:'' Number in parentheses represents the player's total in goals or assists to that point of the entire four rounds of the playoffs''
Game one Los Angeles scored first on
Colin Fraser's goal at 9:56 of the first period. The Kings then held the Devils without a shot on goal for the first 14 minutes of the second period, but could not increase their lead. The Devils tied the game at 18:48 of the second period when
Anton Volchenkov's shot bounced off of Kings defenceman
Slava Voynov and into the Los Angeles net. At 3:58 of the third period, a Devils goal was waved off when
Zach Parise illegally pushed the puck with his hand over the Kings goal line.
Anze Kopitar beat
Martin Brodeur on a breakaway goal 8:13 into overtime to give the Kings a 2–1 win in game one. With the win, the Kings became the first team to win their first nine road games in a single postseason.
Game two The Kings extended their 2012 playoff road winning streak to ten with another 2–1 overtime victory. This time, it was
Jeff Carter who scored at 13:42 of the extra period. After Carter's initial shot from the right side was stopped, he then went around the net to grab the puck on the other side and then made a shot through traffic that beat Martin Brodeur. Los Angeles scored first on
Drew Doughty's unassisted goal at 7:49 of the first period. The Devils tied the game at 2:59 of the third period when
Ryan Carter deflected
Marek Zidlicky's shot into the Kings' net. Neither team could take advantage of their power plays, nor on a 4-on-4 late in the third period. Both teams had more shots than game one; Jonathan Quick made 32 out of 33 saves, while Brodeur made 30 out of 32.
Game three Los Angeles scored four goals, and
Jonathan Quick stopped all 22 New Jersey shots, as the Kings defeated the Devils 4–0. The Kings' first goal at 5:58 of the second period was controversial. Dwight King's original shot against
Martin Brodeur was stopped, but King kept on swiping the puck until
Alec Martinez finally pushed it across the goal line. Brodeur argued that he had the puck covered up just before Martinez's shot, but the officials did not blow the play dead and the goal stood.> The Kings' scored their second goal at 15:07 of the third period when
Justin Williams sent a pass near the boards to
Dustin Brown, who then passed to
Anze Kopitar on the other side, who then lifted the puck over Brodeur. In the third period, two New Jersey penalties led to two Los Angeles power play goals. Meanwhile, New Jersey could not score off of Los Angeles' five penalties during the game, including
Jeff Carter's high-sticking double-minor in the first period that led to a Devils 5 on 3 for about a minute. This contest also saw the return of Kings' left winger
Simon Gagne, who had been out of the Los Angeles lineup since December 26, 2011, due to a
head injury. Gagne, who played in the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in three years, took
Brad Richardson's spot in the lineup. In
2010, Gagne, along with current Kings teammates Mike Richards and Jeff Carter, were members of the
Philadelphia Flyers that lost to the
Chicago Blackhawks in six games. With the win, the Kings became the first team in NHL history to take a 3–0 series lead in all four rounds of the playoffs.
Game four New Jersey avoided being swept for the first time in team history when
Adam Henrique scored at 15:29 of the third period to break a 1–1 tie, and
Ilya Kovalchuk added an empty-netter with 19.1 seconds left, defeating the Kings 3–1, and forcing a fifth game. This marked the third time in this playoffs that the Kings failed to close out a series in game four after winning the first three games. The game remained scoreless until 7:56 of the third period when
Patrik Elias shot a rebound into the Los Angeles net, giving New Jersey their first lead of the series. This lead was cut short a minute later, as
David Clarkson was called for boarding at 8:52, and four seconds later
Drew Doughty tied the game with a power play goal for the Kings. With the loss, the Kings failed to match the record set by the
Edmonton Oilers, who was the last team to lose only two games in their
1988 championship run with at least 16 required games played in a four-round format.
Game five The Devils gave the Kings their only playoff road loss with a 2–1 victory, ending their 10-game road-winning streak, and became the first club since the
Detroit Red Wings in to come back from a 3–0 deficit in the Cup Final to force a game six. New Jersey scored first at 12:45 of the first period, their first power play goal of the series, after Jonathan Quick misplayed the puck and
Zach Parise found an open net on the other side before the Los Angeles goalie could recover. The Kings tied the game at 3:26 of the second when
Justin Williams took a pass from
Matt Greene, skated into the New Jersey zone and beat Martin Brodeur. But the Devils took the lead for good at 9:05 of the second when
Bryce Salvador's shot deflected off of Kings defenceman
Slava Voynov into the Los Angeles net.
Jarret Stoll's goal at 11:16 of the second period, which would have tied the game, was waved off because he shot it with a high-stick. The Devils later held on for the final minute of the game on a 4-on-4 and the Kings pulling their goalie for the extra attacker on what became essentially a 5-on-4 advantage.
Game six The Kings defeated the Devils 6–1 to win their first Stanley Cup in team history. This was the most lopsided Cup-clinching game since , when the
Pittsburgh Penguins won Game 6 by beating the
Minnesota North Stars 8–0. At 10:10 of the first period, New Jersey's
Steve Bernier was assessed a major boarding penalty and a game misconduct on a hit to Los Angeles'
Rob Scuderi. The Kings then put the game out of reach by scoring three goals on the ensuing five-minute power play (when a major penalty is assessed, the full five-minute penalty must be served)—the first by
Dustin Brown, the second by
Jeff Carter, and the third by
Trevor Lewis. Carter then beat Martin Brodeur to score his second goal of the game at 1:50 of the second period after
Anton Volchenkov collided with a linesman while trying to defend Brown, who was carrying the puck into the New Jersey Zone. Unimpeded after Volchenkov was screened from the play, Brown easily got the pass off to Carter.
Adam Henrique got the Devils' lone goal at 18:45 of the second period after getting the rebound off of a shot by
Petr Sykora. Lewis added an empty net goal at 16:15 of the third period after Brodeur was pulled for an extra attacker. With Brodeur back in the net,
Matt Greene scored the Kings' sixth goal of the game 15 seconds later. Regarding Bernier's game-changing penalty, Rich Chere of
The Star-Ledger wrote that it was "the most devastating call in the Stanley Cup Final since the illegal curve on
Marty McSorley's stick in ". Several Devils fans and other observers believed that there was inconsistency with the officials' calls, and that they missed a couple of calls on the Kings at the time of that hit, such as one
Jarret Stoll made on the Devils'
Stephen Gionta. With the win, the Kings became only the second California-based NHL team to win the Stanley Cup, following the
Anaheim Ducks, who beat Ottawa in , the 12th expansion team to win it, and the second-to-last of the surviving 1967 expansion teams to do so (in 2019, the
St. Louis Blues became the last remaining franchise from the 1967 expansion to win the Cup). The Kings also became the first eighth-seeded team in North American sports history to win a championship in the four major North American sports leagues. ==Notes==