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Brandon Sutter had two goals and an assist,
Quinn Hughes had a goal and an assist and Tanner Pearson
provided two assists for the Canucks, who received 37 saves from
Jacob Markstrom in their first win of the season.
Elias Pettersson, Chris Tanev, Alexander Edler and Josh Leivo
also scored for Vancouver.
Tyler Toffoli and Sean Walker each scored their second goals of
the season for the Kings, who were coming off their first win of
the season, a 4-3 overtime victory at the Calgary Flames on
Tuesday night.
Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick made 17 saves on 25 shots. He
has allowed 14 goals on 56 shots this season.
The Canucks came in 0-for-10 this season on the power play, but
Hughes scored on their first man advantage at 5:26 of the first
period.
Hughes, who will turn 20 on Monday, is the youngest Vancouver
defenseman to score a goal since J.J. Daigneault on April 6,
1985.
Sutter scored 42 seconds later to make it 2-0.
Pettersson, who scored a team-leading 28 goals as a rookie for
the Canucks last season, scored his first goal of the season at
2:34 of the second to stretch the lead to 3-0.
Toffoli made it 3-1 at 7:28 of the second period.
He got a step ahead of Vancouver forward Micheal Ferland coming
into the Canucks zone, took a feed from Carl Grundstrom and beat
Markstrom one-on-one.
Miller stretched the lead back to three goals when he tried to
pass the puck into the slot from the side of the net, but the
puck hit the skate of Kings forward Ilya Kovalchuk and was
redirected into the net at 14:44 of the second period.
Walker scored at 6:51 of the third period to make it 4-2, but
Tanev, Edler, Leivo and Sutter scored over the final 12 1/2
minutes to make it 8-2.
--Field Level Media
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