The Blues and Bruins just completed their warmups and now this place is going absolutely nuts.
It's incredible when you think about the journey each team took to get to this moment. The Bruins played preseason games in China in September, played in the Winter Classic at Notre Dame Stadium on New Year's Day, survived a seven-game series in the first round against the Toronto Maple Leafs and trailed the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 in the second round.
The Blues, as we all know by now, were last in the League standings on Jan. 3, and thanks to an 11-game winning streak, finished third in the Central Division to make the playoffs. They then defeated the Winnipeg Jets, who finished second in the Central, in the first round, and then the Dallas Stars, needing overtime in Game 7 to do so in the second round. After losing Game 3 of the Western Conference Final to the Sharks in OT, they rallied to win that series and get to a seventh game of the Cup Final. All this with a goalie who started his first NHL game on Jan. 7 in Philadelphia, where the legend of "Gloria" began.
We have another celebrity sighting. NHL.com senior writer Dan Rosen reports seeing former NBA star and big hockey fan Charles Barkley outside the arena.