Kings go for sweep of Devils and first Cup

Kings go for sweep of Devils and first Cup

replica louis vuitton sale LOS ANGELES -- People crammed into Staples Center and the restaurants of L.A. Live across Chick Hearn Way for a celebration Wednesday night, and it is up to the Los Angeles Kings to ensure the Stanley Cup is part of the gala.The Kings are trying to complete a remarkable run through the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs and capture the first championship in their 45-year history with a victory in Game 4 of the Cup Final, but the New Jersey Devils are determined to crash the party and push the series back home to Prudential Center on Saturday night.Of the previous 25 teams to fall behind 3-0 in a Cup Final, only five have succeeding in avoiding a sweep. The Devils made a pair of lineup changes in search of a spark after scoring just two goals in the first three games, including none in this building Monday night in Game 3, a 4-0 loss.Veteran defenseman Henrik Tallinder and forward Petr Sykora drew into the lineup in place of young Peter Harrold and Jacob Josefson. Tallinder hasn't played since Jan. 17 because of a blood clot in his leg, but he's been practicing with the team of late and coach Peter DeBoer had a change of heart Tuesday night and decided to put him back in the lineup.

replica louis vuitton handbags Sykora has been a healthy scratch since Game 3 of the conference finals against the rival New York Rangers. He had 21 goals in the regular season and has two in 15 postseason contests.There were no lineup changes for the Kings, as coach Darryl Sutter stuck with Simon Gagne for a second straight game; before Monday, he hadn't played since late December because of a concussion.SYDNEY, June 7 (Reuters) - The euro hovered near two-week highs against the greenback early in Asia on Thursday, while the Australian dollar rose towards parity as hopes grew that Europe was moving closer to helping rescue Spain's stricken banks.Speculation of more stimulus from the U.S. central bank also helped bolster risk appetite. A top Fed official said a softening U.S. economy is getting close to a point where he would call for more stimulus action from the Fed to revive growth.As a result, both the safe-haven U.S. dollar and yen fell sharply. The dollar dropped to its lowest since late May against a basket of major currencies. That saw the euro climb as high as $1.2585 overnight.

replica louis vuitton men bags The single currency last stood at $1.2568, with immediate resistance around $1.2600, followed by $1.2671, a level representing the 38.2 percent retracement of its May 1-June 1 fall.Also helping sentiment, European Central Bank Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny told Austrian television any Spanish request to tap European bailout funds would be a "reasonable option" that could help restore trust in the country's banking sector.Still, analysts warned that markets will remain choppy, with risk assets vulnerable to further falls."Market expectations for a new wave of quantitative easing in the major developed market economies have increased, but this might not tackle the cause of the current challenges or, indeed, allay market anxieties related to banking and sovereign solvency," said Koon Chow, strategist at Barclays Capital."Until these problems are tackled head on, it will be hard for emerging market assets to rally independently."In the short-term, traders said further gains in the euro will depend on Spain's bond auction due later in the day. The sale of up to 2 billion euros of bonds is seen as a crucial test of Madrid's ability to tap the bond market.

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