Welcome back for your Stanley Cup Monday edition of Links, News, and Notes. With the Tampa Bay Lightning and Colorado Avalanche having punched their tickets to the finals, the festivities will get underway on Tuesday night. It’s rarely the case that the two best teams make it to the championship round, but it would be hard to argue against this year’s finalists. It should be great.
- Ken Wiebe has a good piece at Sportsnet breaking down some of the critical match-ups that could determine the outcome of the series.