Steve Mitchell-US PRESSWIRE
Over the past 10 years, Stephen Weiss has become the face of the Florida Panthers. Drafted by Florida fourth overall at the 2001 NHL Expansion Draft, which coincidentally was held at the Bank Atlantic Center, Weiss has spent his entire career with the Panthers. Through the early parts of his career, there wasn’t much to [...]
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Eric Bolte-US PRESSWIRE
NEW YORK — With talks halting between the NHL and NHLPA in attempts of working out a new collective bargaining agreement, a lockout looks all but certain in the weeks ahead. The NHLPA has made several counter offers to the NHL in which the owners would make a fair amount of money in return, while [...]
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Anne-Marie Sorvin-US PRESSWIRE
The Florida Panthers were struggling offensively early in the 2011-2012 season after being shutout in back to back games against the Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres. Dale Tallon was looking to shake up the roster, improve his team and potentially lose some dead weight. Hear me out here before anyone gets angry–David Booth simply was [...]
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Rob Grabowski-US PRESSWIRE
The Chicago Blackhawks launched a new program for Fan Ambassador’s on Thursday in an attempt to spread word about team events, contests, blog posts and more using social networking sites. To kick off the program the Blackhawks have an autographed Patrick Sharp jersey available to the ambassador who receives the most points by the end [...]
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Brad Barr- US PRESSWIRE
The Florida Panthers hadn’t qualified for the NHL playoffs since the 1999-2000 season, that streak however came to an end last season. South Florida is notorious for having “bandwagon” fans, whether it be with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, NBA’s Miami Heat or the newly renamed Miami Marlins of MLB. The Panthers are no different of [...]
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Anthony Gruppuso-US PRESSWIRE
Colby Robak was drafted by the Florida Panthers in the second round (46th overall) of the 2008 NHL entry draft. After four seasons in the WHL, Robak entered the AHL with Florida’s affiliate, the Rochester Americans, where he registered 24 points in his rookie campaign. In 2011-12, Robak played for the San Antonio Rampage, recording [...]
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Jerome Miron-US PRESSWIRE
The Florida Panthers announced on Monday that their annual rookie tournament held at The Saveology.com Iceplex, the teams practice facility, would be canceled this year. The Tampa Bay Lightning, Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes were all scheduled to participate, but due to the uncertainty of a new collective bargaining agreement being worked out before September [...]
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Kelvin Kuo-US PRESSWIRE
During the off-season rumors fly as to who a team is looking to acquire, or who a team is looking to trade. Currently one slowly circulating the rumor mill would be the Detroit Red Wings being interested in Florida Panthers defenseman Keaton Ellerby. It’s no secret that during free agency the Red Wings focused Ryan [...]
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Marc DesRosiers-US PRESSWIRE
Erik Gudbranson had a shaky start to his rookie season, at times making mistakes that would lead to opposing team scoring chances or even goals. Every young defenseman makes mistakes so it’s to be expected, and it’s definitely forgivable. Currently the Florida Panthers have 7 defenseman under contract for the 2012-2013 season, not including restricted [...]
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