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Sentimental choice Robyn Regehr is second to hoist the Stanley Cup

Kings defenseman Robyn Regehr, who did not play in the Stanley Cup Final because of injury, was the second player to skate with the Cup when captain Dustin Brown handed it off.
(Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
By Mike Bresnahan
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He didn’t play one minute of time in the Stanley Cup Final, but defenseman Robyn Regehr was the second Kings player to hoist the Cup after their Game 5 victory.

Why?

Two reasons: Fourteen long years in the NHL, followed by a frustrating knee injury incurred in the first game of the second round against the Ducks.

He was thrilled when Kings captain Dustin Brown handed him the Stanley Cup after taking a brief skate with it.

“It was amazing,” said Regehr, 34. “I thought maybe he wanted to give it to Marian [Gaborik] first, but I guess they thought I was older than him so I had a little more seniority.”

Gaborik, 32, won his first Cup in his 13th NHL season.

No range

Two of the Rangers’ biggest scorers in the playoffs were stunningly silent in the series.

Rick Nash, their high-powered forward, had no goals and no assists against the Kings.

Alternate captain Brad Richards, owner of five goals and six assists in the first three rounds, had one assist against the Kings and was minus-four in goals differential.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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