The No. 8 Los Angeles Kings are continuing their unexpected NHL playoff run and are doing it in bold fashion.
They beat Phoenix 4-2 in order to take an early 1-0 series lead.
But the Coyotes are a good team and will be hard to beat on home ice. The Kings will need to play great hockey in order to put the home team in an insurmountable deficit.
Here are a big keys to the game for the Los Angeles Kings.
Play Aggressively
Not many people expected the Kings to make it this far. But they stayed hungry and proved the doubters wrong.
That type of aggression and will to win is what propelled Los Angeles to such an outburst in the playoffs.
They can’t lose that.
The reason that the Kings kept winning is because they had their backs against the wall. They had a chip on their shoulder. No one outside their locker room believed in them.
They wanted to win more then the Vancouver Canucks wanted to win. They out-willed the Saint Louis Blues.
If they become overconfident and feel like they have th ...
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