Los Angeles Captain Dustin Brown accepts trophy.
It started in Phoenix and it ended in Phoenix. Last night the Los Angeles Kings beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-3. With the winning goal scored late in the 1st period of overtime for the Western Conference Crown. Los Angeles in now heading to the Stanley Cup Final for the 1st time in 19 (since the Great One Gretzky was the Captain). King Captain Dustin Brown did not touch the trophy when he accepted on behalf of his team (hockey players are some of the most superstatious people ever). It was a very good game to watch. To say the least it was jammed packed with entertainment to the hard hitting series. Former Canuck and current Coyote, good looking Taylor Pyatt scored the opening goal in the early minutes of the 1st period, only to have King Anze Kopitar score his 6th goal of the playoffs and tie the game. The second period would be the highest goal scoring period in the series with 4 goal in 10 minutes. Two for Phoenix and two for Los Angeles. Both teams wanted to win bad and after a scoreless 3rd period it was onto sudden death overtime. It looked like it was heading to a 2nd period of OT but Dustin Penner scored his 3rd goal of the playoffs and it was a done deal. Like a lot of series goaltending played a huge factor in the success of both teams making it to the Conference Finals. Last night between both goalies 92 shots were taken! Los Angeles netminder Jonathan Quick had the slower night stopping 38 of 41 shots while Coyote netminder Mike Smith stopped 47 of a whopping 51 shots! Los Angeles to the Stanley Cup Final! With this series win it means Los Angeles elimnated the 1st seeded Vancouver Canucks in 5 games, 2nd seeded St. Louis Blues in 4 games and 3rd seeded Phoenix Coyotes in 5 games. That has to be a record! Congrats boys! Below check out video of Taylor Pyatt's opening game goal, Dustin Brown kneeing Michal Rozsival, Mike Smith playing without a glove, Dustin Penner game winning OT goal followed by the handshakes!
Mike Smith stopping the puck with his bare hands!
The quest for the Cup is over in Phoenix. The team salutes their fans in traditional fashion. Better luck next year Coyotes.
The winning team and their Trophy. If Los Angeles ends up winning the Stanley Cup it will be the 1st time in their 44 year franchise history!
Parise Shoots, Parise Scores!
The battle of the Hudson River is now tied 2-2 after Monday's game. The New Jersey Devils came out guns blazing wanting to avoid a loss and fall behind 3-1 in the series. Mission accomplished. With 2 goals in less then 4 minutes in in the 1st period and nothing for the Rangers the Devils had a slight bit of breathing room. A scoreless 2nd period meant the Devils had to kill off 20 minutes and they would win game 4. Devil Captain Zach Parise didn't think that was good enough and scored the 3rd goal for his team early in the 3rd period. Slight more breathing room for the team. Unlike the 3-0 shutout for the Rangers in game 3, New Jersey wasn't so lucky. Ruslan Fedotenko scored for the Rangers bringing his team within 2 goals. Leave it to veteran netminder and excellent puck handler Martin Brodeur to get the puck to Bryce Salvador who got it to Zach Parise who then shot it straight into an empty New York net with 89 seconds left in the game. Done like dinner. Game over. New Jersey ties the series and it heads back to Madison Square Garden for game 5. Both teams took 29 shots on net. Lundqvist stopped 26 shots and Brodeur stopped 28. Below check out the opening goal by Bryce Salvador and the empty netter by Parise! Enjoy
As Vancouver netminder Cory Schneider has said "as a goalie you have to wait for the play to come to you." Henrik Lundqvist showed how it is done while the faceoff gets organized in the New Jersey end of the ice.
Man of the hour Martin Brodeur answering questions after his team's game 4 victory.
New Jersey Devils Captain and oh so cute Zach Parise scored not only the insurance goal for his team to win game 4, Parise also scored the empty netter asssited by goalie Martin Brodeur.
With the Western Conference settled by the game 5 and 4-1 series win for the Los Angeles Kings, the only series still on is the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils.
Tonight the Devils and Rangers face off at 5:00pm
Keep in mind both theses teams have interesting standings when it come to game 5s in their prior series. It is really any team's game. In round 1 New York fell behind 3-2 in the series with a game 5 loss to the Ottawa Senators but won game 6 & 7 for the eventual win! New Jersey also fell behind 3-2 in their series in round 1 to the Florida Panthers but came back to win games 6 & 7 and win the series. New Jersey went on to win round 2 against the Philadelphia Flyers in 5 games only losing game 1 in round 2. New York on the other hand went back and forth for 7 games winning game 1, 3 ,5 and 7 against Braden Holtby and Alex Ovechkin's Washington Capitals in round 2. Only the future will tell with this series in the east. Enjoy X
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Tonight the Devils and Rangers face off at 5:00pm
Keep in mind both theses teams have interesting standings when it come to game 5s in their prior series. It is really any team's game. In round 1 New York fell behind 3-2 in the series with a game 5 loss to the Ottawa Senators but won game 6 & 7 for the eventual win! New Jersey also fell behind 3-2 in their series in round 1 to the Florida Panthers but came back to win games 6 & 7 and win the series. New Jersey went on to win round 2 against the Philadelphia Flyers in 5 games only losing game 1 in round 2. New York on the other hand went back and forth for 7 games winning game 1, 3 ,5 and 7 against Braden Holtby and Alex Ovechkin's Washington Capitals in round 2. Only the future will tell with this series in the east. Enjoy X
Also remember to sign up for the Scotiabank Marathon and support the Canucks Autism Network! http://canucksautism.ca/get-involved/scotiabank-half-marathon-and-5k-charity-challenge/.
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