Kings Beat Canucks: Dustin Brown Goals Helps L.A. To 2-0 Series Lead

Dustin Brown #23 of the Los Angeles Kings celebrates with Alec Martinez #27 after scoring against the Vancouver Canucks on April 13, 2012.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Dustin Brown tied an NHL playoff record with two short-handed goals, Jonathan Quick made 46 saves and the Los Angeles Kings beat the top-seeded Vancouver Canucks 4-2 on Friday night to take a 2-0 lead in the first-round series.

Brown had the two-goal game two nights after capping the Kings' 4-2 Game 1 victory with an empty-net goal. He entered the season with three goals in 13 career playoff games.

Brown opened the scoring with 9 seconds left in the first period, and gave the Kings a 2-1 lead at 5:17 of the second.

Jarret Stoll added a power-play goal at 8:30 of the third, a goal originally credited to Brown. Trevor Lewis made it 4-1 with 5:09 left.

Brown became the 12th player – Wayne Greyzky did it twice – to score two short-handed goals in a playoff game. John Madden was the last previous player to accomplish the feat, doing it for New Jersey against the New York Rangers in 2006.

Quick made 22 saves in the third period, allowing only Samuel Pahlsson's goal with 3:38 to play. Jannik Hansen also scored for Vancouver, the Presidents' Trophy winner as the NHL regular-season points leader.

Game 3 is Sunday night in Los Angeles.

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Comments

[YeahDonkey]

12:02 PM on 04/14/2012

DATE NIGHT IN VANCOUVER!!!! Soon you can riot till your hearts content all the while getting those great pictures of you and your girlfriend making out with riot police all around!!!!

[piceaglauca]

10:23 AM on 04/14/2012

Are Vancouver's fans going to be really angry this year? What's the plans for downtown activities? Let's have a quick end to this series in LA.

[kahunacook]

11:39 AM on 04/14/2012

I was thinking the same thing watching the end of the game last night. I hope the Canuck fans, or those folks using hockey as an excuse to riot, keep themselves under control this year.

[piceaglauca]

08:27 PM on 04/14/2012

I will go one step further in saying last year's behaviour gives a pretty clear indication of bums living in Vancouver and how they respect the community. Further to this is the poor job the police did in stopping it and charging those responsible as if they didn't want to upset some rich father. Personally I hope Vancouver loses two more. I don't blame the club itself but Toronto has done nothing for eight years but obviously Torontonians know how to act in the face of defeat.