12 people who could shape the 2025 NHL off-season

Editorial Staff / 1 minute
June 19, 2025
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With the Florida Panthers crowned Stanley Cup champions for the second straight year, focus will now quickly turn to what could be an intriguing NHL off-season. Emily Sadler looks at 12 people who could alter the league’s landscape.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have become like an Olympic sprinter who always makes the 100-metre final, but comes up a tenth of a second short of a gold medal.

They are, in a way, Scott Norwood. Good enough to get you to the Super Bowl-winning field goal shot, but wide right when it counts.

Where does a hockey team that scores 340 goals in a regular season and playoffs find the three or four more goals — for or against — that separate them from greatness, as a fourth consecutive season ends with a loss to the Stanley Cup champ?

How, in another season of more than 100 games played and 62 games won, do you build one or two more wins into your roster? But not in November — they have to come in June.

I heard someone ask if the Oilers need an identity change after their six-game loss to the Florida Panthers, and I thought, “Define how one changes a four-round identity? Do you go out in Round 1?”

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