Los Angeles Kings vs. Vancouver Canucks

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Downtown in the middle of December does something it manages at no other point in the year. The plaza is lit, there is a rink outside the building as well as inside it, and the whole stretch between the arena and the restaurants feels briefly like a place people live rather than a place people park. A Saturday night hockey game sits inside that perfectly. Vancouver is the visitor, which means a division game with actual standings consequences and a travelling support that treats a December trip to California as a holiday they have earned. Go early and walk around before you go in. The game is the reason, but the hour beforehand is the part you will describe to somebody afterwards, and it only exists for about three weeks a year. One practical note worth having: the lot prices downtown climb all through December, so the train is genuinely the better call on a Saturday in the middle of the month, and it drops you close enough that you never see a car park at all.