The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Big Friggin' Dave Bobrovsky

Episode Date: June 25, 2024

The celebrations continue as we go more in-depth on Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final including whether Edmonton Oilers coach, Chris Knoblauch, tired out his stars too much. Billy shares his experience at La Carreta last night celebrating the Florida Panthers and his thought process about whether or not to wake up his child to celebrate. Plus, we discuss where this ranks in the history of South Florida Sports, Roy slurring his words, the Lightning congratulating the Panthers for some reason and how much credit Greg Cote deserves for this win. Also, we hear from our hosts of The Hockey Show, David Dwork and Roy Bellamy, FROM THE ICE after the game as they chat with Aleksander Barkov and more Panthers after their victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries That if they're just there that hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it and now here's the marching man to nowhere fat-face and the habitual liar I loved this tweet last night from Ryan Clark because Yeah, sure the people who have been with the Panthers for 30 years are going to experience last night

the deepest and most emotionally, but a whole lot of people were gathered around the television last night, just because Maximum Sports was happening. And so Ryan Clark got into the fray, and I loved the way that he did when he tweeted, who stepped up tonight in a big way? Big friggin' Dave Bobrowski.

Oh no. That's okay, I mean. It is okay. It's totally allowed. Everybody's welcome here if you want to be a part of the party. It's just Bobrowski is not from a place where I don't think we call people Dave. Is it possible that Serge Sergey was autocorrected

on his phone to Dave? We don't even call him by his first name, we call him Bob. That is correct, but his first name is not Dave. That is incorrect, it is not Dave Bobrovsky. Sergey Bobrovsky. He was there by the way. He was there.

And so was Stephen A. Smith by the way. Was he really? Yes, he was in attendance. So you're saying there's not a lot of Daves in Russia. I'm just guessing that wherever it is Bobrovsky's from, not a whole lot of people are answering to Dave. Sergei Bobovkov! That's so good.

Charles knows his name now, though. Charles continues to show up at hockey events, and right now, the greatest thing that has happened locally since blank, since blank. Are we looking at 10 years it's been since this feeling was here? Are we looking at Ray Allen's shot as the last time that any of this felt like this locally

where Maximum Sports uh... the joy ride of uh... people don't like this team they're annoying i like this team people don't think it's interesting don't like the story lines haven't in fault fallen in love with the characters but i like the characters they're gritty they're tough uh... i like their story it's me against the United States and North America. It's when I say that I'm saying you're a fan of this team, it's you against everybody. And then as it grows, you go from up three oh two terrified and wild terrified. All you're

hearing for three games is, oh my God, this is McDavid's crowning. Here it comes. And it's what everybody wants. And you deny them it. And at the end, the Oilers are too tired to go get it. They're too exhausted. They looked like they were in sludge. It looked to me like that. That team, so very fast, so very terrifying,

they looked like the ice had melted under their feet because they were not moving fast at the end. In fairness to Ryan Clark, Dave is a very popular name in Russia. David. Always in the top 20. It's almost like it was a mistake that Knobloch played his top guys so much in say the first half of the third period as opposed to really saving for an onslaught the final five or six minutes because they had to puck the whole third period, you know? And if those guys had more energy, and I'm also stunned that they didn't pull Skinner until like a minute 20.

Way, way too late. I was shocked. Terrible job. Game seven. But that's a Panther's identity. We've said that aloud a bunch of times. Like, why isn't this goalie coming out? And it's because the Panthers are still occupying that neutral zone.

And you can't guarantee that there's going to be zone entry from Edmonton. No, but Edmonton had full control with like 220 left in the Panther zone. In the neutral zone, though, like they didn't get a rush going. And you have to hedge against like a breakaway going the other way. I understand why you didn't pull them. I think you should have pulled them. There was a moment there was a stoppage. Yeah

there was a stoppage in play where you should have absolutely pulled them. It was a timeout. They got no rest from their timeout. They didn't come out of the timeout with anything. Yeah. Roy you are still here even though the cup is at the elbow room and players are surrounding the cup at the elbow room. I'm assuming you're still here because all of MetalArk's resources are being poured into the Greg Cody victory lap. That is correct, sir. Okay, so will you be leaving shortly because I will say again, I'm going to say this. Kachuck has the cup on a golf cart right now. He's driving around Fort Lauderdale. Yes, I would like to be there with him and and Roy we have spent a lot of money and a lot

of time with you over the last few days. You flew Fort Lauderdale to Houston to Denver to Edmonton 16 hours. You flew Toronto to Montreal to Miami 13 hours. You flew Miami to Chicago to Calgary then drove to Edmonton for 11 hours and you flew Calgary to Charlotte to Miami for 11 hours and while you did all of that you saw your team outscored 13 to 2. You did all of that to watch the Panthers, allow 13 goals and score 2 goals. Now you got the cup 30 minutes away.

