Five minutes later former Rangers forward Marian Gaborik scored his league leading 13th goal of this year’s playoffs to tie the game. Midway through the 2nd overtime period Kings captain Dustin Brown deflected a Willie Mitchell shot past Lundqvist to give the Kings a commanding lead in the series. They become the first team in history to win three straight Stanley Cup Playoff games after trailing 2-0.
GAME 3: Madison Square Garden
For the first time in ten days the scoreline of an LA Kings game read 1-0 to the Kings. This coming as late as you could probably get it in the 1st period as Jeff Carter beat Lundqvist with just 0.8 seconds remaining. The Kings moved within one win of the Stanley Cup as they blanked the Rangers, becoming the first safe two goal lead of the final. In the build up to the opening goal the Rangers had the chance to dump the puck in the LA zone and get into the 1st intermission at 0-0. Rick Nash tried to do this with just over seven seconds left. The puck was stopped 14 feet into the Kings zone by Slava Voynov who fed it forward to the halfway line where Justin Williams and Jeff Carter found themselves with a late late opportunity. Williams took the puck down the right in the Rangers zone before centering to an open Carter who fired a shot with 1.2 seconds remaining with the puck crossing the goal line 0.4 seconds after leaving his stick.
This was a heavy blow for the Rangers players and fans. The already nervous MSG crowd were stunned into silence.
Photos Courtesy Of David E Klutho
Kings win 5-4 (Double OT) - GWG: Dustin Brown (10:26 OT2)
Photos Courtesy Of Al Tielemans