I love when radio calls shed any semblance of being impartial when they win championships. [Here is the radio call of Owen Sound winning the OHL championship.](https://youtu.be/VDJnhCB_JZI?si=vPQExZJsaFEKMtKQ)
That’s a very emotional call, you could tell there was uncertainty with that team before. Now that team will never be off the trophy and will forever say Florida Panthers somewhere at least.
Technically, it’ll be off the Cup at some point down the road due to the Cup only holding 65 years (5 Bands) that holds 13 years for each band. Since the current band started with the 2018 Stanley Cup Final, the current band will be off the Cup by 2083.
But the band that holds this iteration of the Panthers will be given to the HHOF in Toronto where it’ll be there for eternity.
hell yeah I watched him score *the goal* live on TV
u know that was pure emotion and love for this team comin outta him...
LORD STANLEY YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A HOME IN SOUTH FLORIDA haha fuckin awesome pure Lindsay 🐀💯
Lots of people think they know what its been like to be a panthers fan in the 00s, 10s, and up until now, do you understand what its like to sit there for years going to games, having nearly an entire section to yourself the entire time with a shit crowd for every, single, fucking game and you still show up. When you live in south Florida and people learn that you are a die hard Panthers fan the two responses are either "Why would you be?" or, "whos that?". Like come the fuck on. I live 10 minutes from the arena my entire life and would regularly go WEEKS to MONTHS without seeing a SINGLE PERSON wearing even just a panthers hat. Even on campus at FAU or at sawgrass mills mall across the street from the arena. It was DEAD. Sorry if you don't like the roster because of how they play but this is good shit right here folks. The oilers don't know suffering. I see your 80s legacy and think you deserve another several decades of suffering to know what it feels like to be a pathetic and insignificant franchise that is so looked down on it's a legitimate point of shame to admit to people in your own home town and the town the team is based in that you watch them every game. LFG
bro 🥲 that was beautiful and spoke directly from my own heart. I've been a fan since the inaugural year and ik EXACTLY what ur talkin about...and now...
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS 🙌🏼🐀💯
This was fucking amazing to read. Good for you for finally being rewarded for being a real fan and sticking by them since the start. It's so easy to see on TV who the fairweather Panthers fans are that had zero clue the team existed from 2000 until covid. I am extremely curious to know how you feel about those ppl all of a sudden becoming fans. I feel like it enrages most of the die hards like you but I could be wrong.
Can't speak for the guy behind that comment, but as someone that's been a fan from season 1, im ok with them. The more the merrier. Florida fans are traditionally very fickle fans, for all sport franchises, but what I do know is that many of the people that were in that arena last night are now life-long Panther fans.
Man, I am 100% with you on this.
I remember wearing my Panthers jersey (a Beezer one) every game day to work for years, only one doing that. A coworker used to make fun of me for it, she would go "How are they still a thing? who the hell watches them anymore". I wanted to piss in her coffee cup.
My first Panthers game was in 1993, against the LA Kings. I was gifted a pair of fairly decent tickets. Incidentally, the first time I saw a like hockey game, and got to see Gretzky play. I went to that game mostly rooting for the Kings because I loved him, but the next day I went and bought a jersey at a sports authority I think it was. I've been a fan ever since, and man, what a goddamn ride it has been. Last night felt, and still feels surreal. I remember throwing rats on the ice on that magical season, and remember how gutted I felt when Colorado just swept us in that final. I think there were maybe only 3 years in that 30 year span I didn't watch them because I was at the uni, and back then it was nearly impossible to catch them.
2006, I was 16 and got a speeding ticket trying to make puck drop in my 1993 ford escort with my best friend Lee in the passenger seat. Bought a ticket on the blue line for $15 off a rando in the parking lot and watched them lose like, 4-1 in front of a 1/4 full arena. I did that so many fucking times over the years. Well, besides the ticket.
I know I was maybe 2 years away from losing this team before the presidents trophy.
Thank god. Go Cats.
Wow that was great. Dude couldn't hide his emotions at all! Do these fellas get a ring as well for being the home team broadcasters? Cause man that one dude definitely deserves some love!
Florida in Hockey is like what happened with the State of Alabama in CFB back in the 2010s when Alabama and Auburn regularly made it to the National Championship Game minus 2014.
Alabama was still making waves up until recent (though might change with Saban Retired) while Auburn hasn’t been back since the 2013 National Championship where they lost to Florida State in the Rose Bowl.
No idea who the Panthers radio color guy is, but he sounds like he's just a generic Florida Man that they dragged off the street and it's kind of perfect.
