The stage is set for the Stanley Cup Final, where the Carolina Hurricanes and Vegas Golden Knights will face off for the Cup.The best player from one of those teams will hoist the Conn Smythe trophy, awarded to the playoffs’ most valuable player.Before the final series begins, here are the players leading the way for their respective teams.Carolina HurricanesStanley Cup chances: 56 percentFrederik AndersenGSAx: 12.5After a middling regular season, Steady Freddie has summoned his vintage level of excellence when it matters most without faltering. He’s been everything Carolina has needed him to be and then some, with astonishingly great numbers through three rounds. Over 13 games, Andersen has saved 12.5 goals above expected, the best per-game rate of any goalie to make it past the first round. Only Jakub Dobeš, who benefited from playing against the Hurricanes’ firing squad, has a higher GSAx during the postseason. The next closest goalies — Dan Vladar and Linus Ullmark at roughly 6.5 GSAx — also had the same benefit. The next closest goalie after that is Vegas goalie Carter Hart, who is 9.5 goals back of Andersen. Carolina’s starter entered the playoffs with massive questions, but he’s been seriously special with a playoff-leading .931 save percentage.K’Andre MillerNet Rating: 5.9When The Great One praises a player, you listen.“Defensively, K’Andre Miller is playing as well as I’ve ever seen a defenseman play in the Stanley Cup Playoffs,” Wayne Gretzky said during a TNT postgame show during the conference finals. “He is just solid offensively, but defensively, nobody can get around him. He’s like a brick wall.”The numbers bear that out: Miller’s plus-5.9 Net Rating leads all players this postseason and is a full goal higher than teammate Taylor Hall.Miller is averaging nearly 24 minutes per night to lead the Hurricanes, has eight assists in 13 games and has been a dominant force at five-on-five. His 64 percent expected goals rate ranks third among defensemen, and the Hurricanes have outscored opponents 16-3 with him on the ice this season, a truly preposterous rate.