You don't have to go anywhere to go see your team outscored 13 to 2. It's just 30 minutes away. I think you should go get to wherever the cup is and give us live reports from the cup. Yeah, I could probably zoom from here. Can I? Yeah. Okay. I'll see you guys later. All right. Go get the cup. Tell Matthew I say hi. Yeah. Greg Cody might need to be on zoom too because our live view just died. Okay, that's good. And it charged it? No, there was some problems charging a battery

of some sort. That's why Greg Cody was just standing in the other room. It was a great shot though. While he was supposed to be in the victory lap. Not a lot of podcasts that are live can pull that off. I'm glad Stugance is laughing at that. So our batteries have run out and we can't get to the cup. You got the aerial view.

Yeah. My batteries died and I'm here Billy did you get outside were there people in your neighborhood banging pots and pans? Yeah, I went to like a red Obviously, what else am I gonna do and went there? I took a Look I swell a wooden spoon and I stood on the side of the road and I banged it as cars passed by Some USA chance that might have been about something else There was a guy driving, he was shooting fireworks out of the side of his car as he was driving,

one hand on the steering wheel, the other side on a Roman candle, just shooting. I learned that police are really just, I guess, trying to prevent rioting or violence, and all other laws go out the window. So you could put 80 people in the back of a pickup truck, and that doesn't matter. You can do whatever you want, run, jaywalk,

whatever you wanna do, you canaywalk, whatever you wanna do, you can do as long as you're not, I guess, doing damage to property or others. But were they fearing some sort of rioting on Calle Ocho because I don't believe that the police officers would be that interested in stopping much of anything there because I don't think there was a lot happening there. Well, no, there was a lot happening.

I was on Bird Road. There was a large police presence just making sure everybody was staying safe. They also blocked off some shopping centers so you wouldn't park there. But everybody was having a good time. It was a nice, safe, good time. Lots of pots and pans and banging

and screaming about how much we all love the Panthers on Bird Road, as you know. And that was it. We were celebrating, people shooting fireworks. There were some dogs there. It was a nice night, nice little night. That moment was captured by PLG and it was on the screens and I was around some like Panther bigwigs

and I pointed to the screen and I'm like, I can't believe they are celebrating a Stanley Cup championship in Westchester. To be honest with you, I was surprised too. As I was driving over there, like we were trying to figure out the route we were gonna take and I go, well, you know, at least it's the most popular team,

or the least popular team in town. Shouldn't be that bad in terms of traffic. There was a nice crowd though, I was surprised by the crowd. It wasn't a heat crowd, it was not a heat crowd. How many people, like we talking hundreds, thousands? Well so I, compare it to the people at the code. Not even hundreds, not even hundreds. Not even hundreds, it's not gonna be hundreds.

No, no, it was in the hundreds. It was in the hundreds and I will say this, I also left early, like I went, I checked in, I was there for 30, 45 minutes and then I left because my family stayed at home. Me and my wife had a discussion earlier in the night where I said, if we win, I'm gonna wake up the three-year-old and we're gonna go celebrate because I don't know when we're gonna do this again.

And she said, okay, yeah, we had that conversation. And then 11.30 or so came with about a minute and a half left and then I went into the room to wake up, said three year old. And she said, you're not waking up this three year old. What is wrong with you? She's gonna be scared. You're waking her up in the middle of the night,

taking her out of her slumber. Then you take her to loud noises. People are banging on pots and pans. She has no idea what's going on. She doesn't know this tradition of this town. People are gonna be screaming. There's gonna be dogs barking, fireworks. They're just gonna be on the side of the road.

This is gonna be very traumatic. You really married the perfect woman. I said, yeah, probably, but also, I don't know when this is gonna happen again. And then we started going over, and she didn't like this because this was at 12.30 when I got home. I started listening, and I go, let me tell you a story. 1997, the Marlins, they celebrated at La Carreta.

