LOS ANGELES AND EL SEGUNDO, CA — With Game 4 of their Western Conference Quarterfinal playoff series against the Vancouver Canucks coming up tonight (April 21, 7:00 PM PDT at Staples Center), much of the focus has been on the Canucks’ inept penalty-killing, which has allowed seven power play goals on just twelve chances after three games.
The result: the Canucks are looking up at a 2-1 series deficit with a huge challenge ahead of them...fixing their penalty-killing woes.
But the problem for the Canucks is not just their penalty-killing. More to the point, their problem is two-fold and they go by the names Drew Doughty and Jack Johnson, the young studs on the Kings’ blue line.
Indeed, the twenty-year-old Doughty and the 23-year-old Johnson are still very young, relatively ...
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Kings: Doughty, Johnson Prove To Be Vancouver Canucks’ Biggest Problems
Posted: 21st April 2010 by Gann Matsuda in NHLComments Off on Kings: Doughty, Johnson Prove To Be Vancouver Canucks’ Biggest Problems