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FORT LAUDERDALE — To say his last 48 hours have been a whirlwind would be an understatement. Mads Kongsbak Klyvo — the Danish forward taken No. 112 by the Florida Panthers in the fourth round of the NHL draft — was at home in Denmark, gathered around the TV with his family, when he heard his name called on Saturday afternoon. Just 48 hours later, the 18 year old was on the ice in Fort Lauderdale. “It’s been pretty overwhelming,” Klyvo said on Monday after the Panthers’ first practice of player development camp. “I got a call quite quickly after the draft, and then we figured out a flight to...

SUNRISE — The Panthers repeated as champions with a 5-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. Now it is time for a repeat parade. The Panthers’ championship parade is tentatively planned for Sunday, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. The parade will “most likely” be down A1A in Fort Lauderdale Beach, Trantalis said. Last year’s beachfront parade drew an estimated crowd of at least 200,000 people despite pouring rain and lightning. The 2024 parade was the culmination of a weeklong celebration that featured Panthers players pouring beer onto...

SUNRISE — Sam Bennett has been called many things in his career. A rat. A draft bust. A dirty player. He can add a new title: Conn Smythe Trophy winner. Bennett helped the Panthers lift their second straight Stanley Cup with a win over Edmonton on Tuesday, and he won the award given to the playoffs’ most valuable player. Bennett is the Panthers’ first-ever Conn Smythe winner; Edmonton’s Connor McDavid won the award last year despite the Oilers losing the series. Bennett had 15 playoff goals, leading the league, and seven assists. He scored five goals and had one assist in the Stanley Cup...

SUNRISE — In the end, it wasn’t as much a competition as it was a coronation. The Florida Panthers proved themselves undisputed kings of the NHL, repeating as Stanley Cup champions by defeating the Edmonton Oilers in six games. Sam Reinhart’s remarkable four-goal effort and a near-shutout from goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky anchored a 5-1 Game 6 win Tuesday night at Amerant Bank Arena to keep the Cup in South Florida. Last year, it was the celebration of a franchise that that had struggled for decades, residing in sunshine and playing a sport on ice, finally reaching the NHL’s mountaintop. If...

EDMONTON — This time, the Florida Panthers built a lead and held it. And because of it, they come back home with a chance to seal the Stanley Cup Final for a second straight season. The Panthers, behind two goals from Brad Marchand and others from Sam Bennett, Sam Reinhart and Eetu Luostarinen, took down the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 in Game 5 on Saturday night at Rogers Place. Florida, rebounding from a Game 4 defeat in which it blew a three-goal lead, can claim its second consecutive Stanley Cup back at Amerant Back Arena in Game 6 Tuesday night. The Panthers did so by improving to 10-3 on the...

SUNRISE — It was Taylor Swift who said Florida is one hell of a drug. Related Articles Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at Florida Panthers’ Stanley Cup Final Game 4 | PHOTOS Swift, the star singer-songwriter was at Amerant Bank Arena on Thursday night — and not for a concert. Swift attended the Florida Panthers’ Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, watching with boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce from a suite. The couple appeared to be rooting for the Panthers, as Swift reacted favorably when the home team started the scoring with a goal from...

Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift and Wayne Gretzky, from left, sit together during the second period as the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers play in Game Four of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final at Amerant Bank Arena on June 12, 2025 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images) Travis Kelce, left, and Taylor Swift react as the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers play during the first period in Game Four of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final at Amerant Bank Arena on June 12, 2025 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) Travis Kelce, left, and Taylor Swift react as...

SUNRISE — As impressive as the Florida Panthers’ third consecutive run through the Stanley Cup playoffs has been, it’s been accompanied by an inexplicable statistical oddity. The Panthers could not get the puck in the net on the power play at home. They entered Monday night’s Game 3 1 for 28 (3.6 percent) on the power play in playoff games at Amerant Bank Arena through three rounds. Florida apparently just needed the stakes to be a little higher. The Panthers scored twice on the power play Monday as they took a 2-1 series lead against the Edmonton Oilers. The drought was snapped when...

It’s not the baby faces or different hair Aaron Ekblad mentions about a photo from his 2014 draft, the one passed around the Florida Panthers’ plane before this Stanley Cup Final of that year’s top four picks, in order: Ekblad, Leon Draisaitl, Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett. “We were all laughing about how bad our shoes were,’’ he said. The chances of the four top picks having big careers is rare. Three of them being Panthers is rarer still and speaks of the assembling of talent on this team. And meeting the fourth, Draisaitl, the star Edmonton forward, for a second straight final?...

EDMONTON — There again will be thousands of fans outside the Rogers Place cheering in a plaza Friday night. A horn section at one end of the arena again won’t be heard sometimes over arena’s relentless noise. A fan will again hold up a sign, “SERGEI,” to signal it’s time to serenade Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. “Seeer-geeeeei!” the crowd will chant. Sometimes, during the half-second’s lull in that chant, a sub-chorus will sound. “We want the Cup!” Yes, it will be hockey heaven again in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, as electric a championship venue as there is in all of sports....