LOS ANGELES – And on the seventh day, the Vancouver Canucks won again.
All you need to know about the first seven days of the Canucks’ National Hockey League season is this: Tuesday’s 3-0 win against the Los Angeles Kings pushed them seven points clear of the 2014 Stanley Cup winners.
The Canucks are 3-0-1, the Kings 0-3-0. That’s a pretty good head start, especially since Vancouver’s other opening-week wins were also against Pacific Division rivals, the Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames.
Playing less than 24 hours after beating the Ducks 2-1 in a shootout in Orange County, the Canucks outskated and outplayed the struggling Kings, who have been outscored 12-2 in their three losses, all at the Staples Center.