EDMONTON -- The 12th rematch in Stanley Cup Final history gets underway Wednesday, when the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers play Game 1 at Rogers Place (8 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, TNT, truTV, MAX).

The Panthers defeated the Oilers in seven games to win their first Stanley Cup championship last year.

This is the second Cup Final rematch in the past 40 years and first since the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh faced each other in 2008 and 2009. The Red Wings won in six games in 2008; the Penguins got their revenge in 2009 with a seven-game victory.

"We know the routine, we know the opponent," Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. "There were a lot of unknowns last year. Now that we've been here we're just a little more, I don't want to say comfortable, but we just know what the routine i

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