Oilers look for redemption against Panthers in Game 4 of Stanley Cup final

Kevin Maimann · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 6:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

The Edmonton Oilers are looking for a divided connected the roadworthy Thursday aft getting trounced by the Florida Panthers successful Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final. 

The Panthers dominated their archetypal location crippled of the finals connected Monday, winning 6-1 to instrumentality the bid pb aft 2 choky overtime games successful Edmonton. 

Oilers manager Kris Knoblauch is shuffling the team's lineup arsenic helium looks to bounce back, bringing Troy Stecher successful to regenerate John Klingberg connected defence and Jeff Skinner to measurement successful for Viktor Arvidsson up front.

Stuart Skinner volition get the commencement successful goal, contempt speculation that backup Calvin Pickard mightiness gully successful aft Skinner allowed 5 goals connected 23 shots Monday. 

Skinner has traditionally been stellar successful Game 4s, with a 6-0 grounds including 2 shutouts and a .955 prevention percentage.

Knoblauch besides appears to beryllium changing up his guardant enactment combinations, bumping Connor Brown up to the apical enactment to play with Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who missed Tuesday's signifier owed to an undisclosed wounded but is inactive expected to suit up. 

Tempers boiled implicit successful Game 3

Things went Florida's mode from the outset successful the penalty-ridden Game 3, with the squad scoring aboriginal and holding the lead throughout. 

Tempers boiled implicit successful the 3rd play Monday, with scuffles carrying connected extracurricular of the play and past the last buzzer.

Florida winger A.J. Greer stole Oilers defenceman Jake Walman's mitt and threw it into the Panthers' seat successful the 2nd period, and Walman squirted h2o connected the opposing seat successful retaliation.

The NHL fined Walman $5,000 for the spray, and different $5,000 for punching Panthers guardant Matthew Tkachuk successful the 3rd period.

A Panthers instrumentality was besides seen dumping a portion connected Oilers guardant Kasperi Kapanen connected his mode to the dressing country successful the third, successful a video that generated overmuch chatter online. 

Game 4 sum starts astatine 8pm ET/6pm MT.