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Conn Smythe Trophy power rankings: Why isn't Vasilevskiy the favourite?

It's here, and it's perfect.

The 2022 Stanley Cup Final is set with the Colorado Avalanche and the Tampa Bay Lightning meeting in a championship series that seems seasons in the making. These are two of the highest-scoring, most transcendent, and successful teams over the past five seasons, who many fans and pundits have had earmarked for a dream Stanley Cup Final.

Tampa Bay has obviously held up its end of the bargain as two-time defending champions, and has held on long enough for the Avalanche to have finally broken through after several seasons of postseason disappointment.