KINGS (35-26-19) at CANUCKS (24-48-8)

10 p.m. ET; SNP, FDSNSC

Once more into the breach of tedious LA hockey. Only fitting the last home game of this long and tedious season would feature the Kings of Sleepy Hockey. We're so fortunate.

Coming home after the victorious tour of SoCal to face the tedium of the team that made the 1st game of the tour so tedious.

Maybe the freshly energetic young Canucks can push the tedium into the LA net multiple times. Or... pad that 8-32-5 home record to the 33rd side.

Final ROG game of the season... which is sorta weird. There's been ROG games this season that felt quite final. Over and over. And over.

Enjoy this actual final ROG game. If the Nucks can help us enjoy it, that'd be great.

Game Day Chatter

Asked #Canucks Tom Willander about the young guys becoming leaders. This was part of his answer: "I think it's obviously very important that the young guys come in and want to achieve something and they aren't just happy with being here."

— Adam Kierszenblat (@adamkblat.bsky.social) April 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM

If these are the final few games for Adam Foote, he will become the second coach in #Canucks to coach at least 70 games and record fewer than 30 wins. The only other coach on that list is Vic Stasiuk, who went 22-47-9 with Vancouver.

— Adam Kierszenblat (@adamkblat.bsky.social) April 14, 2026 at 12:59 PM

Game Day Lineups

Kings projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Anze Kopitar -- Adrian Kempe

Trevor Moore -- Quinton Byfield -- Alex Laferriere

Joel Armia -- Scott Laughton -- Jared Wright

Mathieu Joseph -- Samuel Helenius -- Taylor Ward

Mikey Anderson -- Drew Doughty

Joel Edmundson -- Brandt Clarke

Brian Dumoulin -- Cody Ceci

Darcy Kuemper

Anton Forsberg

Scratched: Jacob Moverare

Injured: Jeff Malott (undisclosed), Alex Turcotte (undisclosed), Andrei Kuzmenko (meniscus)

Canucks projected lineup

Drew O’Connor -- Marco Rossi -- Linus Karlsson

Liam Ohgren -- Teddy Blueger -- Brock Boeser

Jake DeBrusk -- Elias Pettersson -- Nils Hoglander

Curtis Douglas -- Ty Mueller -- Aatu Raty

Zeev Buium -- Filip Hronek

Marcus Pettersson -- Tom Willander

Elias Pettersson -- Kirill Kudryavtsev

Kevin Lankinen

Nikita Tolopilo

Scratched: P.O. Joseph, Max Sasson, Victor Mancini

Injured: Evander Kane (undisclosed), Filip Chytil (facial fracture), Thatcher Demko (hip surgery), Derek Forbort (undisclosed)

Status report

The Kings did not hold a morning skate after a 5-3 win at the Seattle Kraken on Monday. ... Kuemper is expected to start after Forsberg started the previous four games. ... The Canucks will dress the same 18 skaters they used in a 4-3 overtime win at the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday.

Game Day Battle Hymn

Keep on keepin' on. Maybe winning, maybe losing. Going out in style. Maybe.

F*uck the war mongering fascists and enjoy the game. As best you can.