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2025 Stanley Cup Final Game 6: NHL Fans Respond To Fast-Starting Florida Panthers Slipping Past Edmonton Oilers For Repeat Title

Jeff Hawkins Written by Sports EditorJeff Hawkins
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2025 Stanley Cup Final Game 6: NHL Fans Respond To Fast-Starting Florida Panthers Slipping Past Edmonton Oilers For Repeat Title

Another fast start. 

Another Stanley Cup championship. 

For the sixth consecutive NHL postseason game, the Florida Panthers scored multiple first-period goals and cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 6 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final. The Panthers won the series, 4-2. 

Edmonton’s final series loss marked another national failure. A team from Canada has not won the Stanley Cup since 1993. 

Paced Tuesday night by Sam Reinhart’s record-matching four goals, the Panthers earned consecutive Stanley Cup titles. They are the first to accomplish the feat since the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2020 and ‘21. 

The Panthers, who established a series record for time lead in a Cup final, became the second team in NHL history to score at least two goals in the first period in six consecutive playoff outings, matching the 1988 Detroit Red Wings.

X (Twitter) users replied to the Panthers’ pre-game focus …

In 2024, the Oilers came up big in Game 6 to force a deciding match. Tuesday night, in Game 6, they came out flat, committed unforced errors and failed to rally …

Another milestone for the ageless Corey Perry …

The Game 6 establishing shot …

First Period

Reinhart opened the Game 6 scoring by connecting while falling to the ice …

The dagger? With 47 seconds left in the first period, Matthew Tkachuk scored his eighth of the playoffs off assists by Eetu Luostarinen and Anton Lundell. It proved to be the Cup clincher …

Second Period

Reinhart connected on his second marker, assisted by Aleksander Barkov and Carter Verhaeghe, giving the Panthers a 3-0 advantage …

Third Period

Reinhart collected a hat trick with an empty-netter …

Tying a Stanley Cup Final record with four goals, Reinhart matched Maurice Richard’s 1957 mark …

Vasily Podkolzin scored with 4:42 remaining to snap the shutout bid by Panthers’ goalie Sergei Bobrovsky (28 saves) …

Connor McDavid was left heartbroken for a second consecutive season. How many more chances will he have to cement his future Hall-of-Fame legacy? …

The Celebration

Final score: Panthers 5, Oilers 1 …

Hoisting the Cup …

Kudos, Sam Bennett …

Jeff Hawkins Written by Sports EditorJeff Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins is an award-winning sportswriter with more than four decades in the industry, in both print and digital media. He joined the Sportscasting team in 2021 following a decade of freelancing. He spent his early career as a reporter for various newspapers in Illinois, New York, Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan, with a particular emphasis as a beat reporter for the Chicago Blackhawks. Jeff earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Oakland University. Over the course of his career he earned several sports writing awards, including two national awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors for column writing and news reporting. One of the five prized columns included a commentary on NASCAR's increasing corporate influences, particularly in northern racetracks — commentary which you might find Jeff building on as part of the Motorsports writing team at Sportscasting now.  
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