Game 5 Set The Standard In The Stanley Cup Final

Game 5 looked like the kind of performance that makes coaches smile and opponents start grading their own tape a little too harshly. Daily Faceoff frames it as the most complete effort of the Final, which is the sort of label teams do not hand out unless every line, pairing, and goalie shift is doing its job. In a series where one swing can rewrite the whole script, that kind of all-systems-night can change the temperature of everything that follows.