The NHL Stanley Cup Finals will see the valiant Washington Capitals and the new-to-the-block Las Vegas Golden Knights compete in a seven-game series to see who will take home the trophy.

Everyone knows about the DC sports curse that has loomed over all of our  sports teams for years, but this year the Capitals are finally beginning to break the curse. The Caps vanquished their nemesis, the Pittsburgh Penguins, to advance to the Eastern Conference Final for the first time in 20 years! The Caps fought the Tampa Bay Lightning all the way to game 7 of the series and finished them off by winning 4-0 to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals. If you follow hockey, you know the Caps are always one of the strongest teams during the regular season in the NHL—but for some reason, they never quite make it in the past the second round of the playoffs. For the first time in 20 years, the Capitals have a chance at defying this expectation. Alex Ovechkin is one of the best players the NHL has ever seen and has played for the Capitals since 2005, and although he is certainly destined for the hall of fame,, he has never skated on the ice of a Stanley Cup final. If anyone is gunning for a win, it’s him. Let’s go Capitals!

On the other side of the competition, the Vegas Golden Knights are no slouch. They won first place of the Pacific Division of the NHL with 51 wins and 24 losses, not to mention they have only lost three games in the first three rounds. The extraordinary thing about this team is that it’s their first year in the league, and their general manager, George McPhee, was a long time manager of the Caps themselves. Rumors in the NHL about a Las Vegas expansion team began in August 2014, and in 2016 the league owners unanimously voted to start the team for the 2017-2018 season. The Knights started drafting available players from all 30 teams in the NHL in summer of 2017. Every team had to decide which players they wanted to protect from the draft. Most teams left unprotected older players with large contracts. Vegas went after these players with hopes to trade them before the deadline. Much to the surprise of the Knights, these players gelled together and ended up a Stanley Cup contender. Now here they are in the Finals attempting to do what no other expansion team has done before.

The Stanley Cup Finals series begins on May 28th at 8 pm on NBC. Which team will you be cheering on?