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2025 Stanley Cup Final: Best bets to win championship, Conn Smythe Trophy
2025 Stanley Cup Final: Best bets to win championship, Conn Smythe Trophy
For the fifth time from the time of expansion of the Nhl It began in 1967-68, a resale of the Stanley Cup final of the previous year will take place. The Florida panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in seven games last season to win the championship for the first time in the history of the franchise. Edmonton has a home lead this time and welcomes Florida on Wednesday for match 1 of the Stanley 2025 Cup final.
This marks the first time that the teams themselves have been facing the championship during the later years since the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins fought for the Cup in both 2008 and 2009. Detroit won the title at the first meeting, but Pittsburgh demanded revenge the next post -season. The Montreal Canadiens defeated the St. Louis Blues both in 1968 and in 1969, then defeated the Boston Bruins in 1977 and 1978, while the New York Islands went to Edmonton in 1983 before losing before the Oilers a year later.
Florida and Edmonton won their final series of the conference in five games, and the Panthers defeated the Hurricanes Carolina and the Oilers sending the Dallas stars for the second consecutive season. Florida, who almost wasted a 3-0 lead in the final of 2024, won a couple of decisions of a single goal against Edmonton this past regular season.
The Panthers are the ninth franchise in the history of the NHL, the fourth from the Playoff field expanded to 16 teams in 1980 and the second of the last 40 years to make three consecutive appearances in the final of the Stanley Cup. They are also the sixth consecutive representative of the State of Sunshine to reach the final, as the Tampa Bay Lightning appeared three times consecutive from 2020-22.
It is the fourth global appearance of Florida, while Edmonton is in the final for the ninth time in the history of the team. Oilers are traveling on their backs for the third time in general and first since they won the Cup in 1987 and 1988.
Although their oilers occurred last year, Connor McDavid became the sixth player in the Playoff history to win the Trophy Conne Smythe as a member of the losing team. The three winner of the Hart trophy led the League with 42 points in the post-season to join Roger Crozier (1968, Red Wings), Glenn Hall (1968, Blues), Reggie Leach (1976, Philadelphia Flyers), Ron Hextall (1987, Flyers) and Jean-Sebastien Giguere (2003 from Anaheim) to the exclusive club.
McDavid enters the Final of the Stanley Cup of 2025 as a marker leader with 26 points in 16 games, with his teammate Leon Draisaitl, 25 years old. Captain Aleksander Barkov won the panthers with 17 points in so many contests.
Sergei Bobrovsky has published an average of 2.11 goals and. The goalkeepers are tied for the leadership of the post -season with three games.
Despite losing last year’s game, Edmonton is the favorite to win the Stanley Cup with likely to -120 in most sports books. Panthers are the subdogs with +100. Meanwhile, McDavid is encouraged to take the Conn Smythe trophy, with its odds from -110 to +110 in the main sports books.
Here is my prediction to win the Stanley 2025 Cup and the best bets to win the Smythe Trophy.
Stanley Cup champion
Edmonton Oilers (-120, Fanduel)
Before the start of the Playoffs of the Stanley 2025 Cup, my expectations for the oilers were low. After all, the last team that returned to the final after losing the previous year was the Penguins of 2009. But Edmonton has shown me wrong in every turn, defeating the Kings of Los Angeles, Vegas Golden Knights and Stars. After losing the first two games of their first series against the Kings, the Oilers have passed 12-2 while the goalkeepers changed twice.
They have scored at least three goals in both of their 16 playoff games, cleaning four or more on nine occasions and allowed less than three out of their last 12 contests. Edmonton is without one of his top scorers to Zach Hyman (upper body), but he has received offensive contributions from many of his actors. He also won Higher Ombudsman Mattias Ekholm in match 5 of the Western Conference Final and was receiving a stellar game of Skinner, which allowed a total of two goals during his first five wins this post -empowerment before transferring three to the Clincher against Dallas series.
McDavid and the Oilers almost removed the impossible in the final of last year, forcing a seventh game in which they lost 2-1 after leaving the first three contests, and seem to be on a mission to claim the Cup for the first time since 1990.
The best bets on the TROPE CONT SMYTHE
Connor McDavid, Oilers (+110, Draftkings)
It’s Very Unlikely That McDavid Will Reach The Point Total I registered Last PostSeason, But IF He’s able to Come Close To His Performance In The Final Conference, He’s a Lock to Become The Seventh Player in Nhl History to Win Multiple Conn Smythe Trophies and Bernie Parent (1974-75), Mario Lemieux (1991-92) and Sidney Crosby (2016-17) As the Only Ones to Earn The Award in years ago.
McDavid recorded four two-point efforts in the triumph of five games over the stars, giving him a new league level of these outings in this post-season. The 28 -year -old captain has remained out of the marking sheet in just two of Edmonton’s 16 Playoff games and once in his last 14 contests. He had a couple of four -point performances against the panthers in the final of last year and finished the series with three goals and 11 assists. Unless Florida is able to retain it without a point three times as it did in 2024, it is likely that McDavid will make another addition to its trophy.
Sergei Bobrovsky, Panthers (+260, Caesars)
Many thought that Bobrovsky would capture the Smythe connection last year after publishing a percentage of 2.32 GAA I .906. The Russian netminder maintained the great power offense of Edmonton to less than two goals three times in the final, recording one of its two releases of the 2024 season along the way.
Bobrovsky has been excellent in these playoffs since he renounced four or more goals in each of the first three games of the second round of Florida against the Toronto Maple Leafs, as he yielded two or less in eight consecutive contests before three in the fifth game of the East Conference Final Versus the Hurricanes. It would be difficult to move to Bobrovsky for a second consecutive year if he is able to continue with this strong game against the oilers and guide the panthers to another championship.
