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Sunday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
In The Athletic’s Which NHL jerseys should make a comeback? One pick for every team article, the staff picked the Florida Panthers 2022-23 Reverse Retro with James Mirtle having this to say: Panthers fans love this thing. Maybe it’s the sky blue. Maybe it’s the other throwback colors. Or maybe it’s the fact that it acts like the ultimate recruiting tool, mocking opponents in Winnipeg in February with its sunshine and palm tree. And then, a few months later, they all want to sign in Sunris...
Saturday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
Today marks the final day of play at the World Junior Summer Showcase in Windsor, Ontario. Expect 2026 Florida Panthers sixth-rounder Vilho Vanhatalo to be in the lineup when Finland (1-3) takes on nemesis Sweden at noon. The 18-year-old Vanhatalo has played in all four games and has put up a goal and an assist. The event closes with a battle between the United States and Canada at 4 p.m. Did 2025 fourth-rounder Shea Busch do enough in Thursday’s 5-3 win over the Finns to make the lineup ...
Friday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
The Florida Panthers fell from fourth to eighth in The Athletic’s yearly NHL contract efficiency rankings . Dom Luszczyszyn had this to say about the Cats, who still received an A- grade after a tough, injury-riddled season: The Panthers are still in the top 10 after a rough year, but don’t rank as highly as they once did. Age, injuries and some recent extensions signed that were just fair (Eetu Luostarinen, Niko Mikkola) play a role, but it has more to do with the rest of the l...
Thursday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
The Florida Panthers fell from fourth to eighth in The Athletic’s yearly NHL contract efficiency rankings . Dom Luszczyszyn had this to say about the Cats, who still received an A- grade after a tough, injury-riddled season: The Panthers are still in the top 10 after a rough year, but don’t rank as highly as they once did. Age, injuries and some recent extensions signed that were just fair (Eetu Luostarinen, Niko Mikkola) play a role, but it has more to do with the rest of the l...
Wednesday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
The Florida Panthers dynamic duo of Aleksander Barkov and Sam Bennett were ranked third in The Athletic’s Every NHL team’s top-6 center duos, ranked from best to worst article. Barkov and Bennett were placed in the second tier (Elite) with Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon and Brock Nelson. Edmonton’s Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl topped the list, as they were only duo ranked Generational. Here’s what writer Harman Dayal had to be say about Barkov and Bennett: This might be a tad too high f...
2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Albert Wikman
The Florida Panthers selected mobile Swedish defenseman Albert Wikman in the fourth round (127th overall) of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft in Nashville. Wikman is a smooth-skating blueliner with decent size who excels in transition and at best, projects to be a bottom-pairing guy at the NHL level unless he can add some offense and physicality to his game as he develops to lift his ceiling. During his draft year, he suited up at two different levels for the Färjestad BK organization during...
2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Albert Wikman
The Florida Panthers selected mobile Swedish defenseman Albert Wikman in the fourth round (127th overall) of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft in Nashville. Wikman is a smooth-skating blueliner with decent size who excels in transition and at best, projects to be a bottom-pairing guy at the NHL level unless he can add some offense and physicality to his game as he develops to lift his ceiling. During his draft year, he suited up at two different levels for the Färjestad BK organization during...
2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Linus Eriksson
Tthe Florida Panthers selected Swedish center Linus Eriksson in the second round (58th overall) of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft held at Sphere in Paradise, NV. During his busy draft season, the well-rounded Eriksson split his time between Djurgårdens IF’s professional team in the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan and its squad in the J20 Nationell. In 29 games with the men, Eriksson put up a respectable three goals and eight assists while acqutting himself well in a bottom-six role. He ...
Sunday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
In addition to Akira Schmid signing with the Florida Panthers, Cole Sillinger and Alex Jefferies also signed new contracts on Friday, meaning all fifteen of the restricted free agents that filed for arbitration received new deals without having to go to court. The Columbus Blue Jackets avoided arbitration by reaching an agreement with Sillinger on a three-year contract worth $13.875 million. Sillinger matched his career-high in points last season with 33 while collecting a career-best 25 ...
