NEW YORK — The outcome of a hockey game is decided by many factors. Some are more pronounced than others, depending on the game itself.
Skill, determination, toughness, speed, intelligence are always part of the story. Sometimes people will wax poetic about heart and grit. Other times it's something as simple as special teams.
The Los Angeles Kings are one win from their second Stanley Cup in three years after a 3-0 victory against the New York Rangers in Game 3 of this Final series Monday night at Madison Square Garden. Perhaps you'll hear about how the Kings "just know how to win" or some other strain of that narrative coming out of this contest in which the Rangers controlled play for long stretches but had nothing to show for it.
There's truth in that. There is three years of evidence that proves the Kings truly know how to win.
But that's not why the Kings won Game 3.
The Kings were fortunate on this night. They got the bounces. They got lucky.
But they earned that good fortune. They earned those bounces. They earned that luck.
And the man most respons ...
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Article written by Dave Lozo
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