Sunday, May 6, 2012

Stanley Cup Playoffs: Happy Birthday Present For Marty The Magnificent As Devils Erase Two-Goal Deficit To Take 3-1 Series Lead; Kings Complete Sweep Of Blues

The Stanley Cup Playoffs continued with two games on Sunday.


EASTERN CONFERENCE:


At Philadelphia:


Martin Brodeur celebrated his 40th birthday as the New Jersey Devils came back from a two-goal deficit with four unanswered tallies---from Petr Sykora (power play), Marek Zidlicky, and Dainius Zubrus (two, one of them an empty netter)---in their 4-2 home win over the Philadelphia Flyers as they took a three-games-to-one conference semifinal series lead.  Marty the Magnificent stopped 20 of 22 shots.  The Devils can close out the series with a win in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.


WESTERN CONFERENCE:


At Los Angeles:


Dustin Brown scored twice (once an empty netter) and Jonathan Quick stopped 23 of 24 shots as the Los Angeles Kings completed a four-game sweep of their conference semifinal series with the St. Louis Blues  3-1 at home.  The Kings advance to a conference final for only the second time in their history (the other time was 1993, when they reached their only Stanley Cup Final appearance).

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