LOS ANGELES - Jeff Carter scored twice in the third period to get his 300th career goal after Drew Doughty and Anze Kopitar scored less than 2 minutes apart in the second period to lift the Los Angeles Kings over the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 on Monday night.
Carter and Vincent Lecavalier scored 39 seconds apart midway through the third, and then Carter added an empty-netter for his 300th. Jonathan Quick made 21 saves to help the Kings climb within a point of Pacific Division-leading Anaheim, which lost 2-1 to Washington in a shootout.
The Kings led the Ducks by 16 points on Jan. 20 but fell out of first place with a 3-2 loss to the Ducks on Saturday.
Defenseman Dan Hamhuis scored for Vancouver and Ryan Miller stopped 24 shots.
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Crazy way for the Canucks to lose this one. They actually hung in for most of the game. Being a young team they seem to collapse after the Kings scored their second goal and even continued to compete until the third one. After that even the compete level disappeared. This is what you get from a team full of young guys facing a Stanley Cup hopeful team who is not happy about losing ground on first place in the division.
Nice to see Carter get a milestone goal! Wish it wasn’t against the Canucks!