Before that, it was like 1973 or 1974 before there was a championship celebration. Now if we fast forward, sure, we go to 2003, there was another championship celebration, and then we didn't have one until 2006, and then we had to wait until what, 2012, and then 2013, and now we have to wait until 2024. And when I'm saying it out loud, it sounds like a very charmed life, because to be honest with you, in a span of what, 2012 and then 2013? And now we have to wait until 2024. And when I'm saying it out loud,

it sounds like a very charmed life. Because to be honest with you, in a span of what, 30 years, we've had six or seven of these championship celebrations. And I was completely discrediting my argument of, this could be another 30, I said, look, if we're just waiting on the Panthers, we waited what, 30, 31 years for this? At this pace, my daughter might be 34 years old

when they do this again. And she's gonna experience 34 years of her life without celebrating this if I don't take her tonight. That argument didn't work. I went by myself. Did all of this take that long? I mean. It took longer.

It took longer. She's like, can we go to sleep? It's 12, 30, because she was asleep when I got home. And it took longer. But I was trying to list all these things, of all these championships that we've had, and how much time there's in between. Mm-hmm.

That was a long story. Yeah. It's the only kind he tells. It was the short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the leagues cup. Yeah. La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations

has to be the 97 Marlins celebration, because it was Lovato and Andes. Well, when F until died the first time jimmy thank you uh... billy yes but i was talking about the ones that you mentioned your story didn't include fidel as for as long as it was there wasn't there was no first time that fidel died but he's right uh... but well no he's not right okay it's just long-winded but nineteen ninety seven levon hernandez is shouting in an accent i love you miami and and and so he was speaking the language of guy or chill

the heat championships got a bunch of people out there i'm stunned to hear that you stumbled out of your house could find no one in the surrounding areas to celebrate this with you and so you stumbled over to La Carreta with a daughter at 12. No, no, I wasn't allowed to take my daughter. But you were trying to. This is a very, you allowed at the house. When's the last time you left the house by yourself after midnight?

You are very maximum dad. You are not. Well, nothing good happens after midnight. My grandmother taught me that so I try not to if at all possible. And I left there around like 12, 25, 12, 30, and I'll tell you this, the streets were packed. Like when I was there, there was five, six blocks of traffic that was at a standstill, and it was getting pretty packed when I was leaving.

I got out of there before things started getting maximum crazy. Do we feel good about the attendance for whatever the parade's gonna be? Good compared to what? Not good if you're comparing it to the Celtics. We care to not being embarrassing that it's a hockey team in South Florida that won the Stanley Cup. I think the parade might be a little embarrassing if your comparison point is are Americans going to make fun of how small that parade looks? Right, that's what I'm wondering.

How it should look if it were in Edmonton. They're doing it on a weekend. At least that's what I'm being told. That's what's being reported right now. I don't like that on a Sunday. Don't give me a parade on a Saturday or Sunday. Thursday, Wednesday, Friday. But Saturday or Sunday, you can get people out who aren't

working. That's the way you got to do it. They want their Saturdays to themselves. All six of us will be there. All six of us will be there. I'm not going to parse what our parade route is is gonna look like. I don't give a shit Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is hot. It is damp It is summer and it's a perfect time for grilling outside over an open flame or charcoal grill or propane

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Don LeBattard. You have some hot takes today. Joe Chestnut's a fraud. Oh, he's on fire. He called Connor McDavid overrated before the show. What the hell was that Greg? I love it. Stugats. Roy, let me explain it to you. You know more about hockey than I do.

And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times. Right. If that. Um. This is the Dunn-Levatar Show with the Stugats. People are asking how they celebrate this with the team. There's a crowd gathering.

The Elbow Room is the place to celebrate. There is a room. We actually, we have a reporter out there and he sent us in a video, if you guys wanna put up the video of the elbow room. Kachucks out there, it looks like a doozy of a time. All right, yes, the elbow room is. Look, at least six of us.

Yes, look at that. Look at the festivities there. Monster event there, the cup is there. There are dozens of people there in the morning. I do think that Stugatz when he says put it on a weekday, he's got it all wrong. You put it on a weekday, South Floridians have to work, you will get no one at that parade. There will be no one there on a weekday. Weekend is your only chance to get a crowd that feels like a giant championship

celebration. They almost have to do it on Sunday because there's so many, the hockey calendar is so weird. There's so much off season stuff that needs to be done in like the next 72 hours. And there's a draft over the weekend. So I don't think they can actually celebrate with their entire staff until the draft is over on Saturday. That's why they're reportedly landing on that Sunday.

