The Abbotsford Canucks and Charlotte Checkers will meet in the best-of-seven Calder Cup Finals.

If you’re playing hockey in June, you’ve had a long season. And if you’re still working your way back from bilateral hip surgery two years ago, the road has felt even longer. 

The American Hockey League has announced that SiriusXM NHL Network Radio will be airing the 2025 Calder Cup Finals on SiriusXM 91.

Will Lockwood has five goals in his last 10 postseason games, and is on an expiring two-year contract with the parent Florida Panthers. If that isn’t incentive enough, the former Vancouver Canucks draft pick will be facing his former club in the Calder Cup Finals.

No matter what happens over the next week or two, a Surrey, B.C, raised player will become a Calder Cup champion as Arshdeep Bains and Jujhar Khaira of the Abbotsford Canucks will face Justin Sourdif and the Charlotte Checkers.

The 2025 Calder Cup Finals will get underway Friday night at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C., as the Eastern Conference champion Charlotte Checkers take on the Western Conference champion Abbotsford Canucks.

Florida hasn’t owned many high selections in recent NHL drafts, but their young prospects in Charlotte have been surrounded by an impressive cast of teammates – many of whom are taking advantage of their second (or more) career chance.

The Eastern Conference champion Charlotte Checkers will meet the winner of the Western Conference Finals between Abbotsford and Texas in the 2025 Calder Cup Finals, with Game 1 set for Friday, June 13, at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C.

Charlotte Checkers forward Riley Bezeau has been suspended for one (1) game as a consequence of an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Calder Cup Playoff game vs. Laval on June 3.

The Charlotte Checkers are heading to the 2025 Calder Cup Finals after capturing the Richard F. Canning Trophy as the American Hockey League’s Eastern Conference champions with a 3-2 victory over Laval on Tuesday.