Showing posts with label The Stanley Cup Finals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Stanley Cup Finals. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Florida Panthers WIN STANLEY CUP AGAIN! BACK 2 BACK!


After decades of not smelling the finals, and being sort of looked at as being mismanaged the Florida Panthers have become South Florida's best ran franchise and it's the teams second Stanley Cup win and this is back to back folks. The Panthers have topped the Oilers to win the Stanley Cup for a second straight year.

Florida Panthers win second straight Stanley Cup in a 5-1 romp, led by Sam Reinhart's four goals. Aleksander Barkov accepts the Stanley Cup and that group picture looks fantastic! Now if you don't follow the sport and you're from Florida it shouldn't matter just enjoy the victory and let it be a way to learn the sport, and become a fan as the sport is great, and this is an ownership that cares. Thank you guys for doing what you have done to bring these two finals wins together. 

Yes not just did they win it back to back but both times against the Oilers (Sorry Neroke 5) and how sweet and bizarre it is that a team in Florida can rise up and beat a Canadian team. This isn't the first team to win two champion ships since the 90's as the Florida Marlins did it also before re branding into the Miami Marlins. This took place when the new Stadium build. Long story.

But they did it in 97/03 and not back to back like this and not with this sort of dominance. This team is ready for a possible run as a real Dynasty. 

Over his 28 years and 10 pro teams, A.J. Greer had never seen anything like it. Flash back to Oct. 5, Quebec City: The fourth-line journeyman and one of the latest Florida Panthers reclamation projects assumed the reigning Stanley Cup champions would sleep their way through the final pre-season game. Save the good stuff for later. Hey, that’s what his previous teams would do. “Play some soccer, have a coffee, get on the ice,” Greer recalls.

But, nah, that’s not how these Cats roll. “There were 22 guys working out full workouts before the game. It’s like we didn’t even have a game. Guys were doing power lifting. Lower body, upper body, bike sprints before the game, and I’m thinking to myself: They’re dialed in here,” Greer continues. “It did surprise me at first, and I thought to myself: OK, maybe this will just be a one-month thing, and we might have a drop-off. There was no drop-off. That’s the culture I’m talking about. There’s no drop-off. “They won the Cup, and they were just as hungry this year to win another one.”

Hope they don't break this core up and let them continue to destroy the NHL. So once again congrats to them and the owner for this historic win.