2024 Stanley Cup Finals

The 2024 Stanley Cup Finals will be the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2023–24 season and the culmination of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series will be contested between the Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers and the Western Conference champion Houston Aeros. The series is scheduled to begin on June 8, with a possible seventh game scheduled for June 24. The Panthers will have home ice advantage in the series as the team with the better regular season record. This will be the fifth consecutive Finals to feature a team from the state of Florida. This will be 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.

Paths to the Finals

Houston

Main article: 2023–24 Houston Aeros season

This will be Houston's eighth Finals appearance. They have won the Stanley Cup five times, all of which came between 1984 and 1990 during their dynasty years. They lost their most recent Finals appearance in 2006, against the Carolina Hurricanes in seven games. During the offseason, the Aeros restructured their entire hockey roster. They also re-signed forward Mattias Janmark. The team started the season poorly, going 3–9–1 before they surprisingly bounce back and earned an official playoff berth.

Captain Connor McDavid led the team in scoring with 132 points. 100 of those points were assists, making him the fourth NHL player to record at least 100 assists in a season, the most recent being Wayne Gretzky in 1990–91. Perry will be making his fifth Finals appearance, previously winning with the Anaheim Ducks and losing with the Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, and Tampa Bay Lightning; this makes him the first player to play in the Stanley Cup Finals for five different teams.

The Oilers finished the regular season with 104 points via a 49–27–6 record, which gave them second place in the Pacific Division. In the first round of the playoffs, the Oilers defeated one of their rivals, the Los Angeles Kings, in five games. Edmonton then gained a seven-game victory against the Vancouver Canucks in the second round. They then defeated the Dallas Stars in six games in the conference finals.

Florida Panthers

Main article: 2023–24 Florida Panthers season

This will be the second consecutive and third overall Finals appearance for the Panthers. They lost both previous Finals appearances, being swept in four games in 1996 by the Colorado Avalanche and losing in five games to the Vegas Golden Knights in 2023.

During the offseason, the Panthers signed defencemen Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Dmitry Kulikov, forward Evan Rodrigues, and goaltender Anthony Stolarz in free agency. They also re-signed Eetu Luostarinen and traded for Steven Lorentz. At the trade deadline, the team acquired Vladimir Tarasenko, Magnus Hellberg, and Kyle Okposo. They also acquired Tobias Bjornfot via waivers. They also re-signed Gustav Forsling shortly before the trade deadline.

Sam Reinhart led the team in scoring with 57 goals and 94 points.

The Panthers finished first in the Atlantic Division with 110 points via a 52–24–6 record. In the first round, they defeated their intra-state rival, the Tampa Bay Lightning, in five games. In the second round, they won in six games against the Boston Bruins in a rematch from the previous season's first round. In the Eastern Conference final they faced the New York Rangers, who had won the Presidents' Trophy by having the best regular season record, and defeated them in six games.

Game summaries

Note: The numbers in parentheses represent each player's total goals or assists to that point of the entire playoffs.

Note: All times are in EDT (UTC−04:00.)

Game one

June 8

Edmonton Oilers

8:00 p.m.

Florida Panthers

Amerant Bank Arena

ABC, CBC, SN

Game two

June 10

Edmonton Oilers

8:00 p.m.

Florida Panthers

Amerant Bank Arena

ABC, CBC, SN

Game three

June 13

Florida Panthers

8:00 p.m.

Edmonton Oilers

Rogers Place

ABC, CBC, SN

Game four

June 15

Florida Panthers

8:00 p.m.

Edmonton Oilers

Rogers Place

ABC, CBC, SN

Game five

June 18

Edmonton Oilers

8:00 p.m.

Florida Panthers

Amerant Bank Arena

ABC, CBC, SN

Game six

June 21

Florida Panthers

8:00 p.m.

Edmonton Oilers

Rogers Place

ABC, CBC, SN

Game seven

June 24

Edmonton Oilers

8:00 p.m.

Florida Panthers

Amerant Bank Arena

ABC, CBC, SN

Team rosters

Years indicated in boldface under the "Finals appearance" column signify that the player won the Stanley Cup in the given year.

Edmonton Oilers

Connor McDavid captained the Oilers to their eighth Finals appearance and first since 2006.

