The Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers will start the best-of-7 Final with Game 1 at Rogers Place on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, TNT, truTV, MAX). It's a rematch of last season's Final, which the Florida Panthers won in seven games.

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Earlier this week, the 24-year-old attended his first-ever NHL game when the Carolina Hurricanes took on the Florida Panthers in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Legette sat ice-side and Bleacher Report mic’d him up for the entire game.

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I’m not being disrespectful to the other teams I’ve coached, but the team here is just the best team I’ve ever coached. It’s not really that close.’

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After staving off elimination in Game 4, the Carolina Hurricanes must do it again Wednesday night against the Florida Panthers in a do-or-die Game 5 of the NHL Eastern Conference Finals.

He gave us a chance to hold the whole way and that’s all you can ask for, especially when you have a game like that.’