The Panthers won three of their four home games in the final last year, including the first two on the way to going up 3-0 in the series. The Oilers took Games 4 and 6 in Edmonton and Game 5 at Florida before their gut-wrenching loss in Game 7.

Don Cherry Doubles Down on His Stanley Cup Final Prediction originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The 2025 Stanley Cup Final is already underway and a tight affair, as most fans and analysts predicted, with both teams having one win as the finals shift to Sunrise, FL, for Games 3 and 4.

This has been a different final than many in the recent past, in part because there’s no underdog in it who no one expected to get this far, the opponents know each other well and the teams are nearly at full strength.