So the guy that's the keeper of the cup, you know, the guy with the gloves, he follows the cup all the time. The guy with the 80s haircut. Yeah, he follows the cup all the time. So he like hasn't been to bed, he's got to go with them to elbow room and it's like, can we go to sleep? Like he just has to stay with all the partying. He's so tired right now, but he's at elbow room. I was thinking in all sports that has to be the greatest job title. Keeper of the cup. What a great job title. I mean, it's amazing. I feel like just you get to a point where

it's like, all right, have we had enough to drink, you know, the last 24 hours? He's a big celebrity. I saw him around the lower bone. So he was getting pulled aside. People yelling, Phil, you took a million photos. They have two or three guys who do that. He doesn't have to be with the cup all the time, otherwise he would never sleep. Right, that's what I'm saying. No, he does, there's multiple cups.

They have multiple cups, yeah. There are multiple cups with multiple people, guarding multiple cups. We're new to hockey down here, but anyway, Dan, imagine if someone says to you, hey, what do you do for a living? And you pull out a business card and it says keeper of the cup.

It's pretty good. Did you guys see the piece right before? You guys are at the game, obviously you didn't see it. But did you see the piece before where he was talking about, they did a whole thing about throwing off the gloves and they show all the teams throwing off the gloves. Yeah, so cool. And then they show Phil and Phil keeps all of his gloves.

I guess he gets one set of gloves every year. Then he lays them out and thinks, there's so much history. And I'm like, no, those are dirty gloves. Like, let's be real. Probably stinky. It's true, dirty, stinky gloves. I'm like, no, those are dirty gloves. Let's be real. Probably stinky. It's true. Dirty, stinky gloves.

A bit of a hoarder, Phil. I mean, a lot of history is dirty and stinky. Phil collects hair, right? Phil collects hair. Potentially. He's a hoarder. I guess you would have some expertise spotting hoarders being among them.

What does that mean? I don't collect hair. For the record, I don't collect hair. I mean, you can. Everything else. Can we go through your car right now and see what you have collected in your car? I have about 16 years of show logs in the back of my car

that I put in my trunk after we moved from the Clelander. And my wife, who said you can't take this three year old out at midnight also said you cannot bring those show logs into this house. Billy, were you trying, in all sincerity, because I know you don't do the syrup very much around here, but when they won a championship, were you trying to give your daughter,

who is still in some formative years that is unlikely to remember a championship celebration, some of the things in your childhood that made you a Marlins fan because you're trying to pass them down to her actively? I don't know, pass the Panthers down, you know what I mean, but I'll say this, see, they win a championship. I thought about the Boy Meets World episode, you know,

when Corey's dad- With Vader? Huh? Oh. Which one? With Vader. No, that was a good episode, though. File. Yeah. I was thinking of the episode where Corey's dad woke him up to watch a Phillies no-hitter, and it was a formative thing for him,

and I was like, wow, Corey, are you gonna, whatever Corey's dad's name is, Corey's dad, as far as I'm concerned, you're gonna wake him up for this? Like, he thing for him and I was like wow Corey are you gonna whatever Corey's dad's name is Corey's dad as far as I'm concerned you're gonna wake him up for this like he has school tomorrow I was like there's a no hitters every week like well now there is but back in the time of Boy Meets World that was a special thing that we cherished and I said you know what this could be my Corey's no hitter with my daughter but she had no idea what was going on. Alan Matthews. Did you ever watch Girl Meets World? I didn't I mean I know that's Sabrina Carpenter,

the Girl with the Espresso song? Really? I have a meaning to catch up on Girl Meets World. That's a catchy little ditty. Song of the Summer, they're saying. A three-year-old at midnight doesn't seem like. She's two years away from writing letters to Sidney Crosby. My Abu, my dad was watching Juliet,

and Juliet watched the entire game, and she recognized what was going on. It was in that moment that I was like, well, now I wish she was here, if she knew what was going on. How did your decision get made at the last minute after spending too much money on game five to get to game seven?

