The 2025 Stanley Cup Remaining will final not less than six video games, because the Edmonton Oilers received one other extra time thriller over the Florida Panthers in Recreation 4.
With the sequence tied 2-2 heading into Recreation 5, it is now a best-of-three, making Saturday’s sport all of the extra pivotal. Which crew will transfer inside one W of the best trophy in sports activities?
Listed here are notes on the matchup from ESPN Analysis, in addition to betting intel from ESPN BET:
Extra from Recreation 4: Recap | Grades
Matchup notes
Florida Panthers at Edmonton Oilers
Recreation 5 | 8 p.m. ET | TNT/Max
What a distinction a sport makes! Heading into Recreation 4, the Panthers had been -260 favorites to win the Cup, with the Oilers at +215. Now, the 2 groups are each -110. Sam Bennett (+150) and Connor McDavid (+240) stay atop the Conn Smythe leaderboard — however Connor’s teammate Leon Draisaitl has joined him at +240 after he tallied the OT sport winner (his second of the sequence).
In historical past, when a Stanley Cup Remaining has been tied 2-2, the winner of Recreation 5 has gone on to win 19 out of 26 instances (.731 win proportion).
The Panthers have received their final three sequence that had been tied 2-2: 2022 first spherical vs. the Washington Capitals, 2024 convention finals vs. the New York Rangers and 2025 second spherical vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Oilers have received their final three sequence once they had been trailing 2-1: 2024 second spherical vs. the Vancouver Canucks, 2024 convention finals vs. the Dallas Stars, 2025 first spherical vs. the Los Angeles Kings.
The Oilers turned the seventh crew to beat a three-goal deficit to win a Stanley Cup Remaining sport, and the primary for the reason that Carolina Hurricanes did it to them in Recreation 1 of the 2006 finals. They’re solely the second crew to perform this feat on the street, becoming a member of the 1919 Montreal Canadiens on the Seattle Metropolitans.
The 2 groups have mixed to attain 32 objectives so far, which is the fourth most by way of the primary 4 video games of a Stanley Cup Remaining in NHL historical past.
The OT sport winner Draisaitl scored in Recreation 4 was his fourth such aim this postseason, setting a single-year report. He now owns the report for a single common season (six, set in 2024-25) and a single postseason.
After coming in to switch Stuart Skinner to start the second interval, Calvin Pickard ran his report this postseason to 7-0. He’s the primary goalie to win a sport in aid since Andrei Vasilevskiy picked up the W after changing Ben Bishop on 2015.
Draisaitl and McDavid make it 5 gamers in NHL historical past to attain 30 factors or extra in consecutive postseasons (2024 and 2025), becoming a member of Nikita Kucherov (2020 and 2021), Mario Lemieux (1991 and 1992) and Wayne Gretzky (1983 by way of 1985, plus 1987 and 1988).
Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk turned the ninth participant in Stanley Cup Remaining historical past to attain two power-play objectives in a interval and the primary since Tampa Bay’s Brad Richards in Recreation 6 of the 2004 finals.
After three robust video games to start out the finals, Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky faltered a bit in Recreation 4; his .857 save proportion was his lowest since Recreation 2 of the second-round sequence towards the Maple Leafs (.800).
Brad Marchand scored 4 objectives by way of the primary three video games of the sequence — together with the sport winner in double OT in Recreation 2 — however was held off of the scoresheet fully in Recreation 4. Will the change of venue again to Edmonton end in his getting again on the board?
Scoring leaders
GP: 21 | G: 14 | A: 7
GP: 20 | G: 11 | A: 21