Red Light newsletter 🏒 | This is The Athletic’s hockey newsletter. Sign up here to receive Red Light directly in your inbox.Good morning to everyone except NFL GMs pulling off monster blockbuster trades and making hockey fans feel bad. You guys wouldn’t be able to make these wild trades if your league had a salary cap! … *Checks notes* … Ah, well, nevertheless.On to the hockey.Stanley Cup Final♞🌪️ Who ya got?The wait is over, and the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes starts tonight (schedule here). There are a ton of ways to size this one up, so let’s get to it:🔭 The essentials:
Dom Luszczyszyn, Shayna Goldman and Other Sean (Gentille) crunch the numbers in their full series rundown. The numbers have Carolina as a slight favorite.
Dom also breaks down the Conn Smythe Trophy race, which you may be surprised to learn features more names than just Mitch Marner.
Not sure who to root for? I’ve got you covered.
Pierre LeBrun has his annual poll of coaches and front office execs, talking with 49 in all. They like the Golden Knights (barely).