You Won’t Believe What The Florida Panthers Put In Their Celebratory Water Guns During Their Stanley Cup Championship Parade

The run the Florida Panthers have been on in the past couple of seasons in the NHL is truly something to admire.

When you think “dominant and commanding professional hockey team,” your mind probably doesn’t immediately go to the sunny shores of Miami, Florida. But South Beach is where the current back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions hail from, and I’ve got a feeling that Canada absolutely hates everything about that.

Like… Canadians are probably losing sleep thinking about how good a team existing in a warm-all-year-round climate is at hockey.

Aleksander Barkov and Brad Marchand (and dem boys) made short work of the opposing Edmonton Oilers. The Ice Cats won the Stanley Cup Finals series 4 to 2, and there was never really a moment in the entirety of the postseason that made hockey fans think anyone else but the Florida Panthers were going to win it all.

And sure enough, they did, and became back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions:

Being repeat champions calls for an even rowdier celebration than the year prior, does it not?

This past Sunday, the Florida Panthers got to celebrating in the streets of Miami. All in all, the Stanley Cup celebration cost the team around $2 million, and I guess you kind of forget that championship teams typically have to foot the bill when they congratulate themselves for their own accomplishments.

Plenty of Florida Panthers fans braved the warm weather and showed up for the parade, and some lucky celebration attendees were even sprayed with water guns that were manned by Florida Panthers players themselves. Little did they know… what filled those water guns was incredibly special.

Now I won’t leave you guessing for too long. I know the idea of something other than regular ol’ H2O in a water gun can often be nefarious. Trust me when I say that the Florida Panthers weren’t up to anything bad. Instead, they were up to something really cool… no pun intended.

As it turns out, before the hockey team headed out on their parade route, members of the Florida Panthers organization took some of the ice that they team won their Stanley Cup Championship on, placed it into the water guns, and then let it melt. So fans that attended the parade were soaked with melted, championship ice from the rink that their favorite team skated across on their way to a back-to-back title.

As revealed by the Florida Panthers social media team:

“Did you think this was regular water at the parade? What if we told you it was actually melted from our championship ice?

Did you get sprayed by water at the parade? You actually got sprayed by melted championship ice.”

Now THAT is really something.

If a hockey team has done that before, forgive me, but I haven’t seen it. The Florida Panthers might have just messed around and started a Stanley Cup championship parade tradition that other teams will duplicate for years to come.

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