Hughes continues hot streak, Canucks overcome loss of Boeser to beat Kings 4-2

Quinn Hughes had a extremity and an assist, and nan Vancouver Canucks overcame nan nonaccomplishment of apical scorer Brock Boeser to hit nan Los Angeles Kings 4-2

LOS ANGELES -- Quinn Hughes had a extremity and an assist, and nan Vancouver Canucks overcame nan loss of apical scorer Brock Boeser to hit nan Los Angeles Kings 4-2 connected Thursday night.

Boeser, who scored a career-high 40 goals past play and leads Vancouver pinch six goals this year, did not return aft taking an forbidden cheque to nan caput from Kings guardant Tanner Jeannot.

Conor Garland scored connected nan consequent five-minute powerfulness play aft Jeannot received a lucifer penalty, tying nan people astatine 1. Jake DeBrusk and J.T. Miller besides scored, and Kevin Lankinen made 25 saves.

Quinton Byfield and Vladislav Gavrikov scored for Los Angeles, and Darcy Kuemper vanished pinch 19 saves.

Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson besides near nan crippled because of injury. He was trim severely aft taking Filip Hronek’s changeable to nan look precocious successful nan 2nd period.

Canucks: If Boeser is retired for immoderate magnitude of time, it would beryllium terribly damaging to Vancouver’s hopes of reaching nan playoffs successful consecutive seasons for nan first clip since 2011-12 and 2012-13.

Kings: Byfield scored for nan 2nd consecutive crippled aft failing to find nan nett done nan 13 opening contests to commencement nan season.

Hughes showed disconnected immoderate fancy footwork to create separation, allowing him to occurrence a changeable from region that gave nan Canucks a 3-1 lead early successful nan 3rd period.

Hughes has a extremity and 5 assists successful his past 3 games, and his 14 points puts him 3rd among defensemen down Colorado’s Cale Makar (25) and Winnipeg’s Josh Morrissey (16).

The Canucks look nan Oilers connected Saturday to commencement a six-game homestand, and nan Kings big nan Blue Jackets.

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