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[GDT] LAK - 1/13/14 - 7:30PM


Strombone1

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Keys to the game:

Kings must be licking their chops, thinking Canucks coming to town is just what the doctor ordered for them -- a slump buster -- as LA is having their own problems. The game a week ago turned out to be exactly that, mostly by Canucks' own undoing. Now Kings are confident they have Canucks' number and can beat us anytime anywhere. The only way Canucks give themselves the best chance to win is returning the whatever physical favor the Kings deliver with our own. Win or lose, that's the only way to send them a message that we won't be as easy to play against as they may think.

1. Stay away from the boards when moving the puck as much as possible, in our own and neutral zone.

Kings rarely lose puck battles along the boards and also very good at cutting off passes along the wall. You need to have a defenceman or a forward ready, away from the board, to take the pass and either skate out with it or find an open teammate. That's how Chicago beat LA in the last playoffs. Yeah I know darn too well -- we are not Chicago and we don't have puck moving defencemen they have. But still, 8 out of 10 times I see Nucks try to squeak the puck along the boards in their own zone where Kings are already waiting to cut it off, and that's so frustrating to watch. And we all know how hard it is to get Kings off of the puck, once they have it in the o-zone.

2. If they slap you, don't turn the other cheek. Slap them back, make them turn the other cheek and slap again.

Self Explanatory.

3. Crash the crease and if they hit you, be sure to fall on Jonathan Quick.

Self Explanatory also.

GO CANUCKS GO!

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