If Game 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final was any indication, Panthers-Oilers II is going to be incredible. Either way, Edmonton carries a 1-0 series lead into Game 2 on Friday night (8 p.m. ET, TNT/Max).

The defending champion Florida Panthers look to even things up in the Stanley Cup Final against the Edmonton Oilers in Game 2 on Friday night

To win at this time of the year players put their bodies through so much. In this series, with the history of the two teams, having met in the Stanley Cup Final last year, the Panthers edging the Oilers in seven games, there was a feeling going in that it was essentially a rivalry continued as opposed to renewed.