New York vs Los Angeles

The NY Rangers will battle the Los Angeles Kings for the Stanley Cup.

This will be the eighth time that teams from New York and Los Angeles are meeting for a major North American sports league championship.

Four previous championship rounds were in baseball, the World Series. Additionally there were NBA finals contested between teams form the two cities three times in four seasons from (1970-1973.)

The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees have split four World Series battles. The Dodgers won in four straight games in 1963 and in six games in 1981. The Yankees’ back to back World Series wins were both vs the Dodgers in 1977 and 1978.

Though the Los Angeles Lakers have won 11 NBA titles while in Los Angeles and the New York Knicks have two, it is the Knicks who won two of three NBA finals vs the Lakers.

In 1970 the Knicks won in seven games while the teams each won in five vs the other. In 1972, the Lakers lost the first game and won the next four while in 1973 the Knicks did the same.