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June 4, 2012, Monday
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JEFF Carter scored at 13:42 in overtime and the Los Angeles Kings moved within two wins of their first National Hockey League title with a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals on Saturday night.
Jonathan Quick made 32 saves and Drew Doughty scored on a magnificent end-to-end rush as the Kings won their 10th straight road game this postseason, and their 12th in a row over the last two seasons. Both are NHL records. The Kings are now 14-2 in the postseason.
New Jersey had won eight of 10 games in beating the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers in the last two rounds in the Eastern Conference. Now the Devils head to Los Angeles for Game 3.
This marked the first time in 61 years that Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup finals were decided in overtime. The last occasion was the epic 1951 Stanley Cup matchup, where all five games between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens went to extra time. The Maple Leafs captured the Cup.
Carter ended this one with a great individual effort after the Kings outshot New Jersey 11-3 in OT, and only Martin Brodeur kept the Devils in the game.
Carter, one of a handful of former Flyers playing for the Kings, corralled a rebound from behind the net, preventing the Devils from grabbing a much-needed line change. He rolled around into the slot, from Brodeur's right-hand side, and let a wrist shot off that beat the standout goaltender along the ice on his stick side with Dustin Penner in front of the net as a screen, left unguarded.
It was Carter's fifth of the postseason and it gave the Kings another big edge in a series. The eighth-seeded Kings opened 3-0 leads in each of the first three rounds in the Western Conference.
Jonathan Quick made 32 saves and Drew Doughty scored on a magnificent end-to-end rush as the Kings won their 10th straight road game this postseason, and their 12th in a row over the last two seasons. Both are NHL records. The Kings are now 14-2 in the postseason.
New Jersey had won eight of 10 games in beating the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers in the last two rounds in the Eastern Conference. Now the Devils head to Los Angeles for Game 3.
This marked the first time in 61 years that Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup finals were decided in overtime. The last occasion was the epic 1951 Stanley Cup matchup, where all five games between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens went to extra time. The Maple Leafs captured the Cup.
Carter ended this one with a great individual effort after the Kings outshot New Jersey 11-3 in OT, and only Martin Brodeur kept the Devils in the game.
Carter, one of a handful of former Flyers playing for the Kings, corralled a rebound from behind the net, preventing the Devils from grabbing a much-needed line change. He rolled around into the slot, from Brodeur's right-hand side, and let a wrist shot off that beat the standout goaltender along the ice on his stick side with Dustin Penner in front of the net as a screen, left unguarded.
It was Carter's fifth of the postseason and it gave the Kings another big edge in a series. The eighth-seeded Kings opened 3-0 leads in each of the first three rounds in the Western Conference.
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