After winning each of the first three rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs despite being the lower seed, the New Jersey Devils will enter the finals as the host team. And they will carry in a 6-2 postseason record at the Prudential Center, which translates to a league-best .750 winning percentage on home ice.
As much as the opposing Los Angeles Kings have stressed that their eighth seed in the Western Conference is not indicative of their capabilities, one still has to believe they will meet their match in New Jersey. And although they were a perfect 8-0 away from the Staples Center en route to the Campbell Bowl, any streak like that only gets tougher to maintain by the day.
Facing the best home team of all 16 NHL playoff entries at the last stage of the tournament will only compound the challenge to keep pillaging opposing arenas. And if and when the Kings finally hatch the goose-egg in their visiting “L” column, especially within the first two games of the series, their response will be impossible to predict.
But on their end, all the Devils need to do to put Los Angeles in unfamiliar territory is split or sweep the first two games of ...
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