Only a day after the Panthers won the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Edmonton Oilers in Florida, Matthew Tkachuk did something with the Cup that went viral: he threw it in the Ocean.
A lot of reactions came in after he did it, and most were positive. However, a new development confirmed that Tkachuk could be in hot water..
It turns out that salt water and silver don't mix well together, and he wasn't allowed to throw it in the ocean.
Matthew Tkachuk opened up in a recent interview about how it happened:
Later, he shared that his brother Brady was actually the one who came up with the idea:
More to come.
Source: The Hockey News
Tkachuk explains who came up with idea of taking Stanley Cup into Atlantic Ocean
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