How the Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights made it to the Stanley Cup Final

We've been doing post-mortems of every matchup, after each round, throughout the entire postseason here. It's been a pretty useful exercise, because by highlighting how the winning sides came out on top, not only are we recapping what happened, but we're also preparing for what's next on the schedule as well. 

So let's do it one final time here in anticipation of Saturday night's puck drop for Game 1 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final by taking a closer look at how Vegas and Florida got to this point. The end results (a sweep out East, and a 6-0 Game Six walloping in the West) weren't necessarily indicative of how close and hard fought both series were throughout. 

But in the end, the Golden Knights and Panthers each showed why they're worthy representatives for their respective conferences on th