Alex Turcotte scored twice and notched an assist as the Los Angeles Kings thumped the struggling Vancouver Canucks 5-1 on Thursday.
Turcotte's first tally of the night came 51 seconds into the game and, before the end of the first period, the 23-year-old winger helped the Kings to a 3-0 lead.scored the lone goal for Vancouver with a long-range blast during a stretch of 4-on-4 hockey 14:52 into the second period.
Vancouver has lost six of their last seven games and fallen out of the Western Conference's second wild card spot.Canucks: The team's once-potent power play has dried up. Vancouver was 0-for-5 with the man advantage Thursday. The Canucks have not scored a power-play goal in four games, going 0-for-10 across that stretch.
Kings: It was the eighth time in 43 games that L.A. has score five or more goals. Turcotte earned the first multi-goal game of his NHL career on Thursday.A beautiful pass from Turcotte set up L.A.'s second goal in a 24-second span late in the first period. Stationed below the goal line, Turcotte slipped a behind-the-back pass to Kempe, who pulled the puck across the crease and tucked it in past Demko's outstretched skate to give the Kings a 3-0 lead at 9:42 of the first period.
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