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The Florida Panthers won back-to-back Stanley Cups aft winning Game 6 implicit the Edmonton Oilers, 5-1, connected Tuesday night.
As 1 would expect, a enactment ensued astatine Amerant Bank Arena, and it lasted each nighttime agelong for players and fans alike.
However, what skipper Aleksander Barkov did successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday greeting is 1 of the funniest Stanley Cup stories of each time.
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Florida Panthers halfway Aleksander Barkov, #16, hoists the Stanley Cup aft winning crippled six of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final against the Edmonton Oilers astatine Amerant Bank Arena. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)
A Ring camera successful Barkov’s improvement caught him going location to house, showing his neighbors the Stanley Cup. Yes, helium brought it location with him.
Panthers GM Bill Zito made an quality connected ESPN’s "The Pat McAfee Show," wherever helium shared that Barkov was walking astir his vicinity astatine 5 a.m. with Lord Stanley’s Cup.
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"Apparently, helium went location astatine similar 5 successful the greeting to alteration and cleanable up earlier they kept going," Zito told the show. "And walked astir the his vicinity and banged connected everyone’s beforehand door. ‘Hey, you privation java with the Cup?’"
The Stanley Cup has been virtually everyplace implicit the years, particularly with each subordinate and manager getting a time with it earlier the caller play begins.
Florida Panthers halfway Aleksander Barkov, #16, controls the puck against the Edmonton Oilers during the 2nd play successful crippled 5 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final astatine Rogers Place. (Sergei Belski-Imagn Images)
So, portion Barkov’s communicative is not the craziest concern the Cup has been in, it is inactive a amusive 1 arsenic helium wanted to stock the solemnisation with everyone helium could, adjacent his neighbors.
Barkov, present a two-time Stanley Cup champion, had 2 assists successful the Game 6 rout of the Oilers, including the cleanable walk to Sam Reinhart connected his 2nd of 4 goals connected the night. That extremity gave Florida a commanding 3-0 pb successful the 2nd period.
The Panthers person played to the constituent wherever the dynasty speech has travel up, and Barkov is 1 of galore superstars connected the roster that volition instrumentality for the 2025-26 season.
Florida Panthers halfway Aleksander Barkov, #16, hoists the Stanley Cup aft winning crippled six of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final against the Edmonton Oilers astatine Amerant Bank Arena. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)
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However, mentation for 3 titles successful a enactment volition surely come. For now, Barkov and the remainder of his teammates are keeping the enactment going, and helium intelligibly wants everyone involved.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
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