I asked him earlier in the day if he was going. He said he wasn't going. But how many game seven opportunities did he get? Nobody said he couldn't afford it. He said no. But how many games, seven opportunities you get to get. Nobody said he couldn't afford it. I understand that. I was priced out. I was priced out. But then I opened up the Game Time app, folks.

And I saw prices. They call them flash deals. And it was on the shoot one side, but it was also about $500 cheaper than the price that I paid for game five. And game five, I got to tell you, one of the worst purchases I've ever made in my entire life. There's no coming back from that. Oh, you thought they were going to win that third period though. You thought.

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guaranteed there is no more loyal customer of Game Time than I am. They must love me. I just got a text from my friend saying, Chuckie just poured beer into my mouth from the cup from the balcony. This is heaven. Maybe let's get your friend to zoom in,

because we can't get any correspondence there or working technology. So let's just die or somebody in the street who's actually near doing the job we need done. Roy was slurring through all of his reports last night. Roy can't handle his liquor. We're now that's true That's another thing we drag a lot of liquor God so God's I am now clear on the fact that Roy cannot handle his liquor

He does not know how to drink an appropriate amount that makes him not slur Like am I wrong about this but it was game 7 no but it doesn't have to be game 7 once he starts with the drinking yeah he doesn't have control of how much to drink he doesn't have a let's play the opening line of this video here from Amarin Becker. Wow. Jesus, Roy. He doesn't know how to do it.

He does not know how to drink. I'm so happy for this guy. He fancies himself a drinker. That's a great start to the video. One more time, one more time. We've made it from Amarin Becker, and to the infield, which is a couple of blocks down. Celebrate, celebrate, championship.

We are going to celebrate a Stanley Cup Championship! There are some marbles in that mouth. That bar looks like it's great if you're wrong. Chris, what did you get into last night? How much of you slept? I got home at 3am. I went to the quarter-deck right by the arena, and it was a lot more exciting than the bar Roy was at. It was great. The place was packed, it was exciting, there were sad Oilers fans, I got to point and laugh at. I saw, by the way, I knew we were winning this game,

I saw an Oilers fan puking in the parking lot before the game, and I'm telling you, it changed my entire mood. I was feeling down, I was just like, I'm trying to talk myself into being excited for this game. I saw an Oilers fan pu fan, because they were feeling themselves. These Oilers fans before the game were too excited. Like they packed Yard House at Sagres.

Oh my god, look at all the Oilers fans here. How about it's 2 p.m. in the afternoon, we have jobs. We didn't fly here to go to the game. Of course it's all Oilers fans across the street. They care about hockey. But I'm telling you you that switched my mood. I told the group chat, I was like, guys, I think we got this. I just saw an oilers fan puke and I heckled him like I was in my early 20s.

I was like, ah, you loser. That was great. You guys don't really have the right given how you were behaving the first six hours before the game, you looked like you were going to puke. You and Mike both looked like you were gonna puke. I don't believe that you got there and like, that guy's throwing up in the parking lot, that means we're gonna win.

No, but when you feel like you're gonna puke and you see someone else puke Dan, then your feeling for puking, it goes away. It did change my mood. I'm telling you, that's how it works. So guys, you weren't here. Yesterday was me and Renee Montgomery keeping everything on track. Like no one else thought that the Panthers are just shot except me and Renee That's a terrible job by you guys should be ashamed of yourselves all of you. It would have been embarrassed

Yeah, it means it means a lot coming from you guys To the bone let me tell you did what we had to do for the Panthers to win We had the right we had the attitude we needed to have. Pulling every lever, buddy. Every lever. Oh, you're going to take credit now. Superstition masterclass. Okay. All right. You're going to take credit for that. I did what I did. I controlled what I could control to win that cup. I brought it home. You should be embarrassed in general. Oh, I was nervous before game seven, in which my team had lost three straight.

No, you said they were gonna lose. Yeah, that's right, buddy. I gotta, cause I gotta. You gotta pull every lever possible. I sent him a text in the middle of the day. I said, we're gonna do this tonight, right? And he texted me back, goes, no evidence of that. No evidence.

