NHL: Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 2

LOS ANGELES, March 10 (UPI) -- Jarret Stoll scored a couple of power-play goals Monday night and the Los Angeles Kings beat Vancouver 3-2.

Denis Gauthier scored a goal, Teddy Purcell had two assists and Jonathan Quick made 20 saves for the Kings, who won their third straight game.

Alex Burrows and Taylor Pyatt scored goals and Roberto Luongo let in three goals on 22 shots for the Canucks, who lost for just the third time in 15 games and trail first-place Calgary by eight points in the Northwest Division. Vancouver has 76 points, good for fifth seed in the Western Conference playoff chase.

The Kings are12th in the West with 67 points, but only three points short of the eighth and final playoff spot.

Gauthier opened the scoring for LA at 3:35 of the first period and Stoll made it 2-0 at 12:17 on a feed from Purcell with the Kings up a man. Burrows made it 2-1 when he scored the first Vancouver goal at 4:40 of the second but the Kings got the decisive goal at 12:51 of the second on Stoll's second goal of the night.