NHL Finals brings together Florida and Las Vegas, two teams whose very arrival at the status would have seemed like an end-times vision a few years ago. Ariel Bolstein on tradition, money and everything in between.

There's no telling how the NHL Finals, the best hockey league in the world, will unfold and end, but the winner is guaranteed to make history.Neither team has ever won a premiership, so for one of them it will be the first Stanley Cup in their history. The traditional affinity between this sport and cold places has become obsolete, and there is really no more in it.