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Happy chaos and giddy smiles after the Kings take the Cup.

The Kings can't close the deal in L.A.

Puck Daddy's Greg Wyshynski talks to Bill about the L.A. Kings' dominance of the Stanley Cup finals. Then Cousin Sal joins to talk Mets no-hitter and, of course, gambling. You can listen to this podcast on iTunes or find it on the ESPN.com Podce...

It was the spring of 1997, and fans of rock'em sock'em hockey were getting all kinds of fired up. The Red Wings were set to face the Flyers in the Stanley Cup finals, and the series' defining matchup was both brutal and brutally obvious: Detroit's Vl...

Anze Kopitar scored in overtime Wednesday to lift the Los Angeles Kings to a 2-1 win over the New Jersey Devils in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals, a series that most expect to be a close one. While there's no natural rivalry to build on, there are ...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday. Despite Rajon Rondo's stellar performance — 44 points, eight assists, and 10 rebounds — the Miami Heat rallied from 15 points down to beat ...

The Kings and the Devils feel each other out in Game 1.

Here it is, at long last, after three rounds of bruising and bloody playoff hockey: The New Jersey Devils play host tonight to the Los Angeles King in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. It is the matchup everyone predicted at the start of the season a...

Martin Brodeur and the long, twisty road to the Stanley Cup.

Here is a video of the Official Team of L.A. Live the Only Team Still Currently Playing at L.A. Live, the Los Angeles Kings, beating the Phoenix Coyotes to advance to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1993. Hey! That was cool, right?...

With Thursday night's 2-1 win over the Phoenix Coyotes, the L.A. Kings, hockey's most emphatic playoff team, sit just one win away from a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals. Barring a catastrophic meltdown, it would be the team's first appearance in the ...

The first round of the NHL playoffs is quite possibly the two best weeks in all of sports. Yes, the Stanley Cup finals are nice, in that endlessly drawn-out "Why are they taking a week off before it starts?" way that the NHL insists upon. But the fir...

An anatomy of three hits.

By the end of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, the Bruins had become bears. Yes, the brown, four-legged beasts that gave the team its name and - for its first six seasons in the 1920s and '30s - its logo. But that's symbolism, and it's unsurprising....

After 39 years of waiting, the Bruins finally got the hot goalie.

Despite the blowouts, finger-biting, and rampant ill-behavior, the Vancouver Canucks are on the verge of a Stanley Cup. How on earth did that happen?