{"id":75521,"date":"2025-06-15T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/75521\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T08:38:10","slug":"an-nhl-fan-inexplicably-switched-team-jerseys-during-the-panthers-stanley-cup-game-5-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/75521\/","title":{"rendered":"An NHL fan inexplicably switched team jerseys during the Panthers&#8217; Stanley Cup Game 5 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/florida-panthers-(nhl)\/4979\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida Panthers<\/a> brought the heat to Edmonton during Game 5 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Finals on Saturday night, seemingly causing one fan to literally swap jerseys during third period.<\/p>\n<p>After Panthers winger Brad Marchand tallied his second goal of the game, the TNT game broadcast caught one fan taking off their Oilers jersey to reveal they were wearing a Panthers jersey underneath.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Was this just a Florida fan in disguise finally comfortable enough to reveal their true alliances? Was this a sad Edmonton fan finally bailing on his team and giving into Florida fandom once and for all? Was this just a fair-weather fan going with the momentum shift, prepared with both jerseys? We may never know!<\/p>\n<p>However, we do know the fan eventually got to see their team (?) snag a 5-2 victory and go up 3-2 in the championship series.<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate the Panthers on a job well done on the road, but we have no idea to congratulate this fan or not because we are just baffled by what we just watched.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2025\/06\/14\/an-nhl-fan-inexplicably-switched-jerseys-during-the-panthers-game-5-win\/84215031007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:An NHL fan inexplicably switched team jerseys during the Panthers&#039; Game 5 win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">An NHL fan inexplicably switched team jerseys during the Panthers&#8217; Game 5 win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers brought the heat to Edmonton during Game 5 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Finals on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[254,198,6911,5,4,24,63,300],"class_list":{"0":"post-75521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-brad-marchand","9":"tag-edmonton","10":"tag-fan","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-stanley-cup-finals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114686479786437657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}