Where do the Oilers and Panthers rank among the greatest repeat Cup final matchups?

Are you enjoying the rematch between the Panthers and Oilers? I’m guessing you are, since it’s already getting some buzz as the one of the greatest finals of the cap era. This comes one year after our own Chris Jonhnston ranked the 2024 edition as the best final of the era before it was even over.

So yeah, it’s far to say these two teams work well together. Sometimes, with the right matchup, that just happens. Where it’s Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, or Bret Hart and Steve Austin, some pairings just make magic together. And that can be true even if it takes a little while to get them back together.

As luck would have it, the Oilers and Panthers are the tenth time that the same two teams have met in multiple Stanley Cup finals since the start of the expansion era in 1968. So today, let’s put together a ranking of all ten of those pairings, from worst to best, based on how entertaining the resulting series were.

The Panthers and Oilers are at a disadvantage here, since their second series hasn’t ended yet. But I’m guessing they’re still going to rank pretty high, and might even end up taking the crown. Let’s find out…

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