Bruins vs. Blackhawks Stanley Cup Final Game 5 Preview: Best of three starts now

Just the Facts

Game Time: 8:00 PM, United Center, Chicago, IL. TV Broadcast: NBC, CBC, RDS. Radio Broadcast: 98.5 The Sports Hub.

Record: Boston 2, Chicago 2

The Other Side's SB Nation Site: Second City Hockey

Get Tickets here: Boston Bruins Tickets

Blackhawks projected lines

Sharp - Bolland - Hossa
Saad - Handzus - Kane
Bickell - Bollig - Shaw
Kruger - Toews - Frolik

Keith - Seabrook
Oduya - Hjalmarsson
Leddy - Roszival

Crawford

Bruins projected lines:

Lucic - Krejci - Horton
Marchand - Bergeron - Jagr
Paille - Kelly - Seguin
Daugavins - Peverley - Thornton

Chara - Seidenberg
Ference - Boychuk
Krug - McQuaid

Rask

Preview:

I am predicting that Kaspars Daugavins will be in. That is my official prediction and I am sticking to it.

What a gorgeous freaking day in Boston, eh? The statues are all decked out, tourists are out en masse, it's less than two weeks until the Fourth of July...and we still have at least two hockey games to look forward to. Amazing.

Hopefully you got outside and enjoyed the day a little. Tonight....tonight is going to be a showdow for the ages. Can Corey Crawford rectify his glove hand issues? Will Tyler Seguin or Jaromir Jagr finally break their scoring slumps? Can Zdeno Chara not be a -3 again, please?

We'll see soon enough.