NBA and NHL title guides and predictions, Pulse-style

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Carry your own bag today. Tonight, a high-stakes stretch begins on our televisions. The puck drops in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final at 8 p.m. ET, and we embark on what could be a three-week run of alternating title-series games between the NBA (which starts tomorrow) and NHL.  From the surface, these look like interminably different series: on one side, a rematch of last year’s championship series; on the other, two franchises who...