2023 Stanley Cup Finals
The 2023 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2022–23 season and the culmination of the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Western Conference champion Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers four games to one in the best-of-seven series to earn their first championship in their sixth season. The series began on June 3, and concluded on June 13.
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| Location(s) | Sunrise: FLA Live Arena (3, 4) Paradise: T-Mobile Arena (1, 2, 5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaches | Florida: Paul Maurice Vegas: Bruce Cassidy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Captains | Florida: Aleksander Barkov Vegas: Mark Stone | |||||||||||||||||||||
| National anthems | Florida: Phillip Phillips (3) Cassadee Pope (4) Vegas: Carnell Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Referees | Steve Kozari (2, 4) Wes McCauley (1, 4) Dan O'Rourke (1, 3) Chris Rooney (2, 5) Kelly Sutherland (3, 5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates | June 3–13, 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Jonathan Marchessault (Golden Knights) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Series-winning goal | Reilly Smith (12:13, second, G5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Networks | Canada: (English): CBC/Sportsnet (French): TVA Sports United States: (English): TNT/TruTV, TBS (1–4) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | (CBC/SN) Chris Cuthbert and Craig Simpson (TNT/TruTV/TBS) Kenny Albert, Eddie Olczyk, and Keith Jones (NHL International) E. J. Hradek and Kevin Weekes | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This was the first Finals series since 2018 in which neither team had previously won the Stanley Cup. For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Finals ran through the first weeks of June.
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