Welcome to the 2025 Stanley Cup Final from Rogers Place in Edmonton.

NHL.com Senior Director of Editorial Shawn P. Roarke is in the arena and will provide all the sights and sounds from Game 1.

8:18 p.m. ET

We’re minutes away from puck drop and this place is building to a crescendo. You can feel the pent-up enthusiasm and excitement as Rogers Place as the houselights broke.

When Hunter, the most intimidating mascot in the League (just ask NHL.com’s Amalie Benjamin) took the ice, the chants of “Let’s Go Oilers” started in earnest. When the building was referred to as a “terror dome” in the hype video the chants got louder and when the clip from the dressing room after last season’s Game 7 when Zach Hyman said that he knew in his heart they would be back here, it became absolutely bizonk

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