Florida Panthers win the 2025 Stanley Cup Champions
Cheers,Florida Panthers Fans,Florida Panthers wins the 2025 Stanley Cup Champions, and now it's time to celebrate.
The Florida Panthers flew off the bench, jumped for joy and mobbed one another as the fans roared. They dominated the Edmonton Oilers in a 5-1 victory, defeating them in the Cup Final for the second straight season and repeating as champions.
“It’s harder than I ever imagined to win the Stanley Cup once, and twice was even harder, so yeah, it’s a huge honor to be a part of this group,” said forward Sam Bennett, who led the Stanley Cup Playoffs with 15 goals and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player. “I’m not going to take it for granted. I love being here, and I love this team. It’s a remarkable team to be a part of.”
The Panthers have established themselves as one of the elite teams of the salary cap era (since 2005-06). They have put themselves in the class of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who won the Cup back-to-back in 2020 and 2021. The Los Angeles Kings won it twice in three years, in 2012 and 2014.
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The question now is whether the Panthers can become a dynasty. No team has won the Cup three years in a row in the cap era, and only two teams have won it three times. The Pittsburgh Penguins won it in 2009, 2016 and 2017; the Chicago Blackhawks won it in 2010, 2013 and 2015.
“That’s the standard of excellence,” owner Vincent Viola said. “There’s no other course but seeking and winning the championship. There’s no other course. Everybody knows that, and they’re all committed to it.”
Florida is positioned well for the future, even though four key players can become unrestricted free agents July 1: Bennett, forward Brad Marchand and defensemen Aaron Ekblad and Nate Schmidt.
Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky is signed through next season, and an excellent core is locked up for the long term: forwards Aleksander Barkov (five more seasons), Anton Lundell (five), Sam Reinhart (seven), Matthew Tkachuk (five) and Carter Verhaeghe (eight), and defensemen Gustav Forsling (seven) and Seth Jones (five).
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This was Florida’s third straight trip to the Cup Final. The Panthers have played 313 games in the regular season and playoffs combined over the past three seasons, and that doesn’t count the 4 Nations Face-Off.
As Tkachuk spoke on the ice, he was surrounded by friends, family and fans.
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Back-to-back?
“It’s insane,” he said. “I can’t believe it. It’s the most special trophy in the world, and what we did to get to this moment, it’s so well deserved for the whole group. We deserve this. It was a grind, and I’m so happy. What we’ve done the last three years, not many teams have done. It’s very impressive.”
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