Darryl Sutter could not have scripted a more dominant performance from his team on Friday.
The seventh game in what had been a tight series between the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks was supposed to be a battle between equals, a final contest that brought out the best in both clubs and resulted in the best hockey yet between these teams.
The Kings delivered, the Ducks didn’t, and the result was a lopsided affair in which the final score was 6-2.
It wasn’t a case of the Kings catching all of the breaks, either. Tyler Toffoli blasted a puck off of the goalpost in the first period after what (even at that point) felt like just another Anaheim defensive breakdown; Slava Voynov would ring another shot off of the iron on the power play later in the same frame.
Anaheim had some things go their way offensively, too. Corey Perry made a solid play to block a shot at his own blue line in the first period, but the puck went off the shaft of his stick, weakening it. As he streaked away on a breakaway, the referee mistook his broken stick for a slash by Drew Doughty rather than what it was; the ...
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