The Penguins will have had three days between games, the Predators a full week.
The Penguins will be without their top defenseman, Kris Letang, the Predators without their top center, Ryan Johansen.
Advantage?
Neither, really. Not on those two counts.
At the Stanley Cup Final media day Sunday at PPG Paints Arena, on the eve of Game 1, I asked a handful of players on the home team about losing out on a couple extra days of rest by allowing the Senators to stretch the Eastern Conference final to seven, and their responses were both predictable and on point:
Gary Bettman admitted a mistake
not
Filip Forsberg
Colton Scissons
Jake Guentzel
won't
Harry Zolnierczyk
Pekka Rinne's
Braden Holtby
Juuse Saros
Matt Murray
John Gibson
Jonathan Bernier
Mike Sullivan
Claude Giroux
Prediction:
Conn Smythe:
MATT GAJTKA
Prediction:
Conn Smythe:
P.K. Subban
JOSH YOHE
Roman Josi
Prediction:
Conn Smythe:
MATT SUNDAY
Ryan Getzlaf
Mike Fisher
's
DK
Mario Lemieux
thiiissss
Prediction:
Conn Smythe:
MATT SUNDAY GALLERY
Stanley Cup Final media day, PPG Paints Arena, May 28, 2017. - MATT SUNDAY / DKPS
