2012 Stanley Cup Finals - Kings" Defense Continues to Frustrate Devils Mark Terrill/Associated Press New Jersey Devils center Jacob Josefson reached to control the puck in a scoreless Game 3 against the Kings. EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Coming back from three games down to win the Stanley Cup is not as rare as the Transit of Venus phenomenon, but it will be quite a challenge for the Devils to overtake the Kings, starting Wednesday in Los Angeles. "We're in a tough spot," Zach Parise said of the Devils" predicament. It'll be very hard, but we'll try our best. He then boarded the team bus at the practice rink here Tuesday, a few minutes before Venus began to cross the face of the sun for the last time until 2117. The only time a team has rallied from 0-3 down to win the Stanley Cup was in 1942, when Toronto overtook Detroit. But the Devils will not be staging a comeback unless they can solve Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick. "Quick's playing very well," Coach Peter DeBoer said. We're creating as many chances this round as we had against the Rangers the prior round. We're not finishing. The Devils have scored two goals. That is not a playoff series futility record - Minnesota scored once while being swept by Anaheim in the 2003 Western Conference finals - but they are on pace to tie a dubious record. In 1952 the Montreal Canadiens scored twice in the finals while being swept by the Red Wings. Only Anton Volchenkov, who was credited with a goal after the puck bounced in off a Kings defenseman, and Ryan Carter on a tip-in have put the puck past Quick. Parise, Ilya Kovalchuk and the rest of the Devils" snipers have been blanked. The Kings blanketed Kovalchuk so closely in their 4-0 victory in Game 3 on Monday that there was speculation he had an injured back. Although he did spend a long time in the trainers" room after the game, Kovalchuk denied that he was injured. On Tuesday, he looked fine taking one-timers in practice. "You get this deep in the playoffs, everybody's playing hurt," DeBoer said. You guys want somebody to blame for the situation we're in. It's not like that, you know. We're working hard. We're doing a lot of good things. Hasn't gone our way yet. The Devils" task seems almost insurmountable. Los Angeles has allowed 24 goals in 17 playoff games. Quick's 1.36 goals-against average is the best mark since Frank Brimsek's 1.25 for Boston in the 1939 playoffs. Quick has a .950 playoff save percentage, on pace for an N.H.L. record. To score two goals on a goalie with a .950 save percentage, the Devils would have to put 40 shots on net. The Devils have never been swept in a playoff series, but that is what goalie Martin Brodeur, 40, will face in what could be his last game. He said that if the Devils do not come back, it will have no bearing on whether he retires. "I'm enjoying this, because I know it could be the last time," Brodeur said. Regardless of the position we're in, it's not going to take away the fun that I have being here. I'm fortunate to have a chance late in my career like this. You're not going to win them all, though. But we're still alive.