Panthers sign goalie Akira Schmid to contract
The Florida Panthers have signed restricted free agent goaltender Akira Schmid to a two-year contract worth $4 million, avoiding an arbitration hearing scheduled for August 1. Schmid, who will share the net with Jacob Markstrom, was acquired from the Vegas Golden Knights for a third-round pick in the 2028 NHL Entry Draft on June 29. The 26-year-old went 16-10-6 with a 2.59 goals-against average, .893 save percentage and two shutouts in 34 games this past season for the Pacific Divisi...
Panthers sign goalie Akira Schmid to contract
The Florida Panthers have signed restricted free agent goaltender Akira Schmid to a two-year contract worth $4 million, avoiding an arbitration hearing scheduled for August 1. Schmid, who will share the net with Jacob Markstrom, was acquired from the Vegas Golden Knights for a third-round pick in the 2028 NHL Entry Draft on June 29. The 26-year-old went 16-10-6 with a 2.59 goals-against average, .893 save percentage and two shutouts in 34 games this past season for the Pacific Divisi...
Friday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
Franchise legend Patrick Kane reunited with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday, signing a two-year contract worth $16 million. The 37-year-old Kane remains productive, amassing 163 points in 189 games over the last three seasons with the Detroit Red Wings. He put up 16 goals and 41 assists in 67 games last season. Jet Greaves and the Columbus Blue Jackets agreed to a three-year, $15-million contract just before a scheduled arbitration hearing. Greaves is coming off a strong season, ...
2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Stepan Zvyagin
With its final choice of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft in Nashville, the Florida Panthers selected Belarusian forward Stepan Zvyagin in the seventh round (198th overall) from the KHL’s Dinamo Minsk organization. In 15 KHL games with Dinamo during his draft season, Zvyagin netted one goal. He was much more productive against his peer group, racking up 14 goals and 33 points in 37 games with Babruysk Dinamo-Shinnik of the MHL. He also played nine games for Belarus internationally, totaling ...
Wednesday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
The Florida Panthers re-signed prospect defenseman Mikulas Hovorka to a one-year, two-way contract worth $850K at the NHL level and $100K at the AHL level. Hovorka produced five goals and 13 assists while posting an impressive plus-23 rating in 57 games with the Charlotte Checkers. The 25-year-old made four appearances with the Panthers and collected his first NHL assist in the season-finale against the Detroit Red Wings. Restricted free agent forward Jason Robertson and the Dallas Stars ...
Tuesday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
The Athletic’s Shayna Gokdman and Dom Luszczyszyn ran a mock 2027 expansion draft to stock a hypothetical 33rd team (located in Austin or Houston) and Eetu Luostarinen was the player Florida Panthers lost in the thought exercise. Florida’s division rivals in Montreal made a pair of signings on Monday, inking centers Jared Davidson and Hunter McKown to identical one-year, two-way deals that pay $850K at the NHL level and $135K at the AHL level. The 24-year-old Davidson played his firs...
2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Cooper Black
The Florida Panthers agreed to terms with undrafted goaltender Cooper Black on a two-year, entry-level contract on April 2, 2024 after the towering stopper completed his season season of NCAA hockey with Dartmouth College. As a sophomore, Black appeared in 30 games with the Big Green in 2023-24, posting a 13-8-8 record, .910 save percentage, 2.58 goals against average and two shutouts en route to being named a finalist for the Ken Dryden ECAC Goaltender of the Year Award. The first of his...
Florida Panthers Weekend Offseason Caterwaul
The Florida Panthers appear three times in Sportsnet’s Most compelling games on 2026-27 NHL schedule with writer Emily Sadler flagging this trio of tilts involving the Cats: Hurricanes raise the banner, then up the ante — Panthers @ Hurricanes, September 29 After hoisting the Stanley Cup in June, the Hurricanes will open the 2026-27 season with one final celebration as they raise their banner to the rafters. And then the real fun begins as they officially launch their campaign to run...