Wow, terrible job. That was one of the levers. You're welcome. You're welcome. Greg Cody, yes, yes, of course. No evidence. Wow, terrible job. That was one of the levers. You're welcome. Mm-hmm. You're welcome. Greg Cody, yes, yes, of course. Thank you, Mike. We should all be chanting thank you, Mike,

for your profound belief in this team. Well, we gotta thank the guy that gave Mike the internship, if you remember that story. My profound belief as opposed to your guys' profound belief. I mean, mine was clear. And performative. Mine never changed, never once changed. I wasn't flopping around like a dead fish on a boat.

Yeah, I was. I mean, it meant that much to me. I definitely did. It was my life. Yeah. You're right about game seven. And I just wanted, I saw, I was so envious. I was so envious of the game.

You always want those. You always want the game seven. He owns that take. I was envious of the vibes that the Oilers fans brought into that game and people were talking nonsense to me and I couldn't muster up a comeback or anything like that, but I just wanted, if anything happens in this game, you feel how I feel right now. You feel that anger, you feel that despair, you feel like, oh my god, we're this close and it's not gonna happen. I just wanted them to make them feel that. And they felt it,

and then they choked the game away, and they lost to a team that didn't play particularly well offensively in the biggest game. They didn't choke it away, we took that shit. What do you mean they choked it away? No, no, no, I'm saying like the vice-like grip that we had on that game, like literally choked the life out of that game That's what I mean. It was interesting to see the Panthers Take the state and the style from Tampa take all of it. You see Tampa Bay Congratulated us Dan. I don't know how I feel about that. We'll tell you I feel I don't need your congratulations I'm on my team. I'm out of here. Send you home again next year.

Up yours. End your season every year I hope. Up yours. At Tampa Bay Lightning, up yours. I'll be damned if you ever catch me congratulating them. Never. What kind of world are we living in? Greg Cody has returned after his victory parade.

How was it, Greg? I thought you were gonna join us from McDonald's. I don't know what happened. I don't either. You know, I'm not in charge. That's above my pay grade. The victory, I don't know what it looked like in the video, but the crowds were really gathering. You know, I mean, they were three or four deep on the side of the road. I worried that it was going to be a traffic hazard for a bit, but we got through it.

But the response was great. I mean, nobody celebrates the championship of a team from Sunrise like downtown Miami. Congratulations. Thank you. It was great. Thank you. Thank you. And by the way, you'll remember, you can roll the tape if you want. I guarantee last night's win.

I guarantee it. All of the real... You can't take credit for it. Mike's already taken credit for it. You can't have any of the credit. Mike's already taken all the credit. I mean, I get the ultimate credit because I muted their best player. You don't get any of the credit because Mike's got all the credit. Yeah, well, that's Mike, you know.

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guaranteed. Dan Lebatard. There is no question Dan Lebatard show included anybody else that this guy is the best player on the planet whether he wins the Stanley Cup or the Cotsmite this year there is no question about it. Anybody else that this guy is the best player on the planet whether he wins the Stanley Cup or the Cotsmite this year There is no question about it. Stugats Overrated wait, yeah Overrated, what's going on? Dan Lebatard, how you doing?

Living in an altered world or what? Oh my goodness This is the Dan Lebatard show with the Stugats show with the Stugarts. Santa come change it says on the board. The cups over there somewhere. It says all around the ribbon board. The final score two to one. The Florida Panthers won it in a style that they have mastered all season.

You said it. What was it? What did they do? Shutdown city and the third period. that they have mastered all season. You said it. You said it. What was it? What did they do? Shut down city in the third period. They completely shut this team down in the third period. All right. What's just thrown at me.

We're here with Kevin Salem and you guys have played your asses off all playoffs. You made it to seven games here in the Stanley Cup finals. Give us your feelings right now. Oh, unbelievable. It's hard to describe. It's been a long journey, but we're in it now, and we're really going to enjoy it.

That was the same. We're with Panthers captain Alexander Bogov. You just raised the Stanley Cup. Can you believe that? I guess we're champions, right? I guess so. Give us your feelings. How you feel right now? Unbelievable. Well, you dream about this moment your whole life since you were born when you get your first skates on

and first time you touch the stick you dream about this and to be able to do it with this organization, this team and here in front of our own fans, it's unbelievable feeling. Makes the last couple of weeks a little bit more worth it that you got to celebrate at home and everything you went through, it kind of makes everything that much better now, right? Yeah, I mean, with this team,

