Full speed ahead to the Stanley Cup Final.
Seven weeks after the first game of the qualification round in the extended Stanley Cup playoffs and an unprecedented hockey summer amid a global pandemic, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars will collide in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday night.
It’s a matchup between two teams that have written vastly different stories on their paths to the league’s championship series, both in terms of their process as organizations and their progression through the NHL’s restart tournament.
Tampa Bay has been one of the most successful teams of the last decade, but don’t have a title to show for the fact that only one team has won more postseason games over that span.