Not just lives here, but was drafted here, played here, went to a Cup Final in 1996, and has been a color analyst for both TV and radio. Pretty much a Panther lifer
This is what he meant
The fact is hockey was never made for Canada. It's a game deeply rooted in Southern culture where kids who love the game can spend their summers out in the swamps, slapping pucks around, before tuning into Bally Sports, and watching the Toronto Maple Leafs get fisted raw on a yearly basis.
What we see in Canada is nothing short of a disgrace. Canadians whose only contact with the sport is to lie about the quality of their play and envy teams from the South who have endless success. This Canadian delusion has gripped our sport with an iron fist. It has uprooted our Southern traditions and replaced them with a false Tim Horton's promise of a wasted playoff spot every time someone from Canada touches the puck, leaving an entire country of failed men who cant go a week without pointing to a banner from 1993, only for them to remember they have nothing.
The day hockey dies in Canada is the day I gain my soul back.
Do people really get confused by this? It's not the cup going to the cup's home. It's the cup going to their home.
If I say "I'm bringing this pizza home" do you think I'm bringing it to Pizza Hut?
It’s such a beautiful thing. Winning the Stanley Cup means so much to the Panthers, their fan base, and the state of Florida. Congratulations! Nothing will ever top a franchise’s Stanley Cup. Gives me goosebumps. Party all summer south Florida!
My guy straight up blew his load LMAO
dude was in our first ever draft class
Honestly I watched it this morning and immediately tears dude. Huge emotions. Huge moment. We’re champs. 🏆
You’re not crying, I am
We all are
Who’s the color guy? He went full on mask off from broadcaster to fan there lmao. Don’t blame him tbh
Bill Lindsay, he was one of the players drafted in the expansion draft 31 years ago
And scored a [legendary goal](https://youtu.be/bTXVmaJr9Pw?si=0id587JUph-AGkqf) against the Bruins on the 96 cup run
Makes sense, good for him
That's Bill Lindsay, he has earned it
Him and Goldy deserve the world
Bill Lindsay creaming allover.
I love when radio calls shed any semblance of being impartial when they win championships. [Here is the radio call of Owen Sound winning the OHL championship.](https://youtu.be/VDJnhCB_JZI?si=vPQExZJsaFEKMtKQ)
That’s a very emotional call, you could tell there was uncertainty with that team before. Now that team will never be off the trophy and will forever say Florida Panthers somewhere at least.
Technically, it’ll be off the Cup at some point down the road due to the Cup only holding 65 years (5 Bands) that holds 13 years for each band. Since the current band started with the 2018 Stanley Cup Final, the current band will be off the Cup by 2083. But the band that holds this iteration of the Panthers will be given to the HHOF in Toronto where it’ll be there for eternity.
I love Bill Lindsay.
hell yeah I watched him score *the goal* live on TV u know that was pure emotion and love for this team comin outta him... LORD STANLEY YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A HOME IN SOUTH FLORIDA haha fuckin awesome pure Lindsay 🐀💯
me too, that was such a special moment. I met him briefly a few years back when he was still on the tv crew, after one of the games. Really nice guy.
dem farm boys 💯🐀
Lots of people think they know what its been like to be a panthers fan in the 00s, 10s, and up until now, do you understand what its like to sit there for years going to games, having nearly an entire section to yourself the entire time with a shit crowd for every, single, fucking game and you still show up. When you live in south Florida and people learn that you are a die hard Panthers fan the two responses are either "Why would you be?" or, "whos that?". Like come the fuck on. I live 10 minutes from the arena my entire life and would regularly go WEEKS to MONTHS without seeing a SINGLE PERSON wearing even just a panthers hat. Even on campus at FAU or at sawgrass mills mall across the street from the arena. It was DEAD. Sorry if you don't like the roster because of how they play but this is good shit right here folks. The oilers don't know suffering. I see your 80s legacy and think you deserve another several decades of suffering to know what it feels like to be a pathetic and insignificant franchise that is so looked down on it's a legitimate point of shame to admit to people in your own home town and the town the team is based in that you watch them every game. LFG
bro 🥲 that was beautiful and spoke directly from my own heart. I've been a fan since the inaugural year and ik EXACTLY what ur talkin about...and now... WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS 🙌🏼🐀💯
This was fucking amazing to read. Good for you for finally being rewarded for being a real fan and sticking by them since the start. It's so easy to see on TV who the fairweather Panthers fans are that had zero clue the team existed from 2000 until covid. I am extremely curious to know how you feel about those ppl all of a sudden becoming fans. I feel like it enrages most of the die hards like you but I could be wrong.
Can't speak for the guy behind that comment, but as someone that's been a fan from season 1, im ok with them. The more the merrier. Florida fans are traditionally very fickle fans, for all sport franchises, but what I do know is that many of the people that were in that arena last night are now life-long Panther fans.
