2024 Stanley Cup Finals
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The 2024 Stanley Cup Finals is the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2023–24 season and the culmination of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series is being contested between the Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers and the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers. The series began on June 8, with a possible seventh game scheduled for June 24.[1] The Panthers have home ice advantage in the series as the team with the better regular season record. This is the fifth consecutive Finals to feature a team from the state of Florida.[2] This is the furthest distance between two cities in NHL history for the Finals with 4,089.3 km (2,541 miles), breaking the previous record of 4,023 km (2,499.8 miles) by the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins in 2011.[3]
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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) | ||||||||||||||||||
Referees | Steve Kozari (1), Dan O'Rourke (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
Dates | June 8–24, 2024[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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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