The Los Angeles Kings host the Vancouver Canucks for the third-and-final time during the 2024-25 NHL Regular Season. They’ve split the season series with one win a piece, each team winning on the road.

The Kings come into this contest with a 5-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday.

Vancouver is looking to pick up their first victory since the season break, having lost to Vegas and Utah on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

LA are 6-2-2 in their last ten meetings with Vancouver, outscoring the Canucks 32-20 in that span. Of those thirty-two goals for the Kings, five have come on the power play; three in their last three matchups.

Power Play Coming Along at the Right Time

I don’t often get a chance to make my way down to the Toyota Sports Performance Center in El Segundo, CA, so what I’m about to say is merely speculation.

This season, the Kings power play has struggled to generate goals, currently operating at a 15.6% success rate. Even though LA has only found the back of the net nineteen times on the power play, Head Coach Jim Hiller has consistently gone with his core group of players.

Fans have clamored that the power play needs a shakeup – specifically a right-shot, scoring Winger.

Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Boy, do I know it! It’s hard to argue against changing up the power play – according to Einstein’s definition.

Going back to the beginning of this section where I mentioned I don’t get to make it out to practices, I assume the power play is working in that capacity. It’d have to be, right? I mean, if Hiller keeps rolling out the same power play skaters, he’d have to be getting positive results somewhere.

The Kings’ penalty kill unit is the fifth-best in the NHL, this season, at 82.2%. If their power play units are producing in practice, they're firing on all cylinders against one of the top PK units the league has to offer.

At some point, it was bound to transfer over into games and, since the season break, it's starting to (one power play goal in each game).

Puck drop is slated for 7:05 PM PST. You can watch the game via NHL on TNT or listen live with the ESPN LA app.