Florida Panthers GM Bill Zito talks at media day at the start of training camp in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. The Panthers open practice on Thursday with their first preseason game on Sunday night against the Carolina Hurricanes. Video Courtesy Florida Panthers / @FlaPanthers / Panthers Vision Where Does Brady Tkachuk Fit with the Panthers? Next to Matthew, of course: https://floridahockeynow.com/where-does-brady-tkachuk-fit-with-the-florida-panthers-right-next-to-matthew-of-...
As the Ottawa Senators take the ice in preparation for the 2026-27 NHL season, they will be without Brady Tkachuk for the first time since 2018. And for head coach Travis Green, it marks his first season at the helm of the Senators without Tkachuk entrenched among his top forwards. So, as Green spoke with reporters Wednesday ahead of the new season, it’s no surprise that Ottawa’s off-season blockbuster that shipped Tkachuk to join his brother in Florida was a hot topic. “It’s been a while now....
Maurice also discussed the prospect of playing Brady Tkachuk with Aleksander Barkov.
Over the summer, the Florida Panthers acquired Brady Tkachuk from the Ottawa Senators. Panthers fans immediately started thinking about where Tkachuk could fit in the lineup, with many fans hoping to see Brady pair with his brother Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett. While it would be one of the most chaotic lines in the NHL, […]
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The Seattle Kraken have added over three decades of experience to their front office. Chuck Fletcher is joining Seattle as the senior advisor to the general manager, the team announced Wednesday. Fletcher first joined the Florida Panthers during their 1993 expansion, serving as general manager for the Panthers’ AHL farm teams in Cincinnati, Louisville and Greensboro until 2001, and as Florida’s general manager for 56 games until 2002. He spent time with the Anaheim Ducks and Pittsburgh Penguin...
The Florida Panthers are letting Brad Marchand return at his own pace. The Hockey News‘ David Dwork was among the reporters who spoke with Panthers general manager Bill Zito Wednesday. During the scrum, Zito said Florida expects Marchand back “early in the season,” adding that the team is taking a conservative approach with his recovery. Marchand’s last game of the 2025-26 season came March 6 against the Detroit Red Wings, where he was held to 11:53 of ice time. He missed