It’s all over now except the celebrating. The Los Angeles
Kings claimed the first Stanley Cup title in their 45-year history with a 6-1
win over the New Jersey Devils on Monday night in Game 6 of the 2012 Stanley
Cup Final at the Staples Center in California.
Kings goaltender and former UMass netminder Jonathan Quick also
took home the Conn Smythe Trophy as the NHL playoff MVP after fashioning a
16-4 record during the postseason, along with a 1.41 goals-against average , a .946 save percentage
and three shutouts. He surrendered just seven goals in the six-game final,
in which the Kings won the first three games before New Jersey came back to win
the next two. LA then closed it out two nights ago to become the lowest-ever
seeded team (eighth) to win the title.
Former NCAA skaters joining Quick on the Kings roster were Davis
Drewiske (Wisconsin), Matt Greene (North Dakota), Alec Martinez (Miami),
Dustin Penner (Maine), Willie Mitchell
(Clarkson), Scott Parse (Nebraska-Omaha), Rob Scuderi (Boston
College), and Kevin Westgarth (Princeton). Penner had previously raised the Cup with Anaheim in 2007, while Scuderi won it before in 2009 with Pittsburgh.
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