The annual Teddy Bear Toss 2024 at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham saw Panthers' fans celebrate triumph of their team
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00:00The great start to his Panthers career six points in three games. Yeah, yeah, he's been excellent
00:04I think he had one maybe two assists last night and yeah. No, he's been a huge addition
00:10chance for the stars as it
00:12Looks to come across
00:15Craig moore the former panther looking to put it back out in front of net
00:20I think I think craig moore's probably playing as a forward just so they have kind of three forward lines
00:24As we said they had eight forwards, but I think I think craig moore's plans are forward currently
00:29Yeah, it would make sense but of chance of the panthers as they come away looking in front and it's in
00:36Christophe pontos scores the goal and it's raining cuddly toys. It certainly is
00:46We might be here for a while
00:49And here they come
00:51It's a great tradition every year
00:54It didn't take as long as I thought it would
00:56It didn't two minutes and eight seconds and panthers are in the league christophe contos is with the goal
01:06And now there's a clear up operation on
01:08Yeah, do you know what it's actually?
01:10It's almost kind of a bit of a shame for the panthers this because it kind of stifles that momentum
01:14You know you score and it's you know, you want to get on a roll here
01:18And now there's going to be probably a six seven minute
01:20delay, so
01:22We'll try and keep you entertained with some stories for this next five minutes
01:26I think that's the I do know. They're an awful lot of volunteers have been recruited in
01:32They're all at the zamboni entrance getting the bears off the ice
01:36And you see all the players getting involved including the dundee players, which is great to see
01:41That's the worst bit like the stars have just conceded and they have to help get the teddies off the ice like
01:49And they still I mean it's to be fair they're doing a great job they're clearing it very very quickly
01:54There's still bears coming down
02:02But it's great to see the all these uh
02:05cuddly toys
02:06Will go to needy children
02:09And it's a great cause every year. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and it's great fun
02:13You see all the kids come in, you know with them and they've been planning it for weeks and now it's great
02:17I just hope there's not a um a coach's challenge now
02:21I wouldn't I wouldn't have thought so
02:24It looked it looked a fair enough goal. It's more bears coming along
02:30Young man, they're about to throw them over
02:34I wonder if that's ever happened in a different league where there's been like a challenge and it's been waived off. That'd be awesome
02:43I remember a few years ago
02:46Back in the days when I was a season ticket holder
02:48Someone tried to put an absolutely enormous bear over the plexi
02:53I think it was when you was playing as well. You would have either been in goal or on the bench and
02:59Yeah, I just remember just struggling about five people trying to get this this huge teddy bear over the plexi
03:05There's still some coming on the ice now. I hope no one's holding them back till
03:12And still we clear
03:14But it's been very quick, I would say only probably two or three minutes since since the goal and
03:20The vast majority of uh bears are now down at the zamboni entrance
03:25See him there being thrown out into uh into cages
03:30So let's have a look at the goal that caused all this chaos a great pass across and
03:36Contosi's johnny on the spot through the by bowl of sarbol and panthers on the board. I think it was sam here with the assist
03:45Oh
03:46There you see it's actually off the skate. I think it might be off the skate of the craig moore almost
03:52So it could be that it's sam here's gold. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it looked like there that it didn't even reach contos, but
03:59Unless it was his leg or skate. Did it count if you watch the defenseman?
04:04I think it comes off craig moore's left skate
04:07Yeah
04:09Here's the slow motion
04:12contos kind of swings at it initially, but
04:15From there though. It looks like contos did get some part of his body on it, which would suggest it was his goal
04:23As we clear these
04:26The last few bears and cuddly toys being taken off the ice
04:37Great effort by everyone to get them off so quickly so we can continue the game. Absolutely. Yeah
04:42Yeah, I mean everyone's done a great job
04:43And it's really good for the players to kind of join in and I know especially for the stars
04:47It's obviously frustrating letting that goal in so early
04:50But like you said, they did a great job helping out there. Look at ali st. Clair just wheeling through the neutral zone there
04:56look at
04:57he's with
04:59Skating skills like that. We should be having an injury injury crash. We have to get him kitted up
05:03You should be playing for dundee
05:05Here we go, here we go. So let's have a look
05:08Oh, it is. Yes. It is. It is correct a spot
05:11So it is off craig moore's skate. So it's another so I think that will be some hair's goal
05:20We'll wait for the official announcement
05:31So, I think we're just about ready to go again, uh
05:34Just i'll wait for the zamboni doors to be shut
05:40The last few an hour
05:48And the doors are now being shut so we can continue with the game
05:52Uh, what a fantastic effort by all our volunteers there to get the ice cleared so quickly
05:58So we can continue with the game less than five minutes there. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I mean like
06:03Back in the day when that used to happen it would take forever. So no exactly