Seth Jones certainly paid his dues. Suiting up in more than 900 games between the regular season and playoffs, the veteran defenseman is savoring his first trip to the Stanley Cup Final with the Florida Panthers. “I’m just trying to take it all in,” he said of playing on hockey’s biggest stage.

Stanley Cup Final is the same as the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, but the early results are different. The defending champion Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers are tied 1-1 through two games.

Even with all of that, they found a way to score the game-tying goal late in the third period and force overtime for a consecutive game against the defending Stanley Cup champions