Reports that GM Ken Holland will NOT be leaving the Oilers after all

According to a report from NHL insider Darren Dreger, the Edmonton Oilers have offered GM Ken Holland a role that will keep him in the organization.

The thing is... it's not clear what that role is exactly.

Holland's GM contract expires on July 1st and there's a sense that new President Jeff Jackson will move into the GM role, but that hasn't been confirmed just yet. So, again it's unclear what Holland's new role might be, but Dreger reports that Holland will not be with the team at the Draft on Friday.

From Dreger:

Read below for our earlier report on Oilers captain Connor McDavid's injury, and then further reports on last night's action.

Multiple insiders are reporting that Edmonton Oilers captain is expected to undergo abdominal surgery to repair a nagging injury. Additionally, assistant captain Leon Draisaitl reportedly played through a broken finger and broken ribs.

More from Oilers Nation's Zach Laing:

- Zach Laing

More to come including official confirmation from the team.

Read below for our earlier reports on last night's action.

Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid was the first member of his team to meet with the media following last night's Game 7 loss to the Florida Panthers.

Listen to the emotional captain wade his way through some difficult questions:

Man, you've just GOT to feel for this guy.

He's the best player in the NHL and it's not even close. Hell, he may be the best player in all of professional sports. He will his team down from down 0-3 to give themselves a shot at a championship that no one thought possible. In the end, the task proved too difficult but McDavid was just good enough to make us all believe for a moment.

Read below for our earlier reports on this game, published as events occurred.

Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk has become the first Tkachuk to hoist the Stanley Cup.

Tkachuk and the Panthers finally, mercifully clinched the Stanley Cup this evening with a 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.

And when Tkachuk hoisted the Cup he made sure to find his family in the crowd, including father Keith Tkachuk and brother Brady Tkachuk so that he could celebrate in clear view of them. Brady, captain Ottawa Senators, appeared overcome with emotion in the moment. 

Check out this incredible moment for an incredible hockey family:

Read below for our earlier reports on this game, published as events occurred.

Check out this incredible moment in the wake of the Florida Panthers' Stanley Cup celebration this evening when head coach Paul Maurice was presented with the Cup mid-interview with ESPN's Emily Kaplan:

What a moment!

Maurice is all class, this is a well deserved victory for the hockey lifer.

And if you need any more evidence of his class, here's Maurice just moments earlier personally wishing for a Winnipeg Jets Stanley Cup victory next season:

Read below for our earlier reports on this game, published as events occurred.

Connor McDavid has won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Stanley Cup Playoffs MVP.

McDavid becomes the first forward from a losing team to win the award since Philadelphia Flyers forward Reggie Leach won the award in 1976.

McDavid was not on the ice to accept the award, as he and his Oilers teammates had already departed the ice for their dressing room.

Read below for our earlier reports on this game, published as events occurred.

The Florida Panthers have won the Stanley Cup!

The Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final this evening, clinching the game with a courageous last minute defensive effort from

Check it out:

Read below for our earlier reports on this game, published as events occurred.

Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky may have just made the biggest save of his career. With the Panthers holding a 2-1 lead over the Edmonton Oilers late in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, Bobrovsky made this potential game saver:

UPDATE: Some words from Brady below.

Read below for our earlier reports on this game, published as events occurred.

Just moments after it looked like the Edmonton Oilers would take a 2-1 lead over the Florida Panthers in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, it's the Panthers who have tallied the go-ahead goal.

Panthers forward Sam Reinhart put his team up 2-1 with a bullet after his teammate Dmitri Kulikov saved a goal in the defensive zone.

Check it out:

2-1 Panthers!

Read below for our earlier reports on this game, published as events occurred.

Hold the phone! The Edmonton Oilers have tied things up thanks to a breakaway goal from forward Mattias Janmark!

Check it out:

Tie game!

Read below for our earlier report on the game's opening goal.

The Florida Panthers have struck first in Game 7!

After a lacklustre powerplay to open the game, forward Carter Verhaeghe managed to open the scoring with a beautiful tip in goal to give his team a 1-0 lead over the Edmonton Oilers this evening.

Check it out:

1-0 Cats early!