Here are some tidbits about both team, just to keep us from going crazy until the finals start!
KINGS "THAT 70'S" LINE
#77 Carter #70 Pearson #73 Toffoli
Kings are 1st team in history to win 3 road games in the playoffs
Kings only Stanley Cup Win was in 2012. They started that playoff as the lowest ranked wild card and beat the canucks to move on.
NY Rangers
This is their first stanley cup final appearce since 1994 - 20 years ago.
They have wins in 1928, 1933, 1940, 1994
1994 they beat the canucks taking it to the 7th game. hmmm seems like the canucks might be the team to play in the playoffs (haha - i love the canucks)
PLAYOFF STATS
4 of the 5 Points leaders all from the kings
Kopitar (24) J. Carter (22) Gaborik (19) J Williams (18)
Goal Leaders: Gaborik (12) J Carter (9)
Assists: Kopitar (19) J. Carter (13) Doughty (12)
+/_: J Williams (11) Kopitar (9) Pearson (9)
Goalie Stats
SV% - King Henrik Lundqvist .928 is the leader
Jonathan Quick .906 ranks 8th
GAA: Lundqvist ranks 2nd with 2.03
Jonathan Quick ranks 9th with 2.96
WINS:Quick & Lundqvist tied at 12 for the lead
so it would seem the question here is can the league leading offense of the Kings get thru the league leading goalie of the Rangers?
At first writing this, I thought the Kings must have played more games, but not really. For the playoffs, the rangers won 12 out of 20 and the kings won 12 out of 21. Looking at that, the points really fall on the side of the Kings, they are scoring machines but Lundqvist can be a wall!
BECAUSE ITS THE CUP!
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