President Donald Trump hosted the Stanley Cup-champion Florida Panthers on Monday after making major deals with Mexico and Canada to delay tariffs.
He congratulated the team on its success in the 2023-2024 season, which culminated in a Game 7 victory at home against the Edmonton Oilers last June.
“The entire team, congratulations on your first-ever Stanley Cup win,” Trump said. “And you had a couple of really close calls, and I watched the team get better and better and better, and then they won.”
Much of the Panthers roster showed up to the White House in maroon or red ties, to the pleasure of the president.
“I love all these ties. This is so cute, these people,” Trump said, drawing laughs from the players. “Look at them. I walked in, I said, ‘I think they like Trump.’”
Panthers Captain Sasha Barkov…
