Looking back at each Panthers postgame victory puck moment from latest Stanley Cup run
Florida has advanced to each of the past three Stanley Cup Finals, winning back-to-back championships in the process.
They're also built to last, with the team's entire core locked into long-term, team-friendly contracts that will allow Florida to remain one of the top teams in the NHL for years to come.
The success of the Panthers has provided some incredibly fun and memorable moments for their fans, and the team has done an excellent job of creating and curating the events into consumable content that can be rewatched and revisited time and time again.
One thing that the Panthers have done during each of their three runs to the Final that fans have really seemed to enjoy engaging with on social media has been their postgame puck tradition.
It started back in 2023, which was the year that Florida squeaked into the playoffs as the eighth seed.
Facing a first-round matchup against the historically good Boston Bruins, who had set a new NHL record for wins and points in the regular season (with 65 wins and 135 points), the Panthers were a massive underdog.
After falling behind three games to one in the series, Matthew Tkachuk scored the overtime winner in Game 5 in Boston, sparking Florida's incredible, improbable run to the Stanley Cup Final.
In the Panthers' postgame locker room, the game puck went Tkachuk, and he famously said to his teammates, 'Remember this room, we'll be back here for (Game) 7.'
Those videos have become something of a thing in the two years since, though it surely helps that Florida has done so much winning once the playoffs arrive.
Considering the team's postseason prospects for the coming years, we may just be scratching the surface on these fun videos.
As we did last season here at THN Florida, we've compiled a list of every postgame puck moment, starting with the first game of the postseason in Tampa Bay.
ROUND ONE VS. TAMPA BAY
Game 1: Matthew Tkachuk
Game 2: Sergei Bobrovsky
Game 4: Aaron Ekblad
Game 5: Brad Marchand
ROUND TWO VS. TORONTO
Game 3: Tomas Nosek
Game 4: Sergei Bobrovsky
Game 5: Seth Jones
Game 7: Sasha Barkov
ROUND THREE VS. CAROLINA
Game 1: Niko Mikkola
Game 2: Carter Verhaeghe
Game 3: Jesper Boqvist
Game 5: Evan Rodrigues
STANLEY CUP FINAL VS. EDMONTON
Game 2: Brad Marchand
Game 3: Jonah Gadjovich
Game 5: Vitek Vanecek
Game 6: Bill Zito
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Photo caption: Florida Panthers postgame playoff puck board following Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final at PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. (David Dwork)
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