The two teams that have combined to win the last three Stanley Cups stumble into a meeting on Monday night in Las Vegas when the two-time defending champion Florida Panthers take on the 2023 champion Vegas Golden Knights.

It's the final game of a four-game Western road trip for the Panthers, who sandwiched losses at Anaheim (7-3) and San Jose (3-1) around a 5-2 victory at Los Angeles.

Florida, no doubt hampered by injuries to captain Aleksander Barkov and star left wing Matthew Tkachuk, is just 4-7-1 over its last 12 games and is in seventh place in the Atlantic Division. One of those wins was a 3-0 victory over the Golden Knights on Oct. 25 in Sunrise, Fla.

Despite the loss to the Sharks on Saturday, the Panthers were upbeat before boarding their plane to Sin City. Florida outshot San

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