NEW YORK The puck just sat there.Twice, actually. Two times on Wednesday night, the Kings came within a few inches of tying their ultimately failed attempt at a Madison Square Garden victory lap. They did not.MORE: | Instead, the pucks just sat there on the line behind Henrik Lundqvist, stuck in time and snow and terrible, terrible luck.Kings defenseman Drew Doughty called those non-goals the difference in the game, and he's right. Rangers coach Alain Vigneault called the game the Kings' best of the series, and he's right. Los Angeles outshot New York, 41-19, and 27-6 after the Rangers scored their second goal."I've Jeremy Shockey Jersey been in the game a long time to know that sometimes the hockey gods are there," Vigneault said. "They were there tonight."The goalie wasn't as theistic, but he made the same point."Tonight, we had the bounces," Lundqvist said. "We talked about it the first couple games where, you know, especially against this team, you need that little extra puck luck."Sometimes it's going to hit you and sometimes it's not. You have to keep telling yourself you're doing the right things."There have been a million pieces written about bounces, and what they mean, and who deserves them. There will be a billion more. Hockey is chaotic by nature, and that allows for results that don't make sense or seem all that fair, and that's part of what we had here in Game 4.The Rangers were the ones who spent Tuesday answering questions about all the bounces that seemed to not go their way. There was a certain amount of recognizable logic in that; they lost twice in overtime and then to an otherworldly goalie, with a bad, game-turning call mixed in for good measure. It's what they needed to tell themselves, and that's A-OK.It was ultimately a misguided line of thinking, though, because the Kings have been a little bit Riley Dixon Jersey better (or more) in e sentially every facet of the series while dealing with their own runs of crap luck. And even then, if you were keeping a tally on Wednesday, you'd see a Dustin Brown breakaway goal that started with Dan Girardi's broken stick, as both Vigneault and Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman noted after the game.These things tend to even out, except for when they don't. And when that happens, stuff gets fun.Stralman was the first hero, sweeping the puck off the goal line after Jeff Carter took two failed cracks at it. He said it was lucky."All I tried to do basically was get the stick out, and obviously the puck as well," Stralman added.The bigger one, though, came with a little more than a minute left in regulation, when a bouncing puck slid through Lundqvist's five hole."I was yelling at the ref to blow the whistle. Then I realized it was behind me for a couple seconds," Lundqvist Dexter Lawrence Jersey said with a smile. "I actually apologized. But (official Wes McCauley) was cool about it."While McCauley was being cool, the snow that had accumulated behind Lundqvist a byproduct of his tendency to play deep in his net, he noted did its job. Derek Stepan took care of the rest, sweeping it out of the crease with the side of his glove."I knew that I couldn't put my hand on it," Stepan said. "(McCauley) was right there and he did a great job of being on top of it, being able to see it."So that's it. If the bounces weren't going New York's way before, that certainly Evan Engram Jersey changed for Game 4. Maybe that continues, maybe it doesn't. What's not in doubt, though, is Lundqvist. He was spectacular, and any luck-related discu sion should end with him."Don't fool yourself either, Hank stood on his head," Stepan said. "He made some big saves at big times for us. Those are the big plays that we need at certain moments to keep the momentum or shift the momentum. Hank stood tall and he's a big part of why we're going back to Jerrel Jernigan Jersey L.A."Also headed back to L.A.: The Kings' family and friends, who'd flown to the Garden in case there was something to celebrate Wednesday night. Instead, they were stuck in the media dining area. There was no champagne."If you clean up your own play," Kings captain Dustin Brown said, "you make your own bounces this time of year."Through it all, the Kings remain firmly in the driver's seat. One team in 72 years has blown a 3-0 lead in the Final, and there's not much beyond Jonathan Quick's inconsistent tendencies to suggest that we'll see a second over the next week or so.L.A. is too good to pick against three times out of three. At some point in the next 180 minutes of hockey, their sheer tonnage of chances is likely to win out. Eventually, pucks are going to slide acro s the line. Unle s they don't.