Date: Thursday December 29, 2016 Opponent: Montreal Canadiens Location: BB&T Center Sunrise, FL (Home) Time: 7:30pm   Montreal Canadiens (21-9-5; 47 Points; 1st in the Atlantic; Lost in Overtime to Tampa Bay on Wednesday 4-3) Florida Panthers (15-14-7; 37 Points; 6th in the Atlantic; Lost in the Shootout to Toronto on Wednesday 3-2) Season Series: … Continue reading The Big Cubano Returns: December 29, 2016 Montreal @ Florida

The Panthers injuries continued. This time it's bad. Aleksander Barkov, the team's best forward, left the game early in the 2nd period and did not return. Barkov's injury is undisclosed, although someone tweeted a GIF of him on one of his last shifts blocking a Keith Yandle slapshot in the back. He will miss today's … Continue reading Panthers comeback effort falls short: Toronto 3, Florida 2 SO December 28, 2016

In this post, I will be ranking all 30 NHL teams on what percentage of their total goals for were scored by Defensemen. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas! In the NHL, normally forwards do all of the goal scoring and defenders normally get assists or just handle the grunt work- which is keeping the puck out … Continue reading Goals Scored by Defensemen realtive to total goals percentage

During the 3rd period of the Panthers 3-1 home loss to Boston, Aleksander Barkov scored the Cats only goal of the night. The primary assist deflected off Jaromir Jagr's side. The assist would be Jagr's 1,888th career point, which put him in sole possession of 2nd overall in NHL Career points as he beat Mark … Continue reading Jagr beats Messier

Jonathan Marchessault is set to return to the lineup tonight. However, Roberto Luongo will be out of the lineup. Luongo has a minor undisclosed injury (probably suffered from all of the times he has been ran over recently) but is still expected to start tomorrow night against Detroit. James Reimer starts tonight against Boston with … Continue reading Luongo out tonight

Pittsburgh Penguins       (+3) Chicago Blackhawks       (+1) Columbus Blue Jackets   (+6) New York Rangers            (-3) Montreal Canadiens        (-3) Philadelphia Flyers          (+6) Washington Capitals       (E) San Jose Sharks                 (+4) Ottawa Senators               (+2) Minnesota Wild                (+9) Anaheim Ducks                (+5) St Louis Blues                   (-7) Edmonton Oilers            (-5) Boston Bruins                 (-1) Los Angeles Kings           (+3) Calgary Flames                (+11) Carolina Hurricanes       (+6) … Continue reading NHL Power Rankings: November 23, 2016 to December 21, 2016

President-Elect Donald J Trump announced today that he has nominated the owner of the Florida Panthers NHL Franchise Vincent Viola to be the Secretary of the Army. Viola, a graduate of West Point (1977) is very involved with the army from his service with the 101 Airborne Division to funding and founding the Combating Terrorism … Continue reading Donald Trump nominates Panthers Owner Vincent Viola for Secretary of the Army

On Wednesday, TSN's Darren Dreger posted a series of tweets about Dale Tallon taking the reins again as GM, while Tom Rowe was coaching. This caught the eye of Sun Sentinel Panthers beat writer Harvey Fialkov, who checked the rumor. An hour later, Harvey tweeted that nothing changed. However, Dreger attacked Harvey on it and a twitter war ensured. An … Continue reading The Strange Week the Panthers had

So, I conducted an interview with Panther fan Ray Haluska (Twitter user @CruisingRay) last weekend. He is the owner of jagrometer.com a statistics website dedicated to Panther player and NHL legend Jaromir Jagr. He will be coming down to Florida for the December 10th game. (I forgot to publish this interview so it is dated … Continue reading Interview with Ray Haluska