Marchand raised his kids in Halifax, while Kane headed across the country to Vancouver. But they have this week, as Brad Marchand and Evander Kane’s teams, the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers, battle for the Stanley Cup,

If the series opener of the Stanley Cup Final is a hint of things to come, the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers are about to give everyone a memorable show.

Kasperi Kapanen cut through the neutral zone, knifed past a pair of flat-footed defenders, avoided a desperate poke check — and then chimed the puck off Sergei Bobrovsky's left post. The Edmonton Oilers winger came within centimetres of penning a dramatic overtime ending to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final.