When the season began, the Las Vegas Golden Knights entered with 500-1 odds of winning it all. These extreme odds were understandable as the franchise was entering its inaugural season.

Before the team even played their first game, they were forced to overcome  naysayers and doubters, who shouted that Las Vegas would not be able to support a professional hockey team, how their logo was a rip-off of Army’s, and how the NHL was making a colossal mistake by creating an expansion team at a time where the sport of hockey is slipping in popularity among US viewers.

However, Vegas head coach Gerard Gallant blocked all the noise and rallied his team to a run that has no true comparison in professional sports history. For the Knights to play in the Stanley Cup Final in their first season is something the sports world will never forget. And if they win it all?  A championship would be nothing short of legendary.

However, standing in their way is a team trying to rewrite their own history: The Washington Capitals. The Caps are a franchise, and fanbase, that has been slapped in the face many times in agonizing playoff defeats at the hands of the New York Rangers, the Tampa Bay Lighting, and public enemy #1 in the District: The Pittsburgh Penguins. Year after year after year, the Caps suffer not just tough losses, but epic failures. However this year is different. The Capitals exorcised their demons and went on a run that their fans and the entire area has been waiting for since 1998, where they were on the receiving end of a clean sweep by a powerhouse Detroit Red Wing squad.  This year though, the Caps are poised to hoist their first Cup. After knocking off Pittsburgh with Evgeny Kuznetsov’s heart-pounding overtime winner in Game 6, the Caps overcame the Lighting in a back and forth series that saw a strong performance by Washington in both games 6 and 7 to win the Eastern Conference, and punch their ticket to the Stanley Cup final.