Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers faceoff at Madison Square Garden in New York City for Game 3 of their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Final. The game can be live streamed for free here. Los Angeles fans can hear all of the action on Fox Sports 570 while New York fans can do the same on ESPN 98.7.
Los Angeles looks to take a commanding 3-0 lead after taking advantage of home ice with two thrilling victories while New York hopes that coming home for the first time will help it dig its way out of a 2-0 hole as the series shifts to Madison Square Garden.
The Kings took Game 1 of the series 4-3 in overtime last Wednesday and then defeated the Rangers 5-4 in double overtime Saturday in Game 2 to leave the Staples Center in Los Angeles two wins away from their second Stanley Cup in three years.
The Kings have yet to lead in this series, but have won both games and they aren't too worried about fatigue catching up to them entering their 24th playoff game this spring.
[It's] a lot of hockey," coach Darryl Sutter said per NHL.com. "There's always lots of talk about depth and those things. Somebody is on a little bit of a roll or not. They'll talk about having depth, not having depth. Depth only matters when you win. You need depth when you get to overtime games and games after overtime games."
While being down 2-0 is daunting, the Rangers are confident they can turn this thing around at home.
"Our guys are going to be real focused tomorrow," coach Alain Vigneault said Sunday per NHL.com. "We need to hold serve. We're back in our building. We've played some good hockey. We might feel that we deserve a better outcome than what we have right now, which is trailing by two games."
The Rangers have been led on the score sheet this postseason by Ryan McDonagh, who has 16 points off of four goals and 12 assists while Martin St. Louis (seven tallies, seven helpers) and Derek Stepan (five markers, nine assists) each have 14 points to rank second the team.
New York will look to hold onto leads after blowing two 2-0 leads in the first two games and a 4-2 lead in Game 2.
Anze Kopitar has paced the Kings and the entire playoffs in points (25) and assists (20) and has added five goals while Marian Gaborik leads the NHL by finding the back of the cage 13 times and he has also added seven helpers for 20 points.
Jeff Carter (nine goals, 14 assists) and Justin Williams (eight tallies, 15 helpers) are tied for second on the Kings with 23 points.
In net, Los Angeles turns to Jonathan Quick, who is 14-9 with a 2.80 goals-against average and .905 save percentage while New York turns to Henrik Lundqvist, who is 12-9 and ranks second in the postseason with a 2.16 GAA and a .925 save percentage.
The Kings and Rangers continue their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Final series when they take the ice tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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