2017 Stanley Cup Finals

The 2017 Stanley Cup Finals will be the championship series of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s 2016–17 season and the culmination of the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The series will pit the Eastern Conference playoff champion and defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins against the Western Conference champion Nashville Predators.

The Penguins will have home ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record.

The series will begin on May 29, 2017 and conclude no later than June 14, 2017.

The Penguins will make their second consecutive Finals appearance, the third time in their history they have done this following their appearances in 1991, 1992, 2008 and 2009.

No team had appeared in consecutive Finals since the latter year (which was a rematch between the Penguins and Detroit Red Wings).

The Predators will make their debut in the Finals. This will be the second consecutive season in which a Western Conference team will make their first appearance in the Finals; the San Jose Sharks made their Finals debut last year.