Stanley Cup 2012: Nothing Is Stopping Jonathan Quick and Kings in Quest for Cup

No team has dominated in the NHL postseason the way the Los Angeles Kings have. They've gone 12-2 in their quest for the Stanley Cup, despite being a lowly No. 8 seed, and there's been one big reason for their unparalleled stretch of dominance: Jonathan Quick.

The Kings goaltender has posted a 1.54 goals-against average and a .946 save percentage throughout LA's surprising postseason run, and he now faces his toughest adversary yet in Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils.

Though Brodeur certainly has a history of greatness on his side as the winner of three Stanley Cups, he'll be playing in his 19th postseason game on Wednesday while Quick and the Kings have had the luxury of a week off. Of course, that could backfire and leave LA out of sync and rusty, but look at the history this postseason. Has it happened yet?

The Kings have slaughtered the Vancouver Canucks, the St. Louis Blues and the Phoenix Coyotes in succession this spring and have had no trouble getting back into game form after each of those series. There's no reason to think it will be any different this time, future Hall of Famer in the opposite net or not.

As Kings goalie coach Bill Ranford told ESPN.com's Dan Arritt: 

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Our guys know how to handle it and that’s a positive thing. If you go two long series and then, all of a sudden, you get a long delay and you haven’t had it happen to you before, you may not know how to react to it, but we’ve gone through it twice. 

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And it's not as though Quick's dominance in the playoffs has come out of nowhere. His regular season stats weren't too shabby: He had a league-leading 1.95 GAA and a third-best .929 save percentage.

If anyone will have trouble getting into a rhythm in this series, it will be Brodeur, who has played in 18 games in the last seven weeks. He may have years of experience over the 26-year-old Quick, who had never made it out of the first round of the postseason before this year, but there is nobody playing better than Quick right now.

There's very little that can stop a hot goaltender in the playoffs. Look at Tim Thomas last season.

Brodeur has been good—and there's no question that he's historically one of the best goaltenders in the NHL—but he hasn't been dominant this postseason, and that's all that matters right now. The Kings, not the Devils, have the most lethal weapons heading into this battle for the Stanley Cup.

Three teams this postseason have already fallen victim to the hottest goalie in the NHL. The Devils—who barely made it out of the first round and are coming off an emotionally-draining series against the New York Rangers—will only be the latest to suffer the same fate as those who have come before.