It almost seems unfair that the New York Rangers are on the verge of being swept in the Stanley Cup Final.
In Game 1 New York took a 2-0 lead and never trailed; it lost in overtime. In Game 2 New York had 2-0 and 4-2 leads and never trailed; it lost in overtime. Even in Game 3, where a 3-0 Kings final tells the story of a dominant performance by the winning team, the result was closer than it appeared.
None of that matters. The Kings now boast a 3-0 series lead and have a very decent shot at posting the first four-game Stanley Cup Final win since 1998, when the Detroit Red Wings beat the Washington Capitals.
If anything, the closeness is just salt in the wound.
A look through the goals shows how close basically all of them were to going the other way:
Jeff Carter’s backbreaking goal with less than a second left in the first period gave the Kings a 1-0 lead. With a three-on-three rush and time running out, it should never have happened, but John Moore and Rick Nash inexplicably double-teamed Justin Williams. Dan Girardi’s block was either a fraction of a second too late or a ...
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