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The Kings have a date with the Stanley Cup! Overlooking the fact tonight's clinching of the NHL Western Conference championship makes up for the disappointing loss by the Lakers and the expected defeat of the Clippers in the NBA playoffs, the L.A. Kings' return to the Stanley Cup Finals marks the second time in almost 20 years that this franchise reached the championship round (during the Wayne Gretzky era)...and also the second time in 5 years that a SoCal team was only 4 wins away from taking the Stanley Cup trophy. The Anaheim Ducks won it back in 2007.
Let's see if the Kings will soon be able to have their own championship banner hang next to those of the Lakers at STAPLES Center...the same way the Ducks' banner triumphantly hangs from a rafter at the Honda Center (as shown in the camera phone pic I took below) in Orange County. Not to jinx the Kings or anything. Carry on.
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