{"id":493397,"date":"2025-06-18T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493397"},"modified":"2025-06-18T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:51:09","slug":"panthers-beat-oilers-in-6-games-to-win-back-to-back-stanley-cups","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-beat-oilers-in-6-games-to-win-back-to-back-stanley-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers beat Oilers in 6 games to win back-to-back Stanley Cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champs by defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6, becoming the National Hockey League\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> back-to-back winners since Tampa Bay in 2020 and \u201921 and the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> franchise to achieve it this century.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Reinhart notched 4 goals, becoming just the 6<sup>th<\/sup> player in NHL history and 1<sup>st<\/sup> since Maurice Richard in 1957 to get that many in a match in the final. His 3<sup>rd<\/sup> to finish his hat-trick sent rats, along with hats, flying onto the ice. Matthew Tkachuk, 1 of the leaders of the Panthers, notched the Cup clincher.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PANTHERS TAKE DOWN THE OILERS AGAIN TO WIN THE STANLEY CUP \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>THE CUP IS STAYING IN FLORIDA \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kU04DE70rb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kU04DE70rb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1935167666710331689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sergei Bobrovsky saved 28 of 29 shots as the only goal that he allowed came from fellow Russian Vasily Podkolzin in garbage time, and his team had secured the title in a campaign that featured Alex Ovechkin\u2019s milestone as the all-time leading goal scorer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this cup as much as the 1<sup>st<\/sup> one,\u201d Reinhart claimed. \u201cWe learned some things and played better, and we are champions again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team is a dynasty at the moment,\u201d Tkachuk shared. \u201cThree straight seasons at the finals, 2 Stanley Cups. This is a special team.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE MOMENT THE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FLAPANTHERS<\/a> BECAME BACK-TO-BACK <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STANLEYCUP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#STANLEYCUP<\/a> CHAMPIONS! \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oYlia49VYJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oYlia49VYJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1935170411529986495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champs by defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6, becoming the National Hockey League\u2019s 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":493398,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17007,16872],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17889,18134],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Florida triumphed with the Stanley Cup for 2nd straight year.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493399,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493397\/revisions\/493399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493397"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493397"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}