Kent and Rhonda Pachal are two proud parents right now, just hours removed from their son Brayden winning the Stanley Cup with the Vegas Golden Knights.

"It's a mood of amazement really," Kent Pachal said. "You know your son plays hockey as a youth and you never expect him to even play in the NHL let alone win a Stanley Cup. His very first game in the NHL was last year and I said to him after the game, 'Well no matter what happens the rest of your life you've played one game and you can always say that you played one game in the NHL.'"

"But now to win a Stanley Cup, it's kind of surreal to tell you the truth."

Pachal said he hasn't even had a chance to speak to Brayden yet.

"We knew that he was going to be a busy guy here, and it's hard to say if he's even had any sleep yet," he said. "But we're going to talk to him soon here...we just want to give him a couple days to soak it all in and be part of winning the Stanley Cup with his team."

Pachal played in just one playoff game with the Golden Knights after playing 10 games in the regular season.

"We found out that he was playing Game 5 against Winnipeg about five minutes before he went on the ice. And even for Brayden, he wasn't expecting to play but to get that opportunity and to play was an amazing experience."

"Just the experience of being around the team, he got to practice with them every day. He was on the playoff roster. The practices had 1,500 to 2,500 fans, especially their last few before the Stanley Cup Final started," Pachal continued. Just an incredible experience and hopefully it'll set him up in his career going forward because this year was a big jump for him as far as his career path and what can happen for him going forward."

Pachal said there's a good chance Brayden will be bringing the Stanley Cup back to Estevan.

"They kind of gave him an outline of what will happen going forward, and one of the things was he's going to be able to bring the cup to Estevan," Pachal. "There's quite a few kids from Saskatchewan on that team, and quite a few from Manitoba. So I'm sure it's going to make its way through Saskatchewan and to Estevan at some point."