" ...the NHL ... called its title series the Final since 1918.

"The Stanley Cup Final is the ultimate series that will crown our champion," Frank Brown, the NHL's group vice president of content integration, said via email. "It is a singular event, comprised of a series of individual games. While up to seven games may be played, each game is an individual piece; together, the individual games comprise the Final just as multiple slices comprise a pie.

"The individual games are part of the Final but each is not a Final of itself —- which is what each game would have to be for the plural ('finals') to be used in reference to a multiple number of those games."