{"id":2393,"date":"2025-07-17T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2393\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:17:08","slug":"2025-nhl-stanley-cup-odds-panthers-one-win-from-championship-ahead-of-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2393\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NHL Stanley Cup Odds: Panthers One Win from Championship Ahead of Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NHL<\/a> playoffs have officially reached the Stanley Cup Final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">This series might look familiar, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/florida-panthers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Panthers<\/a> look to defend their title by defeating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/edmonton-oilers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> for a second straight year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/connor-mcdavid-player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Connor McDavid<\/a> and the Oilers overcome Florida this season?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Will we have a new champion for the fifth time in five years?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Let&#8217;s check out the Stanley Cup champion odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of June 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Panthers (3) vs. Oilers (3)<br \/>Playoff series: FLA leads 3-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/florida-panthers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Panthers<\/a>: -350 (bet $10 to win $12.86 total)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/edmonton-oilers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oilers<\/a>: +280 (bet $10 to win $38 total)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Game 6 odds<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Panthers: -155 (bet $10 to win $16.45 total)<br \/>Oilers: +130 (bet $10 to win $23 total)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Edmonton won Game 1 of the Stanley Cup series after Leon Draisaitl scored a power-play goal with 31 seconds left in overtime. Draisaitl and the Oilers found the back of the net first at 1:06 into the first period, and then came back from 3-1 down to force OT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">In Game 2, it was double overtime, but this time, the Panthers emerged with the win via a Brad Marchand goal at the 8:05 mark of the second extra period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">With that, the Panthers became the favorites once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">In Game 3, no extra time was needed, as the Panthers jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the second period before cruising to a 6-1 victory, taking a 2-1 lead in the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">But in Game 4, even with Florida jumping out to a 3-0 lead in the first period, things ended in overtime once again, as Edmonton stormed back to take a 4-3 before winning 5-4 in OT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Talk about a back and forth series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Panthers took a commanding 5-2 Game 5 win after Marchand added another two goals \u2014 giving him a series-leading six goals \u2014 the most by any player in a Stanley Cup Final since 1988. Florida is one win away from bringing home the trophy once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">While Florida has been to the last three Stanley Cups, and won last season, the last time the Oilers took home the trophy was in 1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">It has been over 30 years since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">A different franchise has won the Stanley Cup in each of the past four years. The Lightning were the last team to repeat, winning it in 2020 and 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Prior to that, the Penguins won it back to back in 2016 and 2017, and before that, the last team to win consecutive titles was the Red Wings in 1997 and 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Of the last 10 NHL champions, six have been from the Eastern Conference and four have been from the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NHL.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"National Hockey League\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the National Hockey League Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL playoffs have officially reached the Stanley Cup Final.\u00a0 This series might look familiar, as the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}