FORTY FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING : NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE'S LOS ANGELES KINGS WIN THE STANLEY CUP............

The National Hockey League's Championship Trophy - The Stanley Cup, has been won by the Los Angeles Kings professional ice hockey team for the first time in the franchise's 45 year history.  The Los Angeles Kings, who just months ago few would have given much chance at being a contender for the 2012 Stanley Cup, defeated the New Jersey Devils to win this year's Championship, after taking a 3-0 lead in games won, before the Devils made a two game comeback, to be within striking distance of tieing the championship series,  The Devils became the first NHL team since 1945, to be down by three games to zero, and force a sixth game on their opponents in the quest to win the Stanley Cup in the championship face-off.  Last night, in Game 8, the L.A. Kings won the Stanley Cup by winning a 6 - 1 goal victory over the N.J.  Congratulations and Kudos, to the team and Coach Darryl Sutter, Goalie and MVP, Jonathan Quick, and to Team Captain Dustin Brown, who becomes only the second American Captain whose team has won the NHL Championship.  The Los Angeles Kings were among the first expansion teams added to the National Hockey League in the 1967 season, and have worked and struggled for the past four and a half decades to at last prevail as 2012's Stanley Cup Champions.  Have risen to the top of the annals of professional hockey may their mastery of the game make it much sooner than forty five years before they repeat this year's success............Fr.  Troy