The Bruins are clearly the better team on paper, but an 11-day layoff is no joke. They had the longest layoff of any Stanley Cup team ever, and the two closest teams in terms of a layoff both lost the Stanley Cup. With the speed that the Stanley Cup is played at I think it's unreasonable to expect the Bruins to get back into the flow immediately. In each playoff sweep this season, the team that did the sweeping lost the first game of the next series. I like that trend to continue behind a stellar performance by Jordan Binnington and the Blues.