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| Location(s) | Edmonton: Rogers Place Sunrise: Amerant Bank Arena | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaches | Edmonton: Kris Knoblauch Florida: Paul Maurice | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captains | Edmonton: Connor McDavid Florida: Aleksander Barkov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National anthems | Edmonton: Robert Clark Florida: G1: Madison Watkins (American) Jon Acosta (Canadian) G2: Gina Miles (American) Hannah Walpole (Canadian) G5: Brooke Alexx (American) Beverly Hodgson (Canadian) G7: Alanis Morissette | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | June 8–24, 2024[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Connor McDavid (Oilers) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series-winning goal | Sam Reinhart (15:11, second, G7) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Networks | Canada: (English): CBC/Sportsnet (French): TVA Sports United States: (English): ABC/ESPN+ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | (CBC/SN) Chris Cuthbert and Craig Simpson (ABC) Sean McDonough and Ray Ferraro (NHL International) E. J. Hradek and Kevin Weekes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2024 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2023–24 season and the culmination of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers defeated the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers four games to three in the best-of-seven series, earning their first championship in their thirty year history.
The series began on June 8, and ended on June 24.[1] The Panthers had home-ice advantage in the series as the team with the better regular season record. This was the fifth consecutive Finals featuring a team from Florida.[2]
This was the furthest distance between two cities for a Finals matchup in NHL history with 4,089 kilometres (2,541 miles), breaking the previous record of 4,023 kilometres (2,500 miles) set by the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins in 2011.[3] This was the first Finals since 1945 to see a team force a seventh game after being down 3–0,[4][5] with Florida becoming the first team since that occurrence to win the title in seven games after nearly surrendering a 3–0 series lead.[6] This was also the first Stanley Cup Finals since 2018 where no games went to overtime,[7] and the first since 2019 in which the losing team scored more goals (the Oilers outscored the Panthers 23–18 in the series).
- ^ a b "2024 Stanley Cup Final schedule announced". NHL.com. NHL Enterprises, L. P. May 30, 2024. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
- ^ Baer, Jack; Leahy, Sean (June 1, 2024). "NHL playoffs: Panthers knock off Rangers to reach 2nd straight Stanley Cup Final". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
- ^ Zeglinski, Robert (June 4, 2024). "Here's the record travel distance for the Panthers and Oilers during the 2024 Stanley Cup Final". USA Today. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
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