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Game 39: Canucks At Kings Preview: Happy New Year!

By Zanstorm
CANUCKS
 KINGS

AT

Time Sat. 7:00 PM PST
TV CBC
Season Series 1-0 Canucks
 Last Meeting
3-2 Canucks Nov.10/11
The Enemy Jewels From The Crown Scoring Leaders H. Sedin: 10-35-45 Kopitar: 10-24-34

The Score Predicting Wizards List will be updated when I return home from holidays.

Whenever I see LAKINGS.COM the first word that comes to LACKINGS. That would be a fitting word for these Kings, who were completely bombing. However they just finished a short 2-game road trip in Chicago and Winnipeg, beating the Hawks 2-0 and losing 1-0 to the Jets. They are now 4-0-2 in their last 6 after going 1-6-0 in the 7 games

prior to that. They are showing signs of turning it around. They are now in 8th spot in the West, 1 point ahead of Dallas, Calgary and Colorado.

TEAM STATS

[STANDINGS] [GOALS FOR] [GOALS AGAINST] [5 ON 5] [POWER PLAY] [PK] [FACEOFFS] [HITS] [BLOCKED SHOTS] [GIVEAWAYS] [TAKEAWAYS] [AVG PENALTY MIN / GAME]

ROSTERS / LINES

-Canucks

-Kings

INJURIES

-For both teams

TRENDS

  • Canucks are 7-0 in their last 7 Saturday games.
  • Canucks are 22-5 in their last 27 vs. Pacific.
  • Canucks are 4-1 in their last 5 when their opponent allows 2 goals or less in their previous game.
  • Canucks are 8-2 in their last 10 road games.
  • Canucks are 4-1 in their last 5 games following a win.
  • Canucks are 20-6 in their last 26 in the third game of a 3-in-4 situation.
  • Canucks are 22-8 in their last 30 after scoring 5 goals or more in their previous game.
  • Canucks are 20-8 in their last 28 overall.
  • Kings are 5-1 in their last 6 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of greater than .600.
  • Kings are 4-11 in their last 15 in the fourth game of a 4-in-6 situation.
  • Kings are 2-6 in their last 8 after allowing 2 goals or less in their previous game.
  • Kings are 1-5 in their last 6 vs. Northwest.
  • Kings are 1-6 in their last 7 in the third game of a 3-in-4 situation.
  • Kings are 0-5 in their last 5 Saturday games.
  • More at Covers.com.

QUOTE

“Then Game 7 was crazy. I went with a girlfriend of mine whose a die-hard fan and she was having a hard time with it, we were both so stressed about it. Then we rolled a few cars after, so we got it out.”

Cobie Smulders is awesome.

VIDEO

Highlights from the last time these teams met in November:

The Canucks have an "excellent way of becoming a part of history:

Roberto Luongo has an excellent way of haunting Ryan Smyth's dreams and making him whimper at nights:

For the ladies (tip of the hat to SocialAssassin2 on Twitter):

Happy New Year!

GO CANUCKS GO!

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