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Prior to the commencement of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, I was about 90% that this year the Cup belonged to my beloved Penguins. I guess I should have taken those two botched games against the Islanders late in the season as a forewarning. Anywho, in my anticipation of the Penguins impending dominance, I ran a single simulation of the entire playoffs using NHL 12. Who won that simulation?
The LA Kings.
Apparently the game knew something that I, nor every other fan of the NHL didn't. It said that the LA Kings, an eighth seed (the lowest seed in the NHL playoffs) were to triumph over the Pittsburgh Penguins, a team one point outside of 1st place in the Eastern Conference. At the time, I laughed it off. The notion that an eighth seed would win the Cup, regardless of opponent, was utterly ridiculous. Yet here we are, a month and a half later, and the Kings have defeated the New Jersey Devils in 6 games to win their first Stanley Cup, an event 45 years in the making. But they did more than win the Stanley Cup; they made history.
