kings: 5

Canucks: 1

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Post Game From Kings.NHL.com:

The loss of another defenseman couldn’t stop the Los Angeles Kings. Not when they have Drew Doughty, Alec Martinez and waves of puck-hounding forwards.

Martinez had a career-high three assists and the Kings got goals from Marian Gaborik, Jake Muzzin, Anze Kopitar, Tyler Toffoli and Jeff Carter in a 5-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Staples Center on Saturday.

Los Angeles had five available defensemen because Robyn Regehr has an unspecified injury in addition to the suspension of Slava Voynov. But the Kings held the Canucks to 10 shots through the first 36 minutes in a terrific puck-possession performance that rendered Vancouver inert.

Martinez played a season-high 25:30. Doughty played 29:43, including 3:59 shorthanded. Gaborik and Muzzin got their first goals this season.

The Canucks had scored eight goals in their previous two games and won six of seven but hit a resounding thud in what was a successful trip that concludes Sunday at the Anaheim Ducks. Goalie Ryan Miller, who was 5-1-1 lifetime against the Kings, was pulled for Eddie Lack to start the third period.

Los Angeles killed an early 5-on-3 disadvantage and basically took over the rest of the game.

Kopitar made it 3-0 with a sniper wrist shot that went past Miller’s shoulder at 18:11 of the first period. Vancouver got caught in the neutral zone and defenseman Christopher Tanev was impeded by Kings forward Justin Williams when Gaborik nudged the puck to an unguarded Kopitar on the left side.

Muzzin scored on a 50-foot wrist shot through heavy traffic at 14:42 of the first for his first goal this season, after a rush by the Tanner Pearson-Carter-Toffoli line. Gaborik opened the scoring when he stuffed in a rebound at 9:43 of the first. Kopitar chipped the puck out from the half-wall to start the play.

Vancouver, which had allowed more than two goals once in its previous seven games, allowed four in the opening 30 minutes when Toffoli backhanded in his own rebound after a shot by Martinez at 10:00 of the second period.

Miller nearly got the paddle of his stick on the shot but couldn’t do much in the first two periods, when the Kings enjoyed a lopsided territorial advantage and a 22-13 shot advantage.

Carter made it 5-0 early in the third period. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick’s shutout bid ended when Chris Higgins banged home Linden Vey’s centering pass at 12:07.