{"id":57525,"date":"2025-08-10T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57525\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:27:07","slug":"barkov-brings-stanley-cup-back-to-finland-for-2nd-year-in-row-eyes-another-big-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57525\/","title":{"rendered":"Barkov brings Stanley Cup back to Finland for 2nd year in row, eyes another big season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stanley Cup returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/aleksander-barkov-day-with-stanley-cup-in-tampere-finland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barkov City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a second straight year Florida Panthers captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/aleksander-barkov-8477493\" title=\"Aleksander Barkov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksander Barkov<\/a> was able to take the trophy home to Tampere, Finland. And, he says, the experience is very different the second time around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year was so hectic. I didn&#8217;t even chance to sit down and think about what had happened. Now I have,&#8221; Barkov said. &#8220;Last year there was some sort of feel-good mentality, I felt like I don\u2019t even have the energy to practice. Now it\u2019s totally different. No need to [force] myself to practice, I\u2019m doing it because I want to be a better player [than] I was last season. I have a feeling all our players have already started to prepare for the upcoming season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barkov would know the team&#8217;s temperature both on and off the ice. The two-time NHL All-Star has been the Panthers captain since 2018 and is coming off a season in which he won his third career (and second consecutive) Selke trophy as the League&#8217;s top defensive forward, and the King Clancy Trophy for leadership and humanitarian contribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stanley Cup returned to Barkov City. For a second straight year Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-57525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}