The Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils in 6 games to win the Stanley Cup. This the first Stanley Cup Chmapionship in the King's 45 year history. The Kings won the first three games of the series, New Jersey won Game 4 and Game 5 and Los Angeles won Game 6 at home to win the series 4 games to 2. Los Angeles finished with a 10-1 on the road in the playoffs the only loss coming in Game 5 which is amazing for #8 seed. Also Los Angeles became the only #8 seed to win the Stanley Cup and lowest seed ever has well. Jonathan Quick won the Conn Smythe Trophy for being the MVP of the playoffs. Quick had a record of 16-4 in the playoffs and he set NHL records for save percentage his was 94.6% and
goals-against average his 1.41 in the playoffs who played at least 15 playoff games. Quick becomes only the 16th goalie to win this award out of 46 players to win the award. Dustin Brown also became only the second American-born captain ever to win the Stanley Cup. Brown had a great playoffs has well, leading the NHL in points with 20, goals with 8 and plus/minus at +16. Anze Kopitar had all of the same stats as well. Los Angeles has a good chance of repeating next year. The also have a great chance to win their division next year after coming in 3rd place with 95 points only 2 points behind the Coyotes who won the division. New Jersey will probably have a much harder time making it back to the Stanley Cup Finals after finishing 4th in the stacked Atlantic Division behind the Rangers, Penguins and Flyers.
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