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It's not a specific moment per se but watching Jarret Stoll play the game of his life after the embarrassing start to the Sharks series. Stoll was the embodiment of Darryl Sutter's quote "we won't go quietly", just crushing Sharks left and right and absolutely hounding the puck. He took the team on his back and led the Kings rally. We don't win the Cup without him, which obviously can be said for a lot of guys on this team but I feel like he's really the one who got the whole thing started.
Martinez in Game 7. It was against Chicago, and especially the way it happened.
For the last 2 years, the Hawks would always get the better of the Kings, and it started in the Cup banner game. The Kings come back and win Game 2 this year, then go up 3-1 in the series. Had the Kings managed to finish it off in 5, or even 6, maybe it wouldn't have felt the same. That Chicago won in that crazy OT in Game 5, and then beat the Kings in LA, in the 3rd period, to win Game 6, I was wondering if the Hawks were really going to do it to the Kings yet again. Then the Kings are down 2-0 in Game 7, then 3-2, then 4-3, only to tie it up each time, and then win in OT.
Could easily pick many moments from any of the 4 series, and it feels weird to pick something other than the Cup winner in an OT that had 4 posts and multiple chances back and forth, but that win in Chicago was the moment for me.