The Los Angeles Kings will end the 2012 season with the Stanley Cup, and there's very little the New Jersey Devils can do about it.
Sometimes, a team has destiny on their side, and it seems that the Los Angeles Kings are just one of those teams.
The Kings began their unlikely playoff run as an eighth seed but have looked like the No. 1 seed from the very outset of these playoffs.
The Kings have dominated on their way to a Stanley Cup Final berth, losing a mere two games in their first three series. The Devils have been a surprise story in their own right, emerging out of the East as a sixth-seed, but they haven't been nearly as dominant. The Devils needed seven games to get out of the first round against the Florida Panthers.
The Kings outworked the Devils to take a hard-fought lead in Game 1 of the series, when star Anze Kopitar scored the game-winning goal in overtime. The road to victory for the Kings to open up the series comes as no surprise, as they remained undefeated on the road in these playoffs.
With the Kings' dominance on the road, the Devils must be able to travel to L.A. and regain the home-ice advantage—whi ...
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