The 2023 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) 2022–23 season and the culmination of the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was contested between the Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers and the Western Conference champion Vegas Golden Knights. Vegas won the best-of-seven series, four games to one, to earn their first championship in their sixth season. This was the first Finals series since 2018, which the Golden Knights also played, in which neither team has previously won the Stanley Cup and the first to have two teams from the Sun Belt since 2020. For the first time since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Finals ran through the first weeks of June. The series began on June 3 and concluded on June 13. This was the second Finals since 2018 (after 2021) to require less than six games and to have the Cup won on home ice.