Hockey

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand sure made himself at home in Florida. Now he's a two-time Stanley Cup champion .

Matt Rempe re-signed with the New York Rangers on a two-year contract that a person with knowledge of the deal said is worth $1.95 million.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Stanley's stay in South Florida is getting extended.

The Florida Panthers are back-to-back Stanley Cup champions after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in their rematch final. They needed just six games this time after a seven-game thriller a year ago.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Aleksander Barkov hoisted the Stanley Cup, skated with it for a few moments and then handed it to a grinning Nate Schmidt, in his first year with the Florida Panthers and raising hockey's hallowed trophy for the first time.

The best team in hockey, again, was a team that did things totally its own way.

SUNRISE — Connor McDavid stood in the same room in the bowels of Amerant Bank Arena. The Oilers superstar captain was — just as he had 12 months earlier — digesting a crushing loss that ended Edmonton's season.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Paul Maurice is not the same person or coach he was when he got his first job in the NHL at 28 years old in the mid-1990s with the Hartford Whalers.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Some top Florida Panthers players gutted through significant injuries to help them repeat as Stanley Cup champions , most notably Matthew Tkachuk dealing with a sports hernia and torn adductor muscle on the same side.

The frustration was fresh and yet all too familiar for Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers after exiting the ice in Florida for a second straight June to make way for another Panthers’ Stanley Cup celebration.