The Florida Panthers will celebrate their first Stanley Cup victory in franchise history during the 2024–25 NHL season with a special logo at center ice.

On Monday night, a photo of the Panthers’ new logo appeared on social media at center ice, showing their traditional logo surrounded by a pattern meant to resemble the pattern on the Stanley Cup bowl:

The Panthers fought hard to win their first Stanley Cup last season, beating the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 in Game 7 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final after blowing a 3-0 series lead.

Florida joined the NHL as an expansion franchise in 1993 and reached the playoffs and the Stanley Cup final for the first time in 1996. However, success eluded them for many years.

In the following 22 seasons, the Panthers only reached the playoffs four times and never made it past the first round.

Their fortunes turned around during the COVID-shortened 2019–20 season, when they reached the qualifying round of the playoffs, making their first five consecutive postseason appearances.

They set a franchise record with 122 points in the 2021-22 season, and although they slipped to 92 points in the 2022-23 season and barely made the playoffs, they made it to the Stanley Cup Final, where they lost to the Vegas Golden Knights.

This set the stage for a special 2023-24 season, with the Panthers establishing themselves as one of the league’s top teams throughout the year, finishing with 110 points.

Led by Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Reinhart, Aleksander Barkov and a number of other offensive stars as well as goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, the Panthers won their first three playoff series in less than seven games each and made it back to the Stanley Cup final.

There they faced an Oilers team powered by superstars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, and at first it looked like Florida would take the Cup by storm.

The Panthers won the first three games by a combined score of 11-4, but the Oilers fought back and won the next three games by a combined score of 18-5, forcing a Game 7.

Although Edmonton dominated play for most of Game 7, a second-period goal from Reinhart was enough to seal the win and put the Panthers atop the NHL standings.

The Panthers return to action on September 22, with their first preseason game at home against the Nashville Predators, followed by their first regular season game of the 2024–25 season against the Boston Bruins on October 8, where they will raise their Stanley Cup banner.