Celebrating Ring Victory with Panthers & Friendship Insights

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00:00What was it like to finally win a ring?

00:05Because I remember when you won it, I reached out to you on social media.

00:09I was so happy for you two guys.

00:11First of all, your cohort, he's an idiot.

00:15I love him.

00:15He's so funny.

00:17I think he's a great color guy, the best in the league.

00:20And then to see you two guys get rings, it really made me happy.

00:24More than just the Panthers winning, because I kind of like the Panthers a little.

00:27I'm a Penguin fan.

00:28But to see my two friends win a ring, it made me so happy for you.

00:34Well, Pharrell, what an introduction.

00:37I appreciate it, man.

00:38I've known you for a long time.

00:40I love your success that you're having.

00:43I appreciate you playing in my golf tournament when you were down here in South Florida

00:47helping the kids through Goldie's Gang.

00:50It was an incredible feeling.

00:51I was so happy for Vinny Viola and his family and Doug Sifu and the owners who came in

00:57when the thing was, you know, not doing real well and putting all that time, all that effort

01:02and all of the people that work for the team that work so hard every single day.

01:08So I was thrilled and I was really thrilled for all of those people.

01:12And then the fans, you know, the ones that have stuck by the team and the new fans as well.

01:18But the ones that have been there the whole time, you're just thrilled for so many different

01:22people.

01:22And then you get to know a guy like coach of the team who's a salt of the earth guy,

01:26Paul Maurice, who is waiting 27 years to win the thing and actually in there every day,

01:31not just sitting up top like I am calling the games the easy job.

01:36It was an amazing feeling.

01:37And the incredible thing, Pharrell, we sit here on May 1st and they've got such a legitimate

01:44shot to win the thing again.

01:47And, you know, in hockey, that's not supposed to happen.

01:50So I saw my team win it back to back twice and they've won it five times.

01:56They won game seven in Detroit in 09 at Joe Lewis with the flower making that great save at the

02:01end.

02:01And that doesn't happen.

02:03A winning at Joe Lewis against the Red Wings after you'd lost to him the year before.

02:07So when they won, it was the greatest thing.

02:09Honestly, it was better than the birth of my children or even meeting my wife, 34C.

02:14You know her.

02:15I just don't care about them as much as I do the hockey.

02:18I love them, but not on that kind of like real spiritual love affair type sexual love I

02:24have for the Penguins.

02:25But when the Panthers, they have a shot for sure to do it.

02:30And they just last night, I mean, I think Bennett had the game winning goal and all of a sudden

02:37they added, you know, tick tock, another couple, the empty netter, and they buried the Lightning

02:42for one.

02:44It was supposed to be this great seven game series and the Lightning were going to beat

02:49the Panthers and none of that happened.

02:51And it's over again.

02:52And the Lightning are basically your bitch.

02:57Well, you know, those first, so they played for the last five years in the playoffs, every

03:03year, the winner of that series, and they played either the first or second round.

03:08Every year, the winner of the series has gone on to the cup.

03:11One of the Florida teams has played for the cup for five years in a row.

03:15So it is amazing what's going on with the game here in South Florida.

03:19I thought, Pharrell, you go back to the series in 21 and 22, the Panthers learned their lessons

03:24from Tampa Bay.

03:26And it's amazing because in those first two series, the Lightning won eight out of 10 games,

03:31a six-game series and a four-game series.

03:33Now in the last two series, the last 12 months, the Panthers have won eight out of 10 games,

03:38only been a five-game series.

03:39I think a lot of people bought into how the Panthers were kind of playing late in the season.

03:46They didn't have Kachuk.

03:48They didn't have Ekblad.

03:49Bennett got hurt for a few games.

03:51Kulikov was hurt.

03:53They knew, you know, this team is as good on the road as they are at home, maybe even

03:57better on the road.

03:58They knew it didn't really matter where they finished.

04:01So, you know, for a number of reasons with guys being out of the lineup, Panthers didn't

04:06really have the pedal to the metal the last four to six weeks.

04:09They didn't really need to.

04:10And they really couldn't with the guys that I had.

04:12They also had a schedule.

04:13They played nine games in the last 15 days.

04:16I think a lot of people bought into that erroneously.

04:20And then all of a sudden, the playoffs come.

04:23Remember, Matthew Kachuk had never played a game with Seth Jones and Brad Marchand on

04:29his team until game one.

04:30And it all came together.

04:33Now they just look like an absolute wagon.

04:36And it's going to be tough to someone to beat them, all things being equal, four times in

04:41two weeks.

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