Making Things Right: Doughty rebounds with winner to lead Kings past Canucks 4-3
VANCOUVER — Left red-faced on a highlight-reel sequence he says has only happened one other time in his career, it didn’t take Drew Doughty long to make amends.
The star defenceman scored the winner as the Los Angeles Kings fought back from a one-goal deficit in the third period Saturday to defeat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3.
Victimized by Nikolay Goldobin on a slick toe drag that tied the game 2-2 late in the second, Doughty picked up the puck with the score knotted 3-3 in the third after his initial shot was blocked by Canucks defenceman Alexander Edler, and ripped his seventh of the season past Jacob Markstrom’s blocker at 6:49.
“I don’t get dangled very often … only the second time I can remember in my NHL career where I got dangled for a goal,” said Doughty. “I was pretty embarrassed and pretty pissed off at myself.