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As the New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings get set to begin the Stanley Cup Final this week, the Philadelphia Flyers are preparing for next season.
The 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Finals will begin on May 30, 2012. The series will include the Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Devils and the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Kings. Neither team was supposed to survive the first round. The Kings were a No. 8 seed and the Devils were a No. 6 seed. Both teams have defeated No. 1 seeds en route to this Stanley Cup Finals appearance.
The 2012 Stanley Cup Final are set. With Friday's 3-2 overtime victory in hand, the Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Devils have secured their chance to face the Western Conference's Los Angeles Kings in the NHL 's title-deciding series. The matchup is, indeed, arguably the most unlikely in league history—after all, No. 6 and No. 8 seeds have never before met in the cup final. But the ...
When New Jersey Devils star winger Ilya Kovalchuk takes part in the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals, he will try to prevent the Los Angeles Kings from hoisting the Stanley Cup, which was something many Kings fans used to envision the Russian star doing for their team. The Kings made a hard push to sign Kovalchuk as a free agent during the summer of 2010, but he ultimately chose to re-sign with the ...
Kragthorpe: Stanley Cup within reach of Utah’s King By Kurt Kragthorpe Tribune Columnist Published May 26, 2012 11:18PM MDT Even as a 12-year-old hockey player in Utah, Trevor Lewis somehow knew this chance would come. The kid stood next to the Stanley Cup, smiling to reveal the braces on his teeth as he posed for a photo with his father, but that’s as close as he would get to the most famous ...
The day has finally come. The Chicago Blackhawks don't owe Cristobal Huet any more money. Huet was signed on the first day of free agency in 2008. His four-year deal was worth $22.4 million and, along with the contract given to Brian Campbell, was a sign the Blackhawks wanted to win again. Unfortunately for Huet, his stay in Chicago lasted only two seasons. He has spent the last two years on ...
If the Los Angeles Kings can win four more games this postseason, then goalie Jonathan Quick will become the 41st player to be awarded the NHL 's prestigious Conn Smythe Trophy that's given to the most valuable player in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Quick has been exceptional and without a doubt LA's best player throughout the past three series, saving 94.6 percent of the shots he's faced in these ...
On Wednesday, the New Jersey Devils will host the Los Angeles Kings for Game 1 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals . It wasn't the matchup most of us were expecting when the postseason got underway seven weeks ago, but it's a series with plenty of potential intrigue. Neither team attracted much attention over the course of the regular season, and neither the sixth-seeded Devils nor the eighth-seeded ...
The Los Angeles Kings have had a tough schedule on their way to the Stanley Cup Finals as a No. 8 seed, but they haven't let that stop them, winning all eight road games during their postseason run. Their road dominance will continue to serve them well in the Finals, and they will start out the series in New Jersey to face the Devils for the first two games ( Stanley Cup Finals Schedule, via ...
With Brodeur nearing his 40th birthday and entering final year of his contract, early part of this season had the look of a last hurrah
Los Angeles Kings ' goalie Jonathan Quick needs to have a dominant series if his team wants to beat the New Jersey Devils and win the Stanley Cup, and that's exactly what he's going to give them. The biggest moments in sports often demand an equally big, if not bigger, performance from stars, so there is no doubt that the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals will provide some dominant hockey from both the ...
The Los Angeles Kings ripped through the NHL's Western Conference, but a feisty and capable New Jersey Devils squad still stands between them and Lord Stanley's Cup. Like the Kings, the Devils are entering the Stanley Cup Final with a hot goaltender, some high scoring wingers and a dramatic overtime victory immediately in their rear-view mirror. They certainly won't be an easy out, and I'm ...
Jonathan Quick went from an unknown goalie to a solid goalie to a Vezina trophy finalist. And throughout his run, he's led the Kings to the Stanley Cup Finals. Los Angeles, the eighth seed in the West, beat the Canucks , Blues and Coyotes (the top three teams in the West) en route to a West title. Now, the Kings have the sixth seed in the East, the New Jersey Devils , ahead of them. New Jersey ...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — With Martin Brodeur nearing his 40th birthday and entering the final year of his contract, this season at first had the look of a last hurrah for the New Jersey Devils' goalie great.
For our friends out West and those whose teams might have either not made the playoffs or played the Devils this postseason, we need to talk about Adam Henrique . The first thing you should know is that Henrique is a draft steal. Chosen 82nd overall in the third round of the 2008 draft by the New Jersey Devils , Henrique was projected to be a bottom-six grinding center, who could chip in ...
The Los Angeles Kings are in the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals, and hockey fans in the City of Angels are obviously excited. I enjoy watching hockey on occasion and I respect the speed, skill and passion required to play the game. However, I wouldn't necessarily categorize myself as a hockey fan. As a Seattle native now living in Los Angeles, I didn't exactly grow up with hockey. Some of my hockey ...
Here are a dozen intriguing individuals to get to know as the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils prepare to meet in the championship series opener in Newark on Wednesday.
The Los Angeles Kings barely made the NHL playoffs this season and actually lost more games than they won in the regular season (40-27-15), squeaking into the postseason as the Western Conference's eighth seed. Someone apparently forgot to tell the Kings that, as the team jackstomped its way through the Western Conference playoffs en route to representing the West in the Stanley Cup Final. The ...
The Stanley Cup Final matches two teams that haven't met for seven months. Here's a comparison. NO. 8 KINGS (40-27-15) vs. NO. 6 NEW JERSEY (48-28-6)
While the Devils and Kings didn’t face each other many times this season, just twice and those don’t mean much now , these two franchises have a lot of links tying them together.
NEWARK, N.J. - Martin Brodeur is back in the Stanley Cup finals at age 40. After the New Jersey Devils missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 1996, the veteran goalie was under the microscope.
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