It turns out the comeback kids are pretty good in front, too.
Jeff Carter gave the Los Angeles Kings their first lead in over 229 minutes, Drew Doughty and Mike Richards added insurance, and Jonathan Quick shut the door with 32 saves in a 3-0 win over the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Monday night.
L.A. now leads the series, 3-0, an advantage that has proved almost always insurmountable in the Stanley Cup final in the past.
After winning the Game 2 comeback thriller in double overtime—a record third straight postseason win after trailing by two goals—the Kings stressed getting off to a better start.
Dustin Brown, via ESPN's Pierre LeBrun, put it best:
The mentality of our team is very black and white. We've been missing that in the first period. Again, in saying that, our mentality, it allows us to stay in games and to kind of turn the tide over the course of the game, has allowed us to come back. We have to get back to it at the start of games.
It took 19 minutes and 59.3 seconds, but they were finally able take a ...
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