You can't single out one thing to be proud of.

I'm proud of the collaboration that everybody in the hockey community participated in.

And again, we still have a little ways to go.

This was in the consummate team sport, the consummate team effort.

That was NHL Commissioner Gary Bedman, speaking about something that seemed very much in doubt just months ago, dropping the puck on the Stanley Cup final.

But this year will look very different.

And whether it's the Dallas Stars or the Tampa Bay Lightning ultimately celebrating,

they'll be doing it thousands of miles from home in Edmonton, Canada.

Today, ESPN's Emily Kaplan is one of the few Americans who got across the border to cover the final,

and she explains what life is like inside the NHL bubble.

And who will be hoisting Lord Stanley's Cup?

I'm Pablo Torre.

It's Wednesday, September 23rd.

This is ESPN Day.

Emily Kaplan, I want to get one fact that I heard fact checked with you.

You are one of three American media members in Edmonton right now for the Stanley Cup finals.

That is correct. It is me, Stephen Wino from the Associated Press, and a man named Dennis

Bernstein who works for an outlet called The Fourth Period. But we are the only brave souls

and only outlets who put us through 14-day quarantines to get here.

Emily Kaplan covers hockey for ESPN, and she co-hosts the ESPN on Ice podcast.

So we are two games into the Stanley Cup finals between the Dallas Stars and the Tampa Bay Lightning,

and it's tied up one apiece, and we'll get to all of that later.

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