The Oilers open the title series Saturday against the Panthers at Amerant Arena, the culmination of a roller-coaster campaign that was nearly lost a month into the schedule.
WATCH ABOVE: Recent news and highlights as the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers prepare to square off in the Stanley Cup final.The last-place, torn-down-to-the-studs San Jose Sharks were celebrating a 3-2 victory down the hall that brought the rebuilding club even on points with McDavid’s confused and frustrated group.
“When you’re going through it, obviously it sucks and it doesn’t feel like that. But our group came together.”The Oilers are looking to win their sixth Cup — and first since 1990 — after last making the championship showdown in 2006 when they lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in seven games. A matchup that features the furthest distance between cities in the final in league history at 4,089 kilometres, the series will be one of contrasts.Committed to defence more so than ever before in the McDavid and Draisaitl era, the Oilers have a high-flying offence that downed the Los Angeles Kings in the first round before having to come back from series deficits to defeat the Vancouver Canucks and Dallas Stars for the Western Conference crown.
The Panthers, meanwhile, are a tough, four-line juggernaut built from Sergei Bobrovsky’s net out that rolled through the Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins before dispatching the Presidents’ Trophy-winning New York Rangers.
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