The names of the 2024-25 Stanley Cup champions were engraved on the trophy earlier this week. A picture posted to social media shows 52 members of the Panthers ownership, staff and team were added to the trophy.

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The two-time reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers take on the Chicago Blackhawks in an opening night triple-header to launch the 2025 NHL regular-season, the league announced Monday.

Aleksander Barkov is the first name among the players and is marked with ‘CAPT’ as the team’s captain. His teammates are then listed in alphabetical order, from Uvis Balinskis down to Carter Verhaeghe. Of the 24 players etched into the Cup, 14 also had a place on the roster from the 2023-24 champions.

Those things are win the Stanley Cup and lead the league in penalty minutes. Florida certainly qualified for that honor this year, leading the NHL during the regular season with 853 PIMs and then again during the playoffs, with another 370. Would you believe that the Panthers are only the fifth team over the past 50-plus years to pull of this feat?

Sure, there's the taxes. But there's also elite team-building and a culture that players adore. GM Bill Zito: "They stayed to win, period."

A key teammate of Matthew Tkachuk and Brad Marchand is leaving the Florida Panthers, but first he opens up about what it meant to be part of the NHL’s back-to-back Stanley Cup champion team.

“What I've seen from my time in South Florida is they care a ton, so much about hockey, more than I could have ever pictured,” Tkachuk said of Panthers fans. “I've love playing there. It's been the time of my life, the best thing that's happened to me in my hockey career, and I’m looking forward to hopefully another (Stanley Cup).”