Kings beat Blackhawks 2014 NHL playoffs

When Darryl Sutter doesn’t say a lot during a game break, the Los Angeles Kings are not particularly unnerved. By now, they well know that their coach is a man of few syllables, and deliberate ones at that. It’s when Sutter says nearly nothing that they know that things are reallybad. When he glares around the room and mumbles only brief non-sequitirs, often about someone on the other side being the greatest player in the world, that is the nearly silent alarm, the cue for the Kings to fill in the blanks and get going.

“When Darryl doesn’t come in and say too much, that means he’s mad at us,” defenseman Drew Doughty said. “And we need to do something about it.”

So it was during the second intermission of Game 2 at the United Center on Wednesday that the Kings decided to have a say in how their Western Conference Final series would go. For nearly five full periods, the Chicago Blackhawks had been able to do whatever they needed in order to set the tone. So after a silent treatment by their coach, the Kings, trailing 1-0 in the series and 2-1 in the game, discussed the statement they could make. The result was five third-period goals that tied a franchise postseason record and resulted in a 6-2 win that evened the series and recalibrated how this club from Los Angeles views itself.

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