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Patrick Andres

Panthers Coach Had Sweetest Speech for Fourth Line Before They Closed Stanley Cup

Paul Maurice takes questions before the 2025 Stanley Cup Final. | Walter Tychnowicz-Imagn Images

In hockey, for the unfamiliar, the fourth line is the perennially unloved cleanup crew of the team—the enforcers and grinders who fill the minutes between the superstars' shifts.

On the ever-classy Florida Panthers, things seem to work a little differently. As the Panthers polished off their Stanley Cup-clinching 5–1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday, Florida coach Paul Maurice pulled the group aside on the bench and gave them their due.

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