CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Florida Everblades brought the Kelly Cup to Cape Coral, giving fans a chance to meet players and celebrate the team’s championship.<\/p>\n
Everblades fans gathered at Huey Magoos for a community meet-and-greet. Fans swapped their seats in the stands for photos with the Kelly Cup.<\/p>\n
“It’s cool that you know the community is so local,” said Jessica Lynn, an Everblades fan. “Like bigger cities, I feel like they wouldn’t be able to have that connection as a fan base.”<\/p>\n
Defenseman Jordan Sambrook said the connection goes both ways.<\/p>\n
“We really want to give back to them and you know obviously support them and by doing nights like this it’s huge for them and a fun night for us for sure,” Sambrook said.<\/p>\n
Huey Magoos General Manager Drew Stamm helped bring the partnership to Cape Coral.<\/p>\n
“I had no idea they were going to win the cup that year specifically, so it’s just a bonus, you know, being able to have them here,” Stamm said.<\/p>\n
For fans, the access makes rooting for the Everblades that much better.<\/p>\n
“It is awesome watching it just grow over the years,” said Owen Marge, an Everblades fan. “Because when I was coming here, when I was five, there were not very many people. But then we started winning the Kelly Cup, and just more and more people started showing up for the games.”<\/p>\n
While fans made memories, Sambrook is already looking toward the next run.<\/p>\n
“It’s a full restart, pretty much,” Sambrook said. “Obviously, our goal is the same: to win the cup. And we definitely want to keep it down here for many years.”<\/p>\n
The Florida Everblades open preseason play Oct. 8 at Hertz Arena against the Orlando Solar Bears. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Florida Everblades brought the Kelly Cup to Cape Coral, giving fans a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,164209,28,10206,21024,10214,111037,164208,164211,83265,123137,47184,164210,164207],"class_list":["post-414423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-drew-stamm","tag-florida","tag-florida-everblades","tag-general-manager","tag-hertz-arena","tag-huey-magoos","tag-ice-hockey-in-the-united-states","tag-jessica-lynn","tag-jordan-sambrook","tag-kelly-cup","tag-minor-league-hockey","tag-owen-marge","tag-sports-in-the-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}