The Edmonton Oilers lost the Stanley Cup Final to the Florida Panthers for a second straight year with the club's 5ˆ1 defeat in Tuesday night's Game 6. And while Oilers captain Connor McDavid first credited the Panthers as a strong team and then credited his own team with for its resolve during the hard-fought series,

Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman is looking at an active summer. The last remnants of the Ken Holland era burned out Tuesday night in Sunrise, Fla., just as dusk arrived in the city of Edmonton.

The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champions by defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6 of the final on Tuesday night, becoming the NHL’s first back-to-back winners since Tampa Bay in 2020 and ’21 and the third team to do it this century.