EDMONTON – It takes more than a Game 1 loss to shake the Florida Panthers’ confidence.

Of course, letting a two-goal lead slip away in their 4-3 overtime loss to the Edmonton Oilers in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday wasn’t the ideal way to start the best-of-7 series. The Panthers have been through enough the past three seasons, though, to understand that there’s a lot of series still ahead of them, beginning with Game 2 at Rogers Place on Friday (8 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, TNT, truTV, MAX).

“We've got a lot of battle scars on us from the last few years, and we've been through way worse than just yesterday,” Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk said Thursday. “We can be better, we can adjust a few things and come out tomorrow and try to get a win here and get some momentum goi

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