
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.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












