The Big Suey: Big Friggin' Dave Bobrovsky
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Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to 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 if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching band 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 love the way that he did when he tweeted, who stepped up tonight in a big way. Big friggin' day.

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

It'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 gives you the joy ride of...

People don't like this team. They're annoying. I like this team. People don't think it's interesting. Don't like the storylines. Haven't fallen in love with the characters, but I like the characters. They're gritty. They're tough. 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, it's,

You go from up 3-0 to terrified, and while 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 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. Yeah.

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. I was shocked. I was shocked with that. But that's a Panthers 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, they didn't get a rush going, and you have to hedge against a breakaway going the other way. I understand why he didn't pull them. I think he should have pulled them. Obviously now. Yeah, there was a stoppage in play where he 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.

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 Metal Ark's resources are being poured into the Greg Cody victory lap. That is correct, sir.

Okay, so will you be leaving shortly? You can Zoom. I will say again, I'm going to say this. Kachuk 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 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 13-2. You did all of that to watch the Panthers allow 13 goals and score two goals. Now you got the cup 30 minutes away.

You don't have to go anywhere to go see your team outscored 13-2. 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. 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. They didn't charge it? No, there were 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. He was supposed to be in the victory lap. Not a lot of podcasts that are live can pull that off. I'm glad Stugatz is laughing at that. I'm sorry. So our batteries have run out. We can't get to the cup. You got the aerial view. Yeah. My battery's died, and I'm here.

Billy, did you get outside? Were there people in your neighborhood banging pots and pans? Yeah, I went to La Carreta, obviously. What else am I going to do? I went there. I took a little cazuela, a wooden spoon, and I stood on the side of the road, and I banged it as cars passed by. Some USA chants. 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, you know, violence and all other laws go out the window. So like 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, whatever you want to 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...

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 it was around some like...

Panther bigwigs and I pointed to the screen 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's a nice crowd though I was surprised by the car it wasn't a heat crowd it

It was not. How many people? Like, we talking hundreds? Well, so I compare it to the people at the Cody. No, no, it was 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, you know, 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, you know, if we win, I'm going to wake up the three-year-old and we're going to go celebrate because I don't know when we're going to do this again. And she said, okay, yeah, we had that conversation. And then 1130 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 going to 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 going to be screaming there's gonna be dogs barking fireworks you're just gonna be on the side of the road like this is gonna be very traumatic you really married the perfect woman

I said, yeah, like probably, but also, I don't know when this is going to happen again. And then we started going over, and she didn't like this because this was like at 1230 when I got home. I started listening. 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, 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 going to 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? It took longer. It took longer. She's like, can we go to sleep? It's 1230 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 is in between. Mm-hmm.

That was a long story. Yeah. It's the only kind he tells. Here's a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the League's Cup. Yeah. La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration because it was Levon Hernandez. Well, when Fidel died the first time. Shouting, thank you, Billy. Yes, but I was talking about the ones that you mentioned. Your story didn't include Fidel. For as long as it was, there was no first time that Fidel died. But he's right.

But, well, no, he's not right. He's just long-winded. 1997, LeVon Hernandez is shouting in an accent, I love you, Miami. And so he was speaking the language of Calle Ocho. The Heat Championships got a bunch of people out there. I'm stunned to hear that...

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 1230. 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, 1230. 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 going to be? Good compared to what? Not good if you're comparing it to the Celtics? No, compared 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 Augusta.

Are Americans going to make fun of how small that parade looks versus 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 going to look like.

I don't give a shit.

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Official sleep and wellness partner of the NFL. See store for details. Don Levitard. 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? Yeah, no. I love it. Stugatz. 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. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.

People are asking how they celebrate this with the team. There's a crowd gathering. The Elbow Room is the place to celebrate. Actually, we have a reporter out there, and he sent us in a video. If you guys want to put up the video of the Elbow Room, Kachuk's out there. It looks like a doozy of a time. All right. Yes, the Elbow Room is... 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 celebrating.

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 offseason stuff that needs to be done in 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, 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 hasn't been to bed. He's got to go with them to elbow room. And it's like, can we go to sleep? 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 you get to a point where it's like, all right, have we had enough to drink the last 24 hours? He's a big celebrity. I saw him around the lower bowl. He was getting pulled aside. People yelling, Phil. He took a million photos. Yeah.

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. Spoiler alert. 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 up gloves. 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 he's like, there's so much history. 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 could.

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 he 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 am.

I don't know if they're going to pass the Panthers down. You know what I mean? But I'll say this. They win a championship. I thought about the Boy Meets World episode, you know, when Corey's dad. Huh? 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. Oh, yeah.

And it was a formative thing for him. And it was like, wow, Corey, are you going to, whatever Corey's dad's name is, Corey's dad, as far as I'm concerned, you're going to wake him up for this? Like, he has school tomorrow. I was like, there's a no-hitter. No-hitters every week. 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. You know that 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 dad was watching Juliet, and Juliet watched the entire game, and she recognized what was going on. Yeah.

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 5 to get to Game 7? I asked him earlier in the day if he was going. He said he wasn't going. He said no. But how many Game 7 opportunities are you going 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. Oh, boy. 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. Oh, you thought they were going to win that third period, though. You thought. Yeah.

Just a terrible buy. But I checked the GameTime app and I saw a price that worked for my budget. I don't really know how I'm going to pay for it yet, but I'll worry about that later. And if you're like me and you have an opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the biggest hockey game of all time, why don't you download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code DAN.

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Let's get your friend to zoom in because we can't get any correspondence there or working technology, so let's just die on 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. Is that true? That's a known thing? We drank a lot of liquor last night. Stugatz, 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.

