Stanley Cup Game 6 Preview: Edmonton Oilers at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 6/17/2025

Stanley Cup Game 6 Preview: Florida Panthers at Edmonton Oilers with Line Combinations 6/17/2025
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Edmonton Oilers (14-6-1) at Florida Panthers (15-5-2)

Venue: Amerant Bank Arena  
Date: Saturday, June 14
Time: 8:00 PM EST
TV: TNT/truTV/MAX/SN/CBC/TVAS
Radio:
Florida – 560 AM WQAM
Edmonton – Oilers Radio 880 CHE

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Line

Edmonton: +1.5 ML +124
Florida -1.5 ML -148
O/U 6.5
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Edmonton Oilers News & Notes: 

The Oilers are on the verge of seeing their season end tonight. With a win they can force a winner-take-all game seven. Edmonton is averaging 3.9 goals per game while allowing 3.2 goals per game in the playoffs.  Calvin Pickard has taken over in net for Edmonton, he stopped 14 of the 18 shots he faced in game six. He is posting a 2.85 goals-against average and a .886 save percentage. Stuart Skinner is posting a 2.99 goals-against average, a .891 save percentage, and three shutouts.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers can win their second consecutive Stanley Cup tonight with a win. In the playoffs, they are averaging four goals per game while allowing 2.5 goals per game. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 19 of the 21 shots he faced in game five. He is posting a 2.26 goals-against average, a .912 save percentage, and three shutouts.

Edmonton Oilers Projected Lines

Nugent-Hopkins-McDavid-Brown
Podkolzin-Draisaitl-Perry
Skinner-Henrique-Frederic
Kane-Janmark-Arvidsson

Ekholm-Walman
Kulak-Bouchard 
Nurse-Stecher

Pickard
Skinner

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Rodrigues-Bennett-Tkachuk
Luostarinen-Lundell-Marchand
Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Schmidt-Kulikov

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Players To Watch:

Edmonton Oilers

Connor McDavid this season had 100 points on 26 goals and 74 assists. He has 33 points in the playoffs on seven goals and 26 assists.  In two games against Florida in the regular season, he had four assists.

Florida Panthers

Brad Marchand this season had 51 points on 23 goals and 28 assists. He had four points in ten games with the Panthers in the regular season, on two goals and two assists. He has 20 points in the playoffs on ten goals and ten assists. In three games against Edmonton in the regular season, he was held pointless.

Injury Report:

Edmonton Oilers

D Alec Regula – IR
F Zach Hyman – Out

Florida Panthers

None

Next Game:

Game 7: Friday, June 20 at Rogers Place (If Necessary)

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