we never find the easy way to do it. So, well, it took us to game seven to do it, and we're probably played our best game in game seven this is amazing and i'm proud of you as a panthers fan i'm proud of you as a member of the medium i'm so happy to see that you actually got to do this so congratulations to you and alexander we're here with jeremy tachay of bali sports florida they just want to stand like up jeremy just want to say look up this is the coolest thing that's ever happened. We're on the ice.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. It's happening. It's all happening. It's all happening. You got the good seat up there in the press box, whoever it is. So, you took my seat, god damn it. I did. I took Roy's seat for the entirety

of this playoff run. And I would like to say I should probably sit in that seat for every playoff run for the rest of our lives. I agree. Based off the way that this went, I apologize. But you've got to sit auxiliary. I sit there because the Panthers won the fucking Stanley Cup.

Yeah, baby. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you saying that the Stanley Cup is all because of you? I would like to take my place where the credit is due, after Greg, after Roy, but above some others, above some others, and just say go Ice Cats. Thank you.

We got Stephen Lawrence and Anthony Stollaws, everybody. You boys just won the Stanley Cup. How do you feel? There's no real words for it right now. So just trying to enjoy the moment. It's been a long time, a long season for us. We grind it, we earned this. We didn't deserve it.

We earned it every step of the way. And it wasn't easy at times, but here we are. All right, Phil and Anthony. Pretty damn good right now. So just a real moment just to be able to share it with everybody on the team, guys that, you know, work so hard during the year, training camp regular season, and what, 25 games of playoffs or whatever it was. So it's been a long year and just to see all that hard

work pay off. It's all worth it. Just want to say congrats, fellas, from one goalie to another, from a guy to another guy. I don't know what to say. I'm just f***ing pumped right now. another from a guy to another guy. I don't know what to say. I'm just f****** pumped right now. Boys, congratulations. We're here with Stanley C. Panthers, the Florida Panthers. This is a championship mascot. How you feel right now, Stanley? Yes. We're both over Morongo and you have finally got yourself a Stanley Cup ring coming your

way. How's it feel? Pretty good, man. It feels pretty good. The Luongo game is going on the cup. I know. Honestly, it's so surreal. That's what's going on right now.

I mean, since the second I came on the ice and just seeing the boys with the cup, it's everything I would imagine more. So I'm so proud of these guys. You know, they worked so hard all year from the first day of training camp, you know, after a long season the year before they put in the work and you could tell this year going into the playoffs and it was a different vibe around the team. I think, I think the added motivation tonight was from you drumming. Yeah, I know. I mean, that was the best drumming effort of the playoffs. You were so into it.

I got jacked up way the hell up there. Yeah, I had a lot of emotions in the law over the last 10 days. I needed to let out. So I want to make sure that I got it all out so I could go relax in the suite and watch the game. Since you've taken over the franchise, you made this a first class organization. And you guys just have a new practice facility and everything.

Now you're a Stanley Cup champion. How do you feel? I feel very happy for the fans we're looking at. I feel very happy for South Florida. I feel very, very happy for the community. I feel blessed, truly blessed. Great, great. Our organization, it's character-based, family-based. I feel humbled. I feel more humility tonight than I can express, really. It's how I feel. It's how to feel good, kind of building on what you just said, knowing that you guys did it the right way.

We did it the right way. Family hires, you brought in Matty Caldwell. It took an extended period to hire Billy. Yeah. You looked for Paul, just all the right moves. So it's how to feel good to know that, like, you guys took your time, you did it right, and now look at what we're doing. Yeah. You look for Paul, just all the right moves. So it's gotta feel good to know that like you guys took your time, you did it right. And now look at what we're doing. Yeah.

I mean, with South Florida, champions forever, Stanley Cup never leaves. So South Florida, God bless the fans. God bless the people. God bless the community. And thank you. Well, we've interviewed as many people as we could. And so is yeah, we soaked it up. It's a joyous occasion here at ice level here at Amherst Bank Arena as the Florida Panthers have won the Stanley Cup, David.

Yeah, I am blown away. It's just kind of starting to sink in looking around all the championship banner. I mean, we've been trying to soak it in as you can see We're like the last ones here. We don't want to leave like I'm fine sleeping here. Like this is this is so cool We're gonna get the fans reaction at the infield Yeah, we gotta go to the bar and we're gonna have to have drinks But before we leave the ice tonight, we do have a very special message for a certain individual who renounced his fanship of the Florida Panthers, that is Chris Runningham,

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