Am I wrong about this? But it was game seven. No, but it's just liquor, though. No, but Stugatz, it doesn't have to be game seven. Once he starts with the drinking, he doesn't have control of how much to drink. He doesn't have a governor. Let's play the opening line of this video here. All right, we have made it from Amber and Peg and Rain. Oh, 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 was a great start to the video.

One more time. One more time. We've made it from Amerenbeck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down. Celebrate! We celebrate! Championship! We are going to celebrate a Stanley Cup championship. I've never heard of some.

marbles in that mouth. That bar looks like it's great if you're drunk. Chris, what did you get into last night? How much have you slept? I got home at 3 a.m. 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 Oiler fans. I got to

point and laugh at i saw by the way and i knew we were winning this game i saw an oiler fan puking in the parking lot before the game and i'm telling you it changed my entire mood that's right 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 because they were they were feeling themselves these oilers fans before the game were too excited they packed yard house at saugras oh my god look at all the oiler fans here how about

out 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 Euler fans across the street they care about hockey but I'm telling 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 I

It 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 going to puke. I don't believe that you got there and like, that guy's throwing up in the parking lot. That

means we're going to win. No, but when you feel like you're going to puke and you see someone else puked in, then your feeling for puking, it goes away. I'm telling you, that's how it works. You guys, you weren't here. Yesterday, it was me and Renee Montgomery keeping everything on track. No one else thought that the Panthers would have shot except me and Renee. That's a terrible job by you guys. You should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you. You would have been embarrassed. It means a lot coming from you guys. It really cuts me down to the bone, let me tell you. We did what we had to do for the Panthers to win.

We had the right attitude. We had the attitude we needed to have. Pulling every lever, buddy. Every lever. 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. All right. I controlled what I could control to win that cup. I brought it home. Uh,

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 going to lose. Yeah, that's right. Buddy, I got to. Because I got to. You got to pull every lever possible. I sent him a text in the middle of the day. I said...

we're going to do this tonight, right? And he texts back and goes, no evidence of that. No evidence. Zero. That was one of the levers. You're welcome. You're welcome. Greg Cody, yes, yes, of course. Thank you. We should all be chanting thank you, Mike, for your profound belief in this team. Oh, we got to 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. Never.

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 7. And I just wanted – I was so envious. I was so envious. You always want those. You always want the Game 7. He owns that take. I was envious of the vibes that the Oilers fans brought

Yeah.

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

that. I'll tell you, I feel I don't need your congratulations. You're on my team. Get out of here. Send you home again next year. Up yours. End your season every year, I hope. 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 going to join us from McDonald's. I don't know what happened. I don't either. 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. We felt it. 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. Congratulations. Thank you. It was great. There you go.

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. Okay. I guaranteed 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 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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This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugats.

The Stanley Cup championship says on the board, the cup's over there somewhere. It says it 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? Shut down City in the third period. They completely shut this team down in the third period.

All right, what's your stone at me? We're here with Kevin Sillin 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 here now and we're really going to enjoy it. That was insane. That was insane. We're here with Panthers captain Alexander Barkov. You just raised the Stanley Cup. Can you believe that?

I guess we're champions, right? I guess so! Give us your feelings. How do 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 an 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 probably played our best game in game seven. This is amazing, man. 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, Alexander. We're here with Jeremy Taché of Valley Sports Florida.

They just want to stay on the cuff, Jeremy. They just want to stay on the cuff! This is the coolest thing that's ever happened. We're on the ice. We're standing on the ice. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. It's happening. It's all happening. It's all happening. This is-- you got the good seat up there in the press box, whoever it is.

You took my seat, goddammit. 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 this 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 saying, go Ice Cats. Thank you. We got Stephen Lawrence and Anthony Stolas, 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 grinded, 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. How are you feeling, Anthony? Ah!

Ah, pretty damn good right now. It's such a surreal moment just to be able to share it with, you know, everybody on the team, guys that...

You know, I worked 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 pumped right now. Yeah, baby. What's happening to you guys? No. Fucking A. Boys, congratulations. We're here with Stanley C. Panther of the Florida Panthers. This is a...

- The championship mascot. - The championship mascot. How do you feel right now, Stanley? - Yes. - Well, Roboto, Morongo, and you have finally got yourself a Stanley Cup ring coming your way. - How's it feel? - Pretty good, man. Feels pretty good. - The Morongo man is going on the cup. - I know. Honestly, it's sort of 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...

It's everything I would imagine and 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 that it was a different vibe around the team.

I think the added motivation tonight was from you drumming. 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 over the last 10 days I needed to let out. So I wanted to make sure that I got it all out so that 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 got yourself 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 mean, they just... I feel humbled. I feel more humility tonight than I can express, really. That's how I feel.

It's got to feel good kind of building on what you just said, knowing that you guys did it the right way. Family hires, you brought in Matty Caldwell. It's an extended, extended period to hire Billy. Yeah. You look for Paul, just all the right moves. So it's got to feel good to know that like you guys took your time. You did it right. And now what, what we're doing. Yeah. I mean, we're South Florida champions forever. Stanley cup never leaves. So yeah.

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 we soaked it up. It's a joyous occasion here at ice level here at AmeriBank 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 so cool.

We're going to get the fans' reaction at the infield. Oh, yeah, we got to go to the bar. Yeah, we got to go to the bar, and we're going to 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 Winningham, who decided to become a New York Rangers fan who promptly got vanquished during the Eastern Conference Final. Yeah. So...

In closing, as we leave the ice here at Amarillo Bank Arena, to you, Chris Renahan, you can go f*** yourself.

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