The Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins – who have won two of the past three championships – will compete for the Stanley Cup when the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Final gets under way Wednesday in the Windy City.

The participants of this year’s Final will be present at the annual Media Day on Tuesday at United Center, and NHL.com and NHL Network have you covered.

Throughout the Stanley Cup Final, NHL.com will stream NHL Network original programming in addition to delivering original content created by a team of reporters, writers and videographers. NHL.com will once again feature multiple camera choices for fans watching a live stream of NHL Tonight: 2013 Stanley Cup Final Media Day, allowing them to pick from four podiums at any given time to ensure being able to catch interviews with their favorite player or coach.

Robyn Regehr

Defense - LAK

GOALS: 0 | ASST: 1 | PTS: 1
SOG: 16 | +/-: -8

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Los Angeles Kings defenseman Robyn Regehr was scheduled for surgery Monday for a "bad arm," coach Darryl Sutter said.

Sutter didn't elaborate when he spoke to reporters on the final day of L.A.'s break-up meetings, but a Kings spokesperson confirmed Monday that Regehr was set to undergo elbow surgery. Los Angeles was eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night.

"He played with a bad arm the whole playoffs," Sutter said. "We're getting multiple guys looked at and he's first on the list."

Kings captain Dustin Brown said Monday he will not need surgery to repair a partially torn cruciate ligament in his knee, which he revealed after Game 5 of the Western Conference Final. Brown said it will take 4-6 weeks of rest and he will probably have to wear a brace.

Before forward Nazem Kadri became a key member of the Toronto Maple Leafs, he played for Dallas Eakins with the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. The relationship wasn't always a great one, but Kadri knows he's better for having had it.

"Dallas Eakins and me really beared down, and he stuck with me the whole way, and that's what you get -- results," Kadri told the Toronto Sun. "It may have taken a couple of years -- a long couple of years -- but it's worth it in the end."

It's those kinds of results that made Eakins so appealing to NHL teams, and why he was hired Monday as coach of the Edmonton Oilers.

Dallas Eakins played in parts of 10 NHL seasons for eight different teams.

Most of his stops amounted to brief cups of coffee, a handful of games here, a few more there. Then it was back down to the American Hockey League or the now defunct International Hockey League, where he played in nearly a dozen additional cities over the course of his career.

A defenseman, Eakins only dressed for 120 NHL games and probably watched hundreds more from press boxes around the League as a healthy scratch. All the while, though, a post-playing career was taking shape.

"I wasn't just sitting upstairs eating popcorn," Eakins said Monday. "I was taking notes."

Ultimately, it would lead to Eakins becoming an assistant coach -- first with the AHL's Toronto Marlies and then with their parent club, the Toronto Maple Leafs. Eakins returned to the Marlies as a head coach in 2009 and led the team to 157 wins in four seasons, as well as a trip to the 2012 Calder Cup Final.

On Monday, the 46-year-old Eakins found himself in the brightest spotlight of his NHL career, as he was named the new coach of the Edmonton Oilers. In accepting the job, he also fulfilled the prophecy of one of the League's great innovators and the coach Eakins credited as his greatest influence, the late Roger Neilson.

CHICAGO -- Andrew Shaw wears a black band on his right wrist, and that's as good a place as any to start a story about the undersized agitator who centers the Chicago Blackhawks' third line.

The white lettering stamped on it is a little faded, but Shaw wears it every day and it's symbolic of his hockey career. It says: "Ironworkers Local 721," and was given to him by a good friend in Toronto who is a member of that guild back when Shaw played for the Owen Sound Attack and won the 2010-11 Ontario Hockey League championship.

"I've just worn it ever since then," Shaw said Monday at United Center, two days before making a childhood dream come true by playing in the 2013 Stanley Cup Final against the Boston Bruins. "I just always wear it."

CHICAGO -- For most teams that win the Stanley Cup, there is a moment everyone remembers when it could have gone the other way.

When the Chicago Blackhawks won in 2010, they were trailing the Nashville Predators late in Game 5 of the opening round with Marian Hossa in the penalty box before tying the score in the final minute. For the Boston Bruins the following year, they needed overtime in Game 7 against the Montreal Canadiens.

Sometimes a Cup run can't be fully realized until there is a galvanizing event, a turning point where everything begins to click.

Should the Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins in the 2013 Stanley Cup Final and capture a second championship in four seasons, that point will be remembered as the time between Games 4 and 5 in the Western Conference Semifinals.

BOSTON -- It started the way most storms do, with a couple faint drops that hint at an upcoming downpour.

Defenseman Wade Redden scored the Boston Bruins' first goal of the Stanley Cup Playoffs late in the first period of Game 1 of the club's Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Johnny Boychuk

Defense - BOS

GOALS: 5 | ASST: 1 | PTS: 6
SOG: 46 | +/-: 3

Torey Krug, just up from Providence of the American Hockey League, scored four goals as the Bruins eliminated the Rangers in five games. The deluge kept on coming during the Eastern Conference Final, capped by McQuaid scoring the only goal in the Bruins' sweep-clinching win.

The Nashville Predators won't have to worry about defenseman Roman Josi testing the free-agent waters anytime soon.

The team announced Monday it had signed the emerging young talent to a seven-year, $28 million contract.

After losing Ryan Suter to the Minnesota Wild in the summer of 2012 and having to match an offer sheet by the Philadelphia Flyers to retain Shea Weber, Predators general manager David Poile said he is relieved to have Josi in the fold long-term.

Josi, 23, could have become a restricted free agent this summer.

"Re-signing Roman was a top priority as we look to regroup heading into the 2013-14 season," Poile said. "Roman has proven, with his growth and success here in Nashville and on the international stage, that he is one of the best young defensemen in the NHL. Roman's skating ability and instincts have allowed him to play in all key situations. With today's signing, we have our top defensive pairing locked up long-term, and we look forward to Roman's continued development and contribution to the Predators' on-ice success."

The Anaheim Ducks on Monday named longtime NHL goaltender Dwayne Roloson as their new goaltending consultant.

Roloson replaces Pete Peeters, who announced his retirement last week.

The 43-year-old Roloson played in the League through the 2011-12 season, finishing his career with the Tampa Bay Lightning. He also was a member of the Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres, Minnesota Wild, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders.

NEW YORK -- NHL Network™, NHL.com and NHL Social will be front and center throughout the 2013 Stanley Cup® Final between the Western Conference champion Chicago Blackhawks and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Bruins, reporting on every angle and providing fans with the most comprehensive coverage of the NHL's ultimate event.

NHL Network

NHL Network will begin its Stanley Cup Final coverage live from the Western Conference champion's home on Tuesday, June 11, at 1 p.m., ET, with three hours of exclusive programming from the League's annual "Media Day" -- a gathering of every player, coach and GM participating in the Final. For fans who aren't able to watch the coverage live, NHL Network will air a recap show at 7 p.m. ET delivering all of the highlights from the day's event.