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NEW YORK -- Accustomed to clawing back from deficits, the
comeback Los Angeles Kings now must figure out how to
play with a series lead. Despite not leading for a single
second in this Stanley Cup final, Los Angeles has a two
games to none lead on the New York Rangers. Thats not
something players are proud of, but somehow it has
worked. You can listen to Game 3 on TSN Radio at 8pm
et/5pm pt and watch the post-game news conferences on
TSN.ca and TSN GO. "We find ourselves in the same
situation reguritating the same mumbo jumbo every time,"
winger Justin Williams said. "Were in a results-oriented
league, and the results are were up 2-0. I dont care how
we got here." The Kings have gotten to Monday nights Game
3 by winning four times in these playoffs after falling
behind by at least two goals. One more would tie the
record set by the 1987 Philadelphia Flyers. Adept, if not
comfortable, at coming from behind, the bigger question
for the Kings is how theyll handle what on paper is a
comfortable lead over the Rangers through two games but
based on the play is far from it. They already saw their
2-0 series lead over the Anaheim Ducks in the Pacific
Division turn into a 3-2 deficit, and theyre hopeful that
history wont repeat itself. "Momentum is a big part of
playoff hockey and once a team has it, its important to
try to switch the tide in your favour as quick as
possible," forward Dwight King said. "The longer you let
that go, like in the Anaheim series, they get a little
more confident and feeling good about their game. When
youre playing a team thats got that going for them, its a
little tougher to defend." The Rangers sound like a
confident group because theyve gone stride for stride
with the seasoned Kings and could believe theyre a couple
of bounces away from being up 2-0. Coach Alain Vigneault
has been satisfied with his teams play save for one
period, and his players are attempting to focus more on
the positives on the ice than the deficit in the series.
"I think we played two good games over there," forward
Mats Zuccarello said after landing in White Plains, N.Y.
"I think we played the best hockey." Maybe the Kings
havent played their best hockey, and certainly they
havent at the start of games. Theyre the first team in
NHL history to win three straight playoff games after
trailing by two goals, having also done it in Game 7 of
the Western Conference final against the Chicago
Blackhawks. Williams said he can tell a lot about
teammates from studying their faces in trying times. "You
can read a lot (about) what someones thinking by just
looking at their face," he said. "Between the second and
third (Saturday) night I looked around and I didnt see
anyone scared. I saw a prepared team that knew what they
had to do." Thats thanks in large part to being here
before. From Williams to captain Dustin Brown, defenceman
Drew Doughty, centre Anze Kopitar and goaltender Jonathan
Quick down the roster, this core group has experience
going deep in the playoffs. The Kings also now have a
resume full of multi-goal comebacks, which hasnt
necessarily made digging out of holes easier but provided
perhaps some muscle memory when playing from behind. "I
feel together as a team weve been through almost all of
them you can imagine, and weve pulled through," Williams
said. "So when were down, do we feel comfortable? No, we
dont feel comfortable. But we feel like were able to come
back. And belief is a very underrated attribute, and we
have that going on within our team right now." Experience
from the 2012 Cup run could serve Los Angeles well right
about now. That Kings team went up at least two games to
none in every series on the way to the franchises first
championship. In these playoffs, they havent been as much
of a buzz saw. They fell behind 3-0 to the San Jose
Sharks in the first round before pulling off the
improbable series comeback and needed seven games against
the Ducks and Blackhawks, too. What the Kings havent had
in the same vein as their 2012 domination theyve made up
for with resilience. Coach Darryl Sutter sees experience
as the root of that. "Weve played a lot of hockey in May
and June over the past three seasons," Sutter said. "For
us, youre never not of the belief that you cant come back
or youre not going to win." The Rangers, who came back
from being down 3-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the
Metropolitan Division final, share that same belief.
Vigneault was short and to the point on what he thought
New York needed to do to get back into this series: win
Game 3 at Madison Square Garden. "We need to hold serve,"
Vigneault said in White Plains. "Were back in our
building. Weve played some good hockey. We might feel
that we deserve a better outcome than what we have right
now, which is trailing by two games. But it doesnt
matter. At the end of the day we got to take care of
business tomorrow, and thats what were going to do." If
anyone understands the mental approach of coming back,
its the Kings, who havent led for over 228 straight
minutes dating back to the conference final. And while
the Kings are quick to point to results, they cant
believe theyve broken the Rangers spirit already. "We
should know that more than anybody, that its tough to put
a team down," Williams said. "Especially when youre
playing for the Stanley Cup, its going to be hard to put
a team down. But we need to try to step a little bit more
on the throat tomorrow." Stepping on the Rangers throat
might as well be code for dont fall behind by two goals
again. Marian Gaborik, whom the Rangers traded at the
2013 deadline, knows more than anyone on the Kings just
how the Garden can sound and feel if things get hairy for
the visiting team. "To look around the building itself,
it has some sort of energy that you want to be in there
and just play," Gaborik said. Sutter, who has been coming
to the Garden for 30 years, knows it looks different now
following renovations but that the fans still have the
same moxie. "They love their team and they hate the other
team," he said. "Thats what you like. You like going into
buildings that are like that. Theyre loud, they say they
hate you, all those things, its good." Plenty of hatred
has already built up between the Kings and Rangers
already after two physically gruelling games. Fatigue
could be a factor as well, as the teams flew back from
Southern California on Sunday and did not take the ice
for practice. But the Kings are used to this. They made
similar trips against the New Jersey Devils in the final
two years ago before ultimately lifting the Cup back home
in Game 6. Theyre two victories away from doing it again.
And while this group is similar to the 2012 one, Williams
said he gets a similar feel to the 2006 Carolina
Hurricanes Cup-champion team he was on about never being
out of games. That kind of belief can go a long way, no
matter the score in a game or the situation in a series.
"Now we feel that anythings possible out there," Williams
said. "You get down two goals, it doesnt matter. You get
down three, I dont care. Were going to keep pushing, and
the term 60 minutes-plus certainly applies to anyone who
wants to beat us." NOTES -- Sutter did not provide an
update on Jeff Carter, who left Game 2 briefly after
taking a hip check from Ryan McDonagh but finished with
24:01 of ice time. The Kings coach said he wouldnt talk
about injuries because he didnt have to. ... Vigneault
similarly had nothing new to say about Rangers backup
goalie Cam Talbot, who has been unavailable in the Cup
final with an undisclosed injury.
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