Vancouver Canucks vs Los Angeles Kings Live Streaming

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10:00 pm EDT Wed Apr 21, 2010

Drew Doughty and Jack Johnson have been the Los Angeles Kings’ distant shining future on defense ever since the club acquired the pair of top-three draft picks a few years ago. After watching these youngsters run Los Angeles’ power play during their first three playoff games, it’s undeniable the Kings’ future has already arrived — and it’s equally obvious the Vancouver Canucks have little future themselves unless they figure out how to stop the Kings’ dynamic defensive duo. Playing together on the power play for the first consistent stretch of their brief careers, Doughty and Johnson have scored five points apiece while propelling the Kings to seven man-advantage goals and giving Los Angeles a 2-1 first-round series lead over the Canucks.

Game 4 is Wednesday night at Staples Center, where Los Angeles went ahead in its first playoff series since 2002 with a 3-for-3 power-play performance in a 5-3 victory Monday. With Doughty and Johnson quarterbacking the attack from opposite ends of the blue line, the Kings are 7 for 12 on the power play, by far the NHL’s best percentage heading into Tuesday’s games. With their smooth passes and vicious shots reducing Vancouver’s penalty killers to tentative impotence, Doughty had a power-play goal and three assists in Game 3, while Johnson had three assists of his own. Although the 20-year-old Doughty still is too young to drink in Los Angeles and the 23-year-old Johnson can’t yet rent most cars, the defensemen have been a pair of aces since shortly after they got back from the Olympics, where Doughty starred for Canada and Johnson excelled for the U.S. team.