The Panthers Matthew Tkachuk celebrated a Stanley Cup win with a dip in the Ocean, and gave the NHL a little bit of a fearful moment, as he brought the Stanley Cup with him!
Tkachuk, Aaron Ekblad, and Sam Reinhart went to the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale with Lord Stanley's Cup in hand. Fans surrounded the bar, as beers were poured into the Cup, which the team poured out for fans from the balcony.
A midst the celebration, Tkachuk decided to have a swim in the ocean with the Cup!
"I'm very lucky, the guys are such a great group of guys, we have a lot of fun on and off the ice," Tkachuk said.
The party went hard into the night after the Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup, further extending Canada's drought of having the Cup north of the border for yet another year.
The last time a Canadian team took the Cup home, was by the Montreal Canadiens themselves in 1993, when they beat former Oiler and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and his L.A. Kings. Since that time, Gretzky retired and owned an American franchise in Phoenix, the Kings won a championship of their own, and now two different Florida franchises have won the highest championship of the sport that was created in the great white north itself.
The Panthers will be holding their championship parade on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, and it remains to be seen what the other members of the team will do with the Cup.