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Panthers Sign Samu Salminen To Two-Year Contract

By Gabriel Foley | at September 20, 2026 12:33 pm The Florida Panthers have agreed to terms with forward prospect Samu Salminen on a two-year, entry-level contract. The deal will carry a $980K cap hit and $1.016MM AAV per PuckPedia. Full contract details are outlined accordingly: Year NHL Salary AHL Salary Signing Bonus Performance Bonus 2027-28 $850K $87.5K $102.5K $72.5K 2028-29 $900K $87.5K $107.5K $67.5K The New Jersey Devils held Salminen’s rights until recently. The 23 year old was techn...

Preseason Gameday 1: Florida Panthers vs Carolina Hurricanes

The Florida Panthers will kick off the exhibition season by playing host to the Carolina Hurricanes tonight at Amerant Bank Arena in suburban Sunrise. This is the first four preseason games for the Cats before they open the NHL’s 110th season in Raleigh on September 29. WHEN:  7 p.m. ET WHERE:  Amerant Bank Arena – Sunrise, FL ON THE TUBE:  Scripps SOCIALS:  #TimeToHunt, #CarolinaCulture, #FLAvsCAR,  @LitterBoxCats , LBC  FaceBook ENEMY ...

Preseason Game One Preview: Hurricanes @ Panthers

The World Champion Carolina Hurricanes start their preseason with a match against their nemesis, Florida Panthers on Sunday night in Florida. Game time is 7 P.M. and the game will be streamed from the team’s home page. Carolina released their roster for the game and it is comprised mostly of their second unit from training […]

Report: Patrik Laine to the Detroit Red Wings

The Detroit Red Wings have made headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, and finally, there's some positive news linked to the franchise. TSN's Pierre LeBrun wonders if free-agent forward Patrik Laine is a good fit to sign in Motown. I wonder about Patrik Laine as a possible fit in Detroit ? https://t.co/4NsapYA6zx — Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) September 19, 2026 Laine, 28, has been skating in south Florida and many felt he could be a potential fit with the Lightning or Panthers, but the...

Report: Florida Panthers Talking Connor Hellebuyck Trade

Will Florida Panthers general manager Bill Zito shock the NHL once again? With Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck wanting out of Canada, and currently suspended from the team, trade talks have picked up in a major way. The Panthers continue to be linked despite what many feel is a lack of trade assets. The Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes, and Utah Mammoth are also recently linked, but the Panthers continue to be the wildcard team in play here.  Frank Seravalli: Re Connor Helle...

2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Yegor Midlak

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...

Sam the Man: DU wins season opener 4-3 in overtime against N.C. State

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...

How long Panthers will be without Brad Marchand following surgery

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 […] The post How long Panthers will be without Brad Marchand following surgery appeared first on ClutchPoints .

Connor Hellebuyck Garnered Interest From Eastern Conference Teams

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...

Only One Team Aggressively Pursuing Dylan Larkin Trade

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...

2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Kai Schwindt

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 ...

Panthers’ Marchand and Gadjovich Injured Ahead of NHL Season

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...

Thursday Florida Panthers Preseason Caterwaul

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...

Devils Hire Jessica Campbell, Bryan McCabe

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...

Bill Zito Media Day Press Conference | 9.16.26

Florida Panthers GM Bill Zito speaks with media at Baptist Health IcePlex during Media Day on September 16, 2026. Stay connected with the #FloridaPanthers: Subscribe 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@flapanthers?sub_confirmation=1 Panthers+ 👉 https://www.panthersplus.tv/ Panthers Tickets 👉 https://www.nhl.com/panthers/tickets/ Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/flapanthers/ TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@flapanthers Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/flapanthers Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/fl...

Bruins Will Name A Captain Before Season Opener

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 ...