Friday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
The Florida Panthers will open the 2026-27 regular season with a four-game road trip against the 2026 Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes (September 29), up and coming San Jose Sharks (October 1), Anaheim Ducks (October 4) and Los Angeles Kings (October 6) before they return to South Florida to begin the home slate against the Minnesota Wild on October 10. Florida’s home schedule features 13 games on Saturdays, eight games on Thursdays, six games on Tuesdays, five games on Mondays, four g...
Thursday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
We know the Florida Panthers will be on the road to open the season with dates against the Carolina Hurricanes, San Jose Sharks, Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings, and this afternoon we’ll know everything else as the complete NHL regular season schedule will be unveiled. In concert with the 1 p.m. release, NHL Network will air a one-hour special edition of “NHL Tonight” hosted by Jamison Coyle, Thomas Hickey and E.J. Hradek. The program will also stream on NHL.com for those of us who sh...
Panthers will open the 2026-27 season on the road
The NHL released all 32 home-openers for the upcoming 2026-27 season this morning and because of that, we now know the dates and opponents for five of the Florida Panthers games. Florida will start the campaign with a visit to Lenovo Center in Raleigh on September 29 to take on the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes to kick off an opening night tripleheader on ESPN. After that they will head to California where they serve as the opponent for the home-openers of the Sa...
2026 Panthers Prospect Profile: Stepan Gorbunov
During the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, the Florida Panthers traded its fifth-round pick (141st overall) to the Seattle Kraken for a sixth and seventh-rounder and used the first of those two selections (169th overall) on center Stepan Gorbunov, a towering project who could turn out to be a late-round steal. During his draft season, Gorbunov appeared in 40 MHL games for Belye Medvedi Chelyabinsk and finished with 10 goals and 22 points to catch the attention of Bill Zito and his scouting staff. ...
Tuesday Florida Panthers Offseason Caterwaul
Recently acquired goaltender Akira (Akira, Akira) Schmid and the Florida Panthers have an arbitration hearing scheduled for August 1. Schmid, a restricted free agent, was tendered a qualfiying offer by the Vegas Golden Knights before he was traded to the Panthers for a third round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft on June 29. Peyton Krebs also had a hearing on the slate for August 1, but he agreed to a four-year deal worth $18 million with the Buffalo Sabres. The 25-year-old forward produced a c...
2026 Prospect Profile: Vladislav Lukashevich
The Florida Panthers selected Russian defenseman Vladislav Lukashevich in the fourth round (120th overall) of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. During his draft season, Lukashevich appeared in 36 games for Loko Yaroslavl, a junior team in Russia’s MHL. He produced three goals and 19 points while serving as the club’s assistant captain. Lukashevich would play two more seasons in the MHL before making his way to North America, joining the USHL’s Tri-City Storm for the 2023-24 campaign. In...
Florida Panthers Weekend Offseason Caterwaul
Sportnet’s One Lingering Offseason Question For Each NHL Team had this to say about our Cats: Florida Panthers: Any more surprises up their sleeve? There doesn’t appear to be any business left to do in Florida this summer. They have 14 forwards and seven defencemen on the roster and everyone is signed. In fact, they got way out ahead of Eetu Luostarinen, signing him to an eight-year extension while his current deal still has a season left. The one contract left to sort out is A...
Florida Panthers Weekend Offseason Caterwaul
The Montreal Canadiens signed Bogdan Konyushkov to a two-year, entry-level contract that carries a cap hit of $1,013,750. The 23-year old defenseman will be loaned back to his KHL team Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod for the upcoming season. Konyushkov was selected in the fourth round (110th overall) of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. Staying in the Atlantic Division, the Ottawa Senators re-signed forward Tyler Boucher to a one-year, two-way deal worth $850K. A former first-round pick, Boucher, 24, put...
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