The Stanley Cup was awarded on Tuesday night to the Florida Panthers after delivering a dominant 5-1 win to capture Lord Stanley’s chalice for the second consecutive year.
The Panthers are the first team since the Tampa Bay Lightning (2020 and 2021) to become back-to-back Stanley Cup winners.
There are a few Pittsburgh Penguins connections to the now-back-to-back winners, namely in forward Evan Rodrigues and former Penguin-turned-Panther Patric Hornqvist. In Hornqvist’s case, he’s now a two-time back-to-back (four-time overall) Stanley Cup winner.
Since retiring with the Panthers in 2023, Hornqvist has become a scout and development consultant for the club.