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth	Finals appearance
2		Evan Bouchard	D	R	24	2018	Oakville, Ontario	first
86		Philip Broberg	D	L	22	2019	Orebro, Sweden	first
28		Connor Brown	RW	R	30	2023	Etobicoke, Ontario	first
39		Sam Carrick	C	R	32	2024	Markham, Ontario	first
5		Cody Ceci	D	R	30	2021	Ottawa, Ontario	first
73		Vincent Desharnais	D	R	28	2016	Laval, Quebec	first
29		Leon Draisaitl – A	C	L	28	2014	Cologne, Germany	first
14		Mattias Ekholm	D	L	34	2023	Borlange, Sweden	second (2017)
37		Warren Foegele	LW	L	28	2021	Markham, Ontario	first
19		Adam Henrique	C	L	34	2024	Brantford, Ontario	second (2012)
55		Dylan Holloway	LW	L	22	2020	Calgary, Alberta	first
18		Zach Hyman	LW	R	31	2021	Toronto, Ontario	first
13		Mattias Janmark	D	L	31	2022	Danderyd, Sweden	second (2020)
91		Evander Kane	LW	L	32	2022	Vancouver, British Columbia	first
27		Brett Kulak	D	L	30	2022	Stony Plain, Alberta	second (2021)
97		Connor McDavid – C	C	L	27	2015	Richmond Hill, Ontario	first
71		Ryan McLeod	C	L	24	2018	Mississauga, Ontario	first
93		Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – A	C	L	31	2011	Burnaby, British Columbia	first
25		Darnell Nurse – A	D	L	29	2013	Hamilton, Ontario	first
90		Corey Perry	RW	R	39	2024	Peterborough, Ontario	fifth (2007, 2020, 2021, 2022)
30		Calvin Pickard	G	L	32	2022	Moncton, New Brunswick	first
10		Derek Ryan	C	R	37	2021	Spokane, Washington	first
74		Stuart Skinner	G	L	25	2017	Edmonton, Alberta	first

Florida Panthers

Aleksander Barkov captained the Panthers to their second consecutive and third overall Finals appearance.

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth	Finals appearance
16		Aleksander Barkov – C	C	L	28	2013	Tampere, Finland	second (2023)
9		Sam Bennett	C	L	27	2021	East Gwillimbury, Ontario	second (2023)
72		Sergei Bobrovsky	G	L	35	2019	Novokuznetsk, Soviet Union	second (2023)
21		Nick Cousins	C	L	30	2022	Belleville, Ontario	second (2023)
5		Aaron Ekblad – A	D	R	28	2014	Windsor, Ontario	second (2023)
91		Oliver Ekman-Larsson	D	L	32	2023	Karlskrona, Sweden	first
42		Gustav Forsling	D	L	27	2021	Linköping, Sweden	second (2023)
7		Dmitry Kulikov	D	L	33	2023	Lipetsk, Soviet Union	first
94		Ryan Lomberg	LW	L	29	2020	Richmond Hill, Ontario	second (2023)
18		Steven Lorentz	C	L	28	2023	Kitchener, Ontario	first
15		Anton Lundell	C	L	22	2020	Espoo, Finland	second (2023)
27		Eetu Luostarinen	C	L	25	2020	Siilinjärvi, Finland	second (2023)
77		Niko Mikkola	D	L	28	2023	Kiiminki, Finland	first
62		Brandon Montour	D	R	30	2021	Ohsweken, Ontario	second (2023)
8		Kyle Okposo	RW	R	36	2024	Saint Paul, Minnesota	first
13		Sam Reinhart	C	R	28	2021	North Vancouver, British Columbia	second (2023)
17		Evan Rodrigues	C	R	30	2023	Etobicoke, Ontario	first
82		Kevin Stenlund	C	R	27	2023	Stockholm, Sweden	first
41		Anthony Stolarz	G	L	30	2023	Edison, New Jersey	first
10		Vladimir Tarasenko	RW	R	32	2024	Yaroslavl, Soviet Union	second (2019)
19		Matthew Tkachuk – A	LW	L	26	2022	Scottsdale, Arizona	second (2023)
23		Carter Verhaeghe	C	L	28	2020	Waterdown, Ontario	third (2020, 2023)

Media rights

In Canada, this will be the tenth consecutive Stanley Cup Finals broadcast by Sportsnet and CBC Television in English, and TVA Sports in French. The series will also be streamed on Sportsnet+, but no longer available on CBC Gem like in previous years.

In the United States, the series will be televised on ABC and streamed on ESPN+. This is the third year of a seven-year deal in which ABC/ESPN+ will show the Finals in even years and TNT/Max will televise the series in odd years.

For the first time, the Finals will be broadcast with commentary and analysis in American Sign Language for the benefit of the Deaf community on both ESPN+ and Sportsnet+.

External links

Preceded by Vegas Golden Knights 2023

TBD Stanley Cup champions 2024

Succeeded by TBD

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