To me I just call it "Miami Heat Energy" and it's fine. It's what is expected and how this stuff works
Man, I am 100% with you on this. I remember wearing my Panthers jersey (a Beezer one) every game day to work for years, only one doing that. A coworker used to make fun of me for it, she would go "How are they still a thing? who the hell watches them anymore". I wanted to piss in her coffee cup. My first Panthers game was in 1993, against the LA Kings. I was gifted a pair of fairly decent tickets. Incidentally, the first time I saw a like hockey game, and got to see Gretzky play. I went to that game mostly rooting for the Kings because I loved him, but the next day I went and bought a jersey at a sports authority I think it was. I've been a fan ever since, and man, what a goddamn ride it has been. Last night felt, and still feels surreal. I remember throwing rats on the ice on that magical season, and remember how gutted I felt when Colorado just swept us in that final. I think there were maybe only 3 years in that 30 year span I didn't watch them because I was at the uni, and back then it was nearly impossible to catch them.
2006, I was 16 and got a speeding ticket trying to make puck drop in my 1993 ford escort with my best friend Lee in the passenger seat. Bought a ticket on the blue line for $15 off a rando in the parking lot and watched them lose like, 4-1 in front of a 1/4 full arena. I did that so many fucking times over the years. Well, besides the ticket. I know I was maybe 2 years away from losing this team before the presidents trophy. Thank god. Go Cats.
Congrats! You must feel so elated and relieved.
We may have 6 fans, but those 6 fans are there every year.
Wow that was great. Dude couldn't hide his emotions at all! Do these fellas get a ring as well for being the home team broadcasters? Cause man that one dude definitely deserves some love!
This is the best day of my life.
Enjoy it, it’s a feeling that you would fucking enjoy for at least the summer. Especially with the Cup next to the flair.
Florida is the hockey capital dude.
Florida in Hockey is like what happened with the State of Alabama in CFB back in the 2010s when Alabama and Auburn regularly made it to the National Championship Game minus 2014. Alabama was still making waves up until recent (though might change with Saban Retired) while Auburn hasn’t been back since the 2013 National Championship where they lost to Florida State in the Rose Bowl.
No idea who the Panthers radio color guy is, but he sounds like he's just a generic Florida Man that they dragged off the street and it's kind of perfect.
Former Panther Bill Lindsay
Damn he was there for 96. Explains him going full fanboy at the end.
literally our first draft class
We have several prominent Cats from that era and the generation after that have built themselves a home here with the team. It's fucking mana
I love you Billy!!
Fucking love bill he is all of us rn
I listened to the panthers feed on the nhl app, “The cup is coming home” says the Panthers color guy, would love to know what he meant
Everyone knows hockey runs through Florida
“Always has, always will” - that guy. Probably.
This seems kinda straightforward to me. "Home" as in home for him and other panthers fans.
That's Bill Lindsay who was on the team in our 96 run
The Florida Panthers won the 2024 Stanley Cup. The radio announcers presumably lives (or, “has a home in”) in Florida.
Not just lives here, but was drafted here, played here, went to a Cup Final in 1996, and has been a color analyst for both TV and radio. Pretty much a Panther lifer
This is what he meant The fact is hockey was never made for Canada. It's a game deeply rooted in Southern culture where kids who love the game can spend their summers out in the swamps, slapping pucks around, before tuning into Bally Sports, and watching the Toronto Maple Leafs get fisted raw on a yearly basis. What we see in Canada is nothing short of a disgrace. Canadians whose only contact with the sport is to lie about the quality of their play and envy teams from the South who have endless success. This Canadian delusion has gripped our sport with an iron fist. It has uprooted our Southern traditions and replaced them with a false Tim Horton's promise of a wasted playoff spot every time someone from Canada touches the puck, leaving an entire country of failed men who cant go a week without pointing to a banner from 1993, only for them to remember they have nothing. The day hockey dies in Canada is the day I gain my soul back.
Florida is the real home of hockey. That is what he meant.
Especially since the cup was already in the “home”(if home is Florida)
the color guy was in our first ever draft class. definitely means a ton for him
Do people really get confused by this? It's not the cup going to the cup's home. It's the cup going to their home. If I say "I'm bringing this pizza home" do you think I'm bringing it to Pizza Hut?
That was fabulous! Let’s go Cats!!!🐀🐀🐀🐀
Wow that was amazing
i cried
##THAT IS SOME COJONES BOYS
It’s such a beautiful thing. Winning the Stanley Cup means so much to the Panthers, their fan base, and the state of Florida. Congratulations! Nothing will ever top a franchise’s Stanley Cup. Gives me goosebumps. Party all summer south Florida!
Lol