Panthers visit the Oilers in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final with the series tied

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 14, 2025 12:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Leon Draisaitl scoring successful overtime to necktie the Stanley Cup last for the Edmonton Oilers ensured the bid against the Florida Panthers cannot beryllium decided successful Game 5 connected Saturday night.

Hockey's hallowed trophy volition not yet beryllium successful the building. But it is guaranteed to beryllium connected Tuesday nighttime backmost successful Sunrise, Florida, making Game 5 different pivotal plaything constituent successful the NHL's title bid rematch.

"The squad that tin determination connected fastest is going to beryllium person the champion chance," Panthers winger Matthew Tkachuk said.

"The squad that moves connected from this and squad that recovers the fastest is going to person the bigger advantage."

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The coaches involved, Florida's Paul Maurice and Edmonton's Kris Knoblauch, don't judge overmuch successful game-to-game momentum, and that mentation has played retired truthful far.

Draisaitl and Brad Marchand traded OT heroics successful the archetypal 2 games, the Panthers won the adjacent successful a rout, and took a three-goal pb successful Game 4 earlier the Oilers erased it and got different from Draisaitl to adjacent things up.

The Oilers are favoured to spell up 3-2 and are somewhat favoured to triumph it all, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.

The Panthers person won 10 of the 11 playoff bid they person been successful implicit the past 3 years, including a twelvemonth agone beating Edmonton successful 7 games successful the final.

This has been different, but inactive feels similar it could spell the distance.

"It's 2 bully teams, and they're arsenic matched and you're going to get immoderate bully hockey," said 40-year-old Oilers winger Corey Perry, whose archetypal intermission code helped spark their Game 4 comeback.

"There are immoderate superstars connected some sides of the puck. It's amusive to beryllium a portion of."