Oilers back on home ice for Game 5 with Stanley Cup final tied 2-2

Kevin Maimann · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 14, 2025 4:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

The Edmonton Oilers are backmost connected location crystal Saturday for a captious crippled successful their Stanley Cup last bid against the Florida Panthers, with the teams tied astatine 2 games apiece.

The Oilers evened the bid connected Thursday with an overtime extremity by Leon Draisaitl — his record-setting 4th OT marker of this year's NHL playoffs — capping disconnected a chaotic crippled that saw Edmonton flooded a 3-0 deficit.

Calvin Pickard will commencement successful extremity for the Oilers connected Saturday aft coming successful for the 2nd play of Game 4 and making 23 saves, including respective show-stoppers.

WATCH | Oilers fans hole for Game 5 successful Edmonton:

Stuart Skinner was pulled aft letting successful 3 goals connected 17 shots, but besides making immoderate cardinal saves, successful a archetypal play dominated by the Panthers.

The Oilers past scored 4 straight, earlier Florida's Sam Reinhart fired backmost with 19 seconds near successful the 3rd to nonstop the crippled into overtime.

Game 4 was the 3rd of the bid to spell to an other period, with the 2 teams looking evenly matched isolated from the Panthers' 6-1 Game 3 blowout. 

Edmonton is hoping for much heroics from Pickard, who stepped up successful the archetypal circular to regenerate Skinner with his squad down 2 games to nary against the Los Angeles Kings.

He went connected to triumph six consecutive games earlier getting injured successful Round 2 against the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

The victor of Saturday's crippled volition conscionable request 1 much victory to seizure the Stanley Cup. Game sum starts astatine 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. MT connected CBC.