In order to make a fair judgment of the Florida Panthers deadline moves, a timeline needs to be established. The trade deadline was just the end of the beginning of what is supposed to be a four step process, all of which I’ll get into, hopefully without rambling too much and losing your interest.
The Panthers’ [...]
The Florida Panthers organization made headlines before the Olympic break when a letter from co-owners Cliff Viner and Stu Siegel to season ticket holders called out the team and promised big changes. One change was made before the break, sending Dominic Moore to Montreal in exchange for a 2nd round draft pick in 2011.
Well, the [...]
With the Olympic break heading towards an exciting conclusion and NHL teams getting ready to fire things back up going into the trade deadline, I’d like to take a moment to step away from my role here as a Florida Panthers contributor and take a look at something personal to me. While “Sun Belt” hockey [...]
The streak is sorrowful. The numbers are numbing. The feeling is forlorn. What else can be said about the state of the Florida Panthers? Well to start, the facts. Winless in 4 straight. 13 goals scored in the last 11 games. Needless to say, the Cats haven’t scored 3 goals in 1 game since January [...]
My last article centered around the fact that the Panthers were somehow finding ways to win despite an extraordinarily anemic offense. Tomas Vokoun was coming off of a 3-shutout-in-8-game streak. Fast forward 4 more games, and the story remains the same. No offense to speak of, add one shutout to Vokoun’s NHL leading tally. [...]
The following statistic may astound you, so you might want to find a chair (although why you would be standing and using your computer is beyond me…). The Florida Panthers are 5-1-2 in their last 8 games. What, not shocked? What if I told you the Panthers had scored a total of 4 goals in [...]
The Florida Panthers are back to their winning ways. After closing out 2009 with a 1-4-0 stretch of mediocrity, the Cats have managed to climb back into the playoff hunt with a 5-2-1 record since New Years Day. And it’s not just that they’ve started winning again, it’s the manner in which they are doing [...]
The Panthers closed the book on the 2009 portion of this season on yet another downturn, losing 3 straight. They fell to 13th in the conference before they played their first game in 2010. Granted, the difference between 13th and 7th is a paltry 4 points, but I digress. Is there a serious reason to [...]
4-0-1 in their last 5. Points in 8 of their last 10. Solo 8th place (at the time this was written, anyways). Don’t look now, folks, but the Florida Panthers are streaking again. But this recent run has a much different feel then their November stretch in which they went 8-2-1. This 5 game streak [...]
Fans of the Florida Panthers are having a heck of time figuring out how to feel about their home team. 7 of the team’s 15 home games have gone to extra time. Free hockey, as the saying goes, for those who paid for 60 minutes. The Cats have gone to OT 5 times on the [...]
