Staal’s Cup Final Tear Has Old-School Scorers Reaching for History

Staal is scoring at a pace the Stanley Cup Final has barely seen in decades, and that alone puts this run in rare company. The kind of production he is piling up usually belongs in the history books, not in a series this modern and this punishing. That is the part that gets front offices and old-timers nodding at the same time, because playoff scoring like this does not happen by accident. The chase now is whether the rest of the Final can keep up with him.