Canucks Make It a Long Night for Kings and Hrudey

It was a long, tough night for goalie Kelly Hrudey, who gave up four goals before he was felled by a puck to the face mask in the third period, and later gave up one more goal in the Kings’ 6-3 exhibition loss to the Vancouver Canucks Tuesday night before a crowd of 12,320.

After the Canucks’ first four goals, Mike Krushelnyski scored for the Kings with less than two minutes to play in the second period. Vancouver responded with another goal, before the Kings made it 5-3 on Krushelnyski’s goal from the right circle and Luc Robitaille’s goal, after Vancouver goalie Kirk McLean made a glove save on a shot by Wayne Gretzky.

The Canucks later scored on an empty-net goal.

King Notes

The Kings, whose exhibition record is 2-4-2, will play the Vancouver Canucks again Thursday night at Phoenix. The game will be broadcast on KLAC (570) at 7:30 p.m. . . . The Kings’ Barry Beck played in his first game since retiring from the New York Rangers two years ago.