From crowd-surfing with the Stanley Cup to Dairy Queen: Inside Brad Marchand's post-title tour

It's been 14 years since Brad Marchand past had the accidental to enactment with the Stanley Cup. He's older and wiser -- successful the consciousness that helium won't beryllium getting a misspelled tattoo specified arsenic the "champians" 1 helium had inked with the Boston Bruins successful 2011.

But the antheral inactive knows however to observe a title -- successful the astir Brad Marchand of ways.

Here is however Marchand has enjoyed his triumph circuit truthful far.

Wednesday, Elbo Room, Fort Lauderdale

The Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup successful Game 6 connected Tuesday night, and needless to say, the solemnisation didn't extremity connected the ice. It continued successful the locker country and successful the luxury suites astatine Amerant Bank Arena successful Sunrise, Florida. The Cup would occasionally marque an quality backmost connected the crystal aboriginal Wednesday greeting for photos with friends and family.

But yet the enactment broke retired of the arena and into the remainder of South Florida -- akin to erstwhile skipper Aleksander Barkov rang the doorbells of his neighbors astir 5 a.m. to contiguous them with the Cup.

Later connected Wednesday morning, the Panthers continued the contented they started past play successful bringing the Cup to Elbo Room, a two-story dive barroom adjacent the formation successful Fort Lauderdale.

With quality helicopters flying overhead, they loaded brew into the apical of the Cup and poured it connected the fans below. When Marchand appeared connected the balcony, fans chanted "Thank You, Boston!" successful grant of the deadline commercialized that sent him to the Panthers.

Marchand was successful his constituent arsenic the players rolled done the municipality connected play carts.

He held a java and a vodka-based iced beverage portion successful 1 hand, a cigar successful another, a vessel of brew nether his limb with the Stanley Cup nuzzled by his knee.

Thursday, Maple & Ash, Miami

Marchand and the Panthers are known for their taunting, trolling and agitation connected the ice. Just due to the fact that the season's implicit doesn't mean Marchand isn't going to proceed to find caller wounds to shovel salt.

While the Panthers were celebrating their title with a squad meal astatine Maple & Ash successful Miami, Marchand added photos to his Instagram communicative that thanked each the teams who traded, released oregon allowed their players to permission to motion with Florida.

Marchand said the squad was sitting astatine meal and reminiscing astir however they each ended up arsenic Panthers.

"We each person our ain communicative astir possibly not being the happiest astir the concern astatine the time, but we each got here, whether by prime oregon not by choice," helium said. "It's truthful cliché, but everything happens for a reason. All those teams making atrocious decisions to get escaped of guys and our squad making unthinkable decisions to bring them each in, it each played a portion successful america winning the Cup."

Marchand posted a photograph of each teammate and mentioned the Instagram grip of their erstwhile teams. The Calgary Flames were thanked 3 times -- for guardant Matthew Tkachuk, AJ Greer and "Thanks for the MVP" for Conn Smythe victor Sam Bennett. He thanked the Winnipeg Jets for manager Paul Maurice and the Columbus Blue Jackets for GM Bill Zito. He thanked erstwhile Panthers GM Dale Tallon for the team's homegrown stars specified arsenic Barkov.

Some of Marchand's teammates past posted their ain photos of the winger, thanking the Bruins.

Friday (very early) morning, E11EVEN, Miami

To accidental the Panthers' enactment astatine this Miami nightspot was eventful would beryllium an understatement.

There was the infinitesimal Bennett revealed his intentions to stay with the Panthers connected a caller declaration up of escaped agency. There were vulgar chants directed towards Edmonton Oilers prima Connor McDavid, whose squad mislaid to Florida successful consecutive Stanley Cup Finals. The Panthers occupied the barroom to determination drinks for fans.

As for Marchand, helium erstwhile again managed to wed the euphoria of title occurrence with elite-level trolling: Crowd-surfing with the Stanley Cup portion the DJ played a remix of "Pink Pony Club," the Chappell Roan opus that served arsenic Edmonton's triumph solemnisation anthem during the postseason.

To chill Marchand off, it was clip for crystal cream.

Friday afternoon, Dairy Queen, Sunrise

The Panthers made tract trips to Dairy Queen arsenic portion of their postseason routine, starting during the Eastern Conference last against the Carolina Hurricanes. It became arsenic overmuch astir squad bonding arsenic it was hockey superstition.

Marchand became the look of their corporate saccharine tooth. During a postgame interrogation connected Canadian television, his comments near fans confused astir whether oregon not the spoonful of nutrient helium was seen eating betwixt periods was, successful fact, a Dairy Queen Blizzard. Instead, it was honey, thing Marchand has enjoyed since helium was a child, erstwhile helium fed it to his stuffed Winnie the Pooh doll.

"It's what we bash successful Halifax. We provender teddy bears honey," helium said.

But Marchand professed his emotion of Dairy Queen truthful often that they invited him to enactment the antagonistic successful Sunrise connected Friday. He brought retired a tray of Blizzards and adjacent did the DQ spoon trial for prime of thickness. Later, helium went to the backmost and made a fewer of his own.

Dairy Queen created the one-day-only "Brad Blizzard" sold astatine the edifice with cooky dough and cocoa chips.

"It's incredible, the moments that you look backmost on, and astatine the clip you don't admit what they could mean astatine the extremity of the day," Marchand said. "The archetypal clip we went to Dairy Queen, we conscionable wanted to locomotion disconnected our dinner, and it became a immense integrated moment. To the constituent wherever we met up earlier Game 6 due to the fact that we needed the luck."

They had the luck. They person the Cup. And arsenic Marchand showed much than anyone, they earned the party.