Stanley Cup coming to Essex County [Video]

The party continues in Florida after the Panthers claimed the franchise’s first Stanley Cup Monday night in a 2-1 game seven win over Edmonton.

“You know we’re going to bring it home. I don’t know if Paul’s (Panther’s head coach) going to be bringing it there too but it’s going to be a party in Lakeshore,” Belle River’s Aaron Ekblad told CTV News this afternoon from a player’s house.

He was working on two hours of sleep after winning the Stanley Cup.

“It’s amazing. I mean everything you could possibly imagine. It’s like a dream, right. You dream of it as a kid but you never really truly believe that it’s going to happen until those seconds tick off the clock. It’s like nothing you could ever imagine,” he said.

Proud parents Dave and Lisa watched their son, chosen first overall by Florida in the 2014 NHL Draft, take his …