We’re down to the final four. The NHL Conference Finals in the Stanley Cup Playoffs kick off Wednesday night with the Panthers and Rangers facing off in the East, while the Oilers and Stars will begin to settle the West on Thursday night.
Each of the remaining teams deserves to be here, that goes without saying — and when the dust settles one of these organizations will be hoisting the Lord Stanley’s Cup. Reaching this point is unlike anything else in professional sports. The NHL is a brutal combination of the NBA’s seven game series tenacity, paired with the NFL’s brutality — and it takes a special kind
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