LOS ANGELES â€" Dustin Brown scored twice, Jonathan Quick made 23 saves and the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Kings finished an improbable four-game sweep of the St. Louis Blues with a 3-1 victory Sunday, advancing to the conference finals for the second time in franchise history.
"I can only imagine how happy Kings fans are right now," Brown said.
Rookie Jordan Nolan scored an early goal for the Kings, the first No. 8 seed in league history to eliminate their conference's top two seeds in the same postseason. After ousting top-seeded Vancouver and second-seeded St. Louis with eight victories in nine games, the Kings will face the Phoenix-Nashville winner in the best-of-seven Western Conference final series.
Phoenix leads Nashville 3-1 in their series.
The Kings made their only previous trip to the conference finals in 1993, when Wayne Gretzky and Luc Robitaille propelled them past Toronto and into their only Stanley Cup Final, where they lost to Montreal in a 4-1 series.
The Kings won one playoff series in the ensuing seasons before eliminating Vancouver last month.
Devils triumph
NEWARK, N.J. â€" Dainius Zubrus scored two goals and New Jersey rallied from an early two-goal deficit and pushed the Philadelphia Flyers to the brink of elimination with a 4-2 victory in Game 4 of their best-of-seven East semifinal series.
The Devils lead the series 3-1. The Flyers host Game 5 Tuesday.
New Jersey outshot Philadelphia 43-22.
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