Game Day #79: Kings @ Canucks Preview

Los Angeles Kings v Vancouver Canucks (Rogers Arena)

Time: 7:00 PM

TV: CBC, Prime

Enemy reading: Canucks Army

Canucks (projected) lineup:

Daniel-Kesler-Burrows
Higgins-Henrik-Jensen
Kassian-Richardson-Booth
Sestito-Matthias-Hansen

Hamhuis-Garrison
Edler-Bieksa
Stanton-Corrado

Lack

Injured: Mike Santorelli, Andrew Alberts, Chris Tanev; Scratched: Jordan Schroeder, Zac Dalpe, Michael Zalewski, Yannick Weber

Kings (projected) lineup:

Gaborik-Kopitar-Williams
Pearson-Carter-Toffoli
Nolan-Stoll-Brown
Clifford-Richards-Lewis

Muzzin-Doughty
Campbell?-Voynov
Mitchell-Martinez

Quick

Injured: Drew Doughty, Dwight King; Scratched: Matt Greene, Robyn Regehr

Game Notes:

• Haha, whatever.
• Prediction: Kings win, Canucks lose, oceans rise, civilisations fall, time moves ever onwards./

• Okay, fine, I guess I should say something about Andrew Campbell: this is Andrew Campbell's first NHL game. He is probably pretty excited about it. Have fun out there, Andrew Campbell!
• Robyn Regehr is technically a scratch but I think Sutter basically said that he's one of a couple guys who are a bit banged up and could use some rest tonight. Sucks to be Matt Greene, though.
  
• Drew Doughty's injury is allegedly not serious - apparently he probably could play tonight if the Kings were in a real bind, but this game is absolutely meaningless and it's probably best to keep him away away from the Zack "I was charged with assault" Kassian/Tom "I am the worst human in the world" Sestito duo.
• Linden Vey has been technically loaned to the ECHL due to a salary cap situation, but he's with the team in Vancouver, and will be back in the lineup as soon as the money works out.
• Henrik Sedin will come back from his knee injury to play tonight for no reason that I can understand. Although I guess their draft position doesn't matter because they're just going to pick another random over-ager who'll never have an NHL career so yolo? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• ~Fun With Numbers~ from Extra Skater. The Canucks are better than they seem, but they've been wracked with injuries, Tortorella is a moron, and seriously lol who cares anymore.
  
• Kings-Canucks is the Hockey Night in Canada late game and I briefly got excited because I thought maybe somebody interesting (ie, a King) would be in After Hours, but instead the guest is David Booth. LITERALLY NOBODY IN THE WORLD IS INTERESTED IN VIEWING DAVID BOOTH'S FACE OR HEARING DAVID BOOTH'S WORDS.
• Whatever.

how much do you not care about this game