NHL teams have managed to come back from a 2-0 series deficit to win a Stanley Cup only five times in the previous 48 occurrences.
That’s evidence that the New York Rangers badly need a win when they play the Los Angeles Kings tonight in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final.
Game 1 could have gone either way, but the Kings won in overtime after a bad bounce giveaway. What we learned in Game 1 is that the Kings will find goalie Henrik Lundqvist just as challenging to beat as Eastern Conference teams did.
Should the Rangers lose, the one statistical note of optimism is that the Boston Bruins erased a 2-0 deficit to win the 2011 Stanley Cup.
Here is a game plan for each team going into Game 2:
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