Again, to be clear, no one - including me - is disputing that the Kings were underdogs according to the mainstream hockey media and Vegas . That’s not being debated. However, according to all the important underlying statistics, the Kings *should* have been the favorites. They were superior in almost every way to the Canucks leading up to that series, and we had a small group of Cassandras shouting it from the mountaintops at the time to little avail. That’s the point.
The 2012 Kings were not some plucky underdog story. That team was a sleeping giant that started to stir after Sutter was hired, and woke up entire when Carter joined the team. Every measurable statistic of hockey supports that.
And by the way, these last few pages of certain posters denigrating the 2012 Kings in an effort to prop up the Rob Blake era has to be one of the most delusional Stockholm syndrome self-gaslighting galaxy brain takes I’ve ever seen on this forum. The inability to acknowledge the faults in the present necessitates a rewrite of the past. Incredible. Human psychology at work, ladies and gentlemen.