The Edmonton Oilers are Stanley Cup runners-up once again.
Edmonton was defeated by the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final for the second straight season, losing the NHL's 2025 championship round in six games.
After the Oilers nearly overcame a 3-0 series deficit against Florida last year, Edmonton took the first game of the Cup Final rematch at home in overtime. The Panthers responded with two straight wins, one of which was a double-OT thriller, before the Oilers evened the series back up with an OT Game 4 victory. But Florida secured a repeat championship by winning Games 5 and 6 by a combined score of 10-3.
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SIGN UP HERE The Oilers wound up making history in this year's Cup Final -- just not the kind they were hoping for. Edmonton had been seeking the franchise's first championship since 1990, but instead suffered a rare second straight Cup Final loss.
Has an NHL team ever lost back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals?
The Oilers aren't the first team to suffer Cup Final losses in consecutive seasons.
How many NHL teams have lost back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals?
Since the start of the expansion era in the 1967-68 season, there have been just three instances of the same team losing at least two Cup Finals in a row.
Who was the last NHL team to lose back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals?
Prior to the Oilers, it had been nearly 50 years since the last repeat Stanley Cup runner-up.
The Boston Bruins lost the 1977 Cup Final to the Montreal Canadiens before suffering the same fate against Montreal in 1978. Boston's consecutive Cup Final defeats were part of a four-peat for Montreal from 1976-79.
The only other team to record consecutive runner-up finishes is the St. Louis Blues, who were defeated in three straight Cup Finals. St. Louis lost to the Canadiens in 1968 and 1969 before falling to the Bruins in 1970. The Blues wouldn't make it back to the Cup Final until 2019, when they defeated the Bruins for the franchise's first championship.