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After winning his first Stanley Cup in 2024, the Captain of the Florida Panthers, Aleksander Barkov, undoubtedly lacked some motivation to return to the ice.
“That was my biggest dream in this hockey game. So, of course, I had that feeling,” said the second 2013 team in a recent interview with Pak Gazette Digital. “When I thought, ‘ok, it’s time to start training again’, it was very, very difficult. As, it is very difficult to get up and go somewhere to run or for an elevator or something.”
But then, he thought about the “general panorama” and recalled that lifting the Stanley Cup is “the best feeling in hockey.”
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The center of the Florida Panthers, Aleksander Barkov, accompanied the Stanley Cup after winning the game six of the Stanley 2025 Cup final against the Edmonton Oilers at the A USERANT Bank Arena. (Sam Navarro-Imagn images)
Now, the Panthers have the opportunity to do something not achieved since the early 1980s: they win three consecutive Stanley glasses, and Barkov already “is thinking next year.”
“To have that celebration again, to enjoy the season again with the team, pass through the ups and downs Go go back to go again to go again to go again to start again. “
Perhaps his association Celsius fed him in the middle of the season. The 200 milligrams of caffeine of the energy drink helped Barkov overcome those exhausting days during the hockey year. For him, it is also an association that hits him near him: the headquarters is in the nearby Boca Mouse (the Panthers play at dawn), and said that Celsius is becoming a success in his country of origin in Finland.
“This is how I am trying to live as a athlete. I am trying to eat in the right way. I am trying to sleep in the right way, recover, practice, train, whatever, I am thinking of becoming a better athlete for the next day, for the next game,” he said. “So I think Celsius fits very well, because they have everything I need in a drink. He also knows very well, so I don’t have to force him. He keeps me awake when I need it more, all the vitamins I need during the whole day are there. Therefore, it is only a total package in a drink.”
The center of the Florida Panthers, Aleksander Barkov, receives the Gary Bettman Stanley Cup, the NHL Commissioner, after winning the game six of the Stanley 2025 Cup final. (Sam Navarro-Imagn images)
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An extra motivation? Perhaps the fact that you should have new ideas about how to celebrate with the Stanley Cup (he said that 48 consecutive celebration hours were its maximum).
“We can spend a day individually with the cup, so that will be a challenge. I did everything I needed to do last year. I literally showed it to everyone I needed to show. So this year, probably taking a little easier and maybe spend more time just to me and me and the cup,” Barkov joked.
An idea is obviously “pouring a centigrade in it and simply drinking it.” He also brought him to the houses of his neighbors in the early hours of the morning.
But first, it will be another 82 -game season, and then you will need to win 16 more games in the postseason to lift the best trophy in sports again.
“For me, I feel better at this time to continue working, to continue improving,” Barkov said. “Because, well, last year, winning the first time, he feels like, ‘ok, now I have done everything I wanted, I dreamed.’ Now, after doing so for the second time, it is the best feeling in hockey.
The center of the Florida Panthers, Aleksander Barkov, talks to fans during the Stanley Cup championship parade and rally. (Sam Navarro-Imagn images)
“Obviously, we just won, so we will celebrate this a little, but already thinking about next year, how big it is a possibility that we have an even greater story. And that is what already drives me forward.”
