You predicted it: Kings and Canucks go to OT in Game 2

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April 17, 2010 9:41 PM PT

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Of course, the team that ended the season with five consecutive overtime or shootout games and started its playoff journey with an overtime loss had to go to sudden-death play again.

The Kings outshot the Canucks, 11-5, in the third period but the score remained at 2-2.

The third period was played at a breakneck pace, going end to end more rapidly than either coach could have wanted but a riveting show for the fans.

We’ll have more about these dramatic Kings later at www.latimes.com/sports

--Helene Elliott, reporting from Vancouver, Canada

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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