
Sitting in another jubilant dressing room deep inside another dazed road arena, Anze Kopitar simply stopped trying to explain the Los Angeles Kings' big-game brilliance. In nearly every tight playoff spot over the last three years, his Kings have emerged and advanced - even when they end the career of hockey icon Teemu Selanne along the way. Kopitar knows the Kings' tenacity can't be easily defined, and it's almost impossible to capture. But it has taken them all the way back to the Western Conference finals after they finished off the rival Anaheim Ducks in grand style, 6-2 in Game 7 on Friday night.
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