The Florida Panthers selected under the radar goaltending prospect Yegor Midlak in the seventh round (224th overall) with the final pick of the 2025 NHL Draft held at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
During his draft season, Midlak made five appearances split between HC Spartak Moscow’s two entries in Russia’s top junior league, the MHL. In four games with MHK Spartak, he recorded a 1-0-1 record and posted a 1.06 goals against average and .941 save percentage. He made one relief appearance...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – The ACHA men’s Division I hockey team gave up a late goal on Friday in their season opener to force overtime, but a power play goal by Sammy Mielock in the extra session gave Davenport a 4-3 win over N.C. State. The Panthers and Icepack were meeting for the first time at the ACHA Lake Placid Fall Faceoff to kickoff the 2026-27 season. Jack Kelly scored back-to-back goals in the first six minutes of the second period to give the Panthers a 2-0 cushion. He scored 19 seconds i...
The Florida Panthers are looking forward to getting the season started, but they’ll have to do so without some of their key players as they rehab. One of those players is forward Brad Marchand, who had offseason surgery. Many were wondering when Marchand would be back on the ice for the Panthers, and it looks […]
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Connor Hellebuyck was playing ‘The Bachelor’ over the offseason. Of course, I mean this in the hockey sense. Two teams out of the Atlantic Division, the Buffalo Sabres and the Florida Panthers, were both looking to make a trade for goaltender Connor Hellebuyck over the summer, according to Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Thoughts podcast. Further to this, Friedman said the Jets ideally want a goalie in return; they’re not looking to give up Hellebuyck for future assets in an effort to mitigate the...
On Tuesday (Sept. 16), Florida Panthers General Manager Bill Zito announced at his training camp press conference that Brad Marchand will miss the start of the season recovering from offseason…
Dylan Larkin gave the Detroit Red Wings a list of three teams he'd accept a trade to. Months later, only one of them is actually doing anything to make it happen. Wild Are The Lone Aggressor Detroit Hockey Now's Kevin Allen's latest reporting confirms that of the three teams on Larkin's list, the Florida Panthers, Vegas Golden Knights and Minnesota Wild , only Minnesota is aggressively trying to complete a deal right now. Florida and Vegas have effectively fallen off, with the Wild...
The Florida Panthers signed Kai Schwindt to a three-year, entry-level contract on September 30, 2022 after the undrafted forward put in an impressive showing at the team’s development camp and training camp.
Schwindt even lit the lamp in the Panthers’ 2022 preseason opener, a 4-3 overtime win against the Nashville Predators before he was returned to the Mississauga Steelheads of the Ontario Hockey League.
During his draft season, Schwindt scored 12 goals and added five assists in 68 ...
Some unwelcome news for the Florida Panthers as training camp gets underway. When speaking to the media on Thursday, head coach Paul Maurice revealed that forward Brad Marchand is going to be out for the entire month of October due to rehab, while forward Jonah Gadjovich is also out indefinitely. It was well known that Marchand wasn’t going to be in the lineup at the start of the 2026-27 season. The veteran winger underwent surgery for an unspecified injury in August, with general manager Bill...
Marchand is recovering from offseason surgery that he had back in August.
Paul Maurice wants to maintain balance throughout the Panthers' lineup.
Some news as the Florida Panthers open training camp today for its 33rd season at Baptist Health IcePlex in Fort Lauderdale.
While meeting with reporters yesterday, general manager Bill Zito said that he expects Brad Marchand to return from off-season surgery “early in the season,” but added that the team will be conservative in getting the 38-year-old back on the ice. Marchand dealt with a lower-body injury for most of the 2025-26 season, and with the Panthers out of the playof...
Florida Panthers captain Sasha Barkov says he will miss Sergei Bobrovsky — but is a fan of former and now current teammate Jacob Markstrom. As a rookie back in 2013, Barkov borrowed Markstrom’s car so he could go to the DMV to get his Florida’s driver’s license. Video courtesy @FlaPanthers / PantherVision
By Ethan Hetu | at September 16, 2026 3:18 pm The Seattle Kraken announced today that former Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota Wild GM Chuck Fletcher has been added to the team’s hockey operations department as senior advisor to the general manager. Fletcher was previously a senior advisor for the New Jersey Devils, but left the club amidst the team’s leadership change, which saw former GM Tom Fitzgerald replaced by Florida Panthers assistant GM Sunny Mehta as the team’s new leader of hockey o...
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The Boston Bruins haven't officially named a captain of the team for the upcoming season yet, but their tune has changed. It was confirmed today by Ty Anderson of 98.5 Sports Hub that the Bruins will have a leader to bring the team into the 2026-27 season. Fans have been echoing names such as Charlie McAvoy or David Pastrnak as the next legitimate successor to Brad Marchand , who was the last Bruins captain (2023-25) prior to being traded to the Florida Panthers during the 2024-25 ...
Florida Panthers GM Bill Zito talks at media day at the start of training camp in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. The Panthers open practice on Thursday with their first preseason game on Sunday night against the Carolina Hurricanes. Video Courtesy Florida Panthers / @FlaPanthers / Panthers Vision Where Does Brady Tkachuk Fit with the Panthers? Next to Matthew, of course: https://floridahockeynow.com/where-does-brady-tkachuk-fit-with-the-florida-panthers-right-next-to-matthew-of-...
As the Ottawa Senators take the ice in preparation for the 2026-27 NHL season, they will be without Brady Tkachuk for the first time since 2018. And for head coach Travis Green, it marks his first season at the helm of the Senators without Tkachuk entrenched among his top forwards. So, as Green spoke with reporters Wednesday ahead of the new season, it’s no surprise that Ottawa’s off-season blockbuster that shipped Tkachuk to join his brother in Florida was a hot topic. “It’s been a while now....
Maurice also discussed the prospect of playing Brady Tkachuk with Aleksander Barkov.
Over the summer, the Florida Panthers acquired Brady Tkachuk from the Ottawa Senators. Panthers fans immediately started thinking about where Tkachuk could fit in the lineup, with many fans hoping to see Brady pair with his brother Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett. While it would be one of the most chaotic lines in the NHL, […]
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The Seattle Kraken have added over three decades of experience to their front office. Chuck Fletcher is joining Seattle as the senior advisor to the general manager, the team announced Wednesday. Fletcher first joined the Florida Panthers during their 1993 expansion, serving as general manager for the Panthers’ AHL farm teams in Cincinnati, Louisville and Greensboro until 2001, and as Florida’s general manager for 56 games until 2002. He spent time with the Anaheim Ducks and Pittsburgh Penguin...
The Florida Panthers are letting Brad Marchand return at his own pace. The Hockey News‘ David Dwork was among the reporters who spoke with Panthers general manager Bill Zito Wednesday. During the scrum, Zito said Florida expects Marchand back “early in the season,” adding that the team is taking a conservative approach with his recovery. Marchand’s last game of the 2025-26 season came March 6 against the Detroit Red Wings, where he was held to 11:53 of ice time. He missed Florida’s final 19 ga...
Despite missing 30 games due to injury in 2025-26, Marchand had 27 goals and 54 points with the Panthers.
The Florida Panthers are set to begin the 2026-27 season without Brad Marchand in their lineup, but it’s not something that’s keeping general manager Bill Zito awake at night. While meeting with reporters ahead of training camp on Wednesday, Zito said that he expects Marchand to return from off-season surgery “early in the season,” but added that the team will be conservative in getting the veteran winger back on the ice. Regardless of the timing of Marchand’s return, though, Zito said, it’s “...