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Nothing the Kings do in the NHL playoffs should surprise you one bit.
Except for the part where defenseman Matt Greene was lumbering (his words) down the ice after Dustin Brown had grabbed a loose puck.
Greene trailed and was right there for the rebound off Brown's miss. He scored his first career playoff goal in short-handed fashion, marking just the second time in Kings history a defenseman scored a short-handed playoff goal.
"Those were long odds in Vegas for sure," Kings winger Dustin Penner said of Greene's goal.
Greene knows his role, but he saw an opening and it paid off early in the third period of the Kings' 3-1 victory over the Blues on Saturday in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals in front of a sellout crowd of 19,391 at...
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