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Biggest Game in Franchise History: Kings Edition

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Welcome back to the Last Word on Hockey’s summer series where we look at the biggest game in team history. Each day we will be back with a new team to look at. Looking at things like the lead-up, what happened, followed, and why it makes it the biggest game. The biggest game does not automatically mean a win, either. Sometimes, it can be a loss that set the franchise back massively. Sit back and enjoy as we break down all 31 teams’ most important game. In this article, we will discuss the Los Angeles Kings biggest game in franchise history. The full series is found here.

Los Angeles Kings Biggest Game in Franchise History
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Winning that game at the end of the season 2007-2008 season making us miss Steven Stamkos and instead got the better player in Doughty. Solidifying our D core, allowing us be ok wiffing on Hickey and trading JJ for Carter. So in effect Erik Ersberg won us the cup!
 
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Herby said:
Very good read.

I might be biased since I was at the game and missed the cup clinching games, but I think the win over Chicago has to go down as the greatest game in franchise history.
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Agreed. I’m not a young man anymore, and I remember lifting my 200lb brother off his feet when we were both celebrating Martinez’s goal.

Kings just wouldn’t die that game. 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4 OT win. Insane.

Game seven in the Sharks series to complete the reverse sweep has to be up there, too. No exciting back and forth like in the Hawks series, just controlled domination at both ends of the ice from puck drop to final bell.

Other games deserve the “greatest game” moniker more, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy reverse sweeping the Sharks the most.
 
I'm going to go with a loss that had a significant impact on the team's history.

December 10, 2011. A 2-1 loss against the Dallas Stars. It would be Terry Murray's final game as head coach of the Kings. It resulted in a coaching change that changed the course of history for the Kings when they hired a head coach who did something about the malaise nature of this team.
 
For me it's game 7 in Toronto. After the game me and a friend drove to The Forum, waited in the parking lot with some other King fans hoping to get tickets to the Finals. At about 9 am they announce they announced Final tickets were sold before the semis.
 
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BigKing said:
Game 6 2012 Finals.

For all the unstoppable talk of that run, they are going to a road Game 7 for the Cup if they lose that game.

They didn't and took the first ever Cup for the franchise. All that 2014 magic is in doubt if they don't win this one.
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YP44 said:
Game 5 of the 2014 western finals was the most entertaining OT i have every watched. Wrong team won but god was it exciting.
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People always gloss over game 6. The third period was amazing with the lead changes.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
Good thing digital copies of those games exist, for those of us who don't get NHL Network.
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Really? Where? You can't get them from the NHL The idea of, "I'd like to watch this game whenever I'd like, give me a copy, take my money. TAKE MY MONEY!!!" is apparently completely foreign to them. Taking people's money for things they want that you have is no way to run a business.
I've been trying to torrent the full games from their cup runs for years now. With mixed success. I have, maybe, 60% of the wins (I'm not bothering with the losses. It's no fun to watch your team lose) from the 2 cup runs.
(Hilariously, the only copy I have found of game 7 of the Chicago series has a Russian overdub. You can barely hear the NBC announcers underneath. But it's mostly listening to a Russian play-by-play and color commentary. Takes a little away from the game. But at least it's the full game. Not the cut-up ones from the NHL network.)
 
I'm still annoyed there were never full playoff series releases of 2012 and 2014 from the org. I would have thrown down decent cash for a box set like that.
 
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I don't know if it was the biggest, but game 5 of the 2012 playoffs against Vancouver will always be one of the fondest for me. When the Kings finished off the president trophy winning Canucks who had terrorized the Kings for years you got the sense that the Kings might be for real. They completely embarrassed Kesler and Burroughs that series and set the franchise on a brand new path. Game 1 from that same series also is right up there for me for similar reasons.
 
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