
Ultimate Game 7 stakes weighing on Oilers, Panthers: ‘Excites you’
NY Post
SUNRISE, Fla. — The End is here.
But as the Panthers and Oilers get ready to decide the 2023-24 NHL champion once and for all on Monday night in sweltering south Florida, the past is just as interested in the result as the present.
Will a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup for the first time since the Canadiens in 1993?
Will the Cup finals see their first successful comeback from a 3-0 deficit since the Maple Leafs pulled the feat against the Red Wings in 1942?
Or will the Panthers survive having lost the past three games by an aggregate score of 18-5 and hoist the franchise’s first Stanley Cup since its inception in the 1993-94 season?
It’s the stuff of dreams … or nightmares. But on Sunday, both teams were thinking about the dreams.

SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.










