Kings Go into Vancouver and Win 3rd Straight in a Shoot Out

Jeremy Roenick doesn't think he has anything left to prove.

He showed USA Hockey that they might have made a mistake leaving him off the Olympic team anyway.

Roenick laid a big hit on Brendan Morrison five seconds into the game, then scored Los Angeles first goal and set up Derek Armstrong for the second, rallying the Kings from an early two-goal deficit before Alexander Frolov scored the lone goal of the shootout to give them a 4-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks Monday night.

"I don't need to prove myself to anybody," said Roenick, who wasn't among the 23 players named to the U.S. squad before the game started. "There's nobody on that Olympic team that has scored more points than I have, who has had a career like I have in terms of physicality and putting points on the board and being a leader."

With 481 goals and 1,133 points during 17 NHL seasons, Roenick is second all time among American-born players in both categories. But with just five goals and six assists this season before the team was announced, he wasn't surprised to be left off.

That didn't mean the 35-year-old understood, or agreed with, the decision.

"I think they were blackballing me from the beginning," said Roenick, who represented the U.S. at the 1998 and 2002 Olympics.

"I m one of the guys who has gotten USA to where it is today and to not have the opportunity to go back and try to win a gold one more time, to me it's just disrespectful. They can beat me down and say I'm over the hill or say that I don't have it anymore, but to me I know that I do."

He did against the Canucks, but his goal and assist snapped an eight-game drought and was first multiple-point game since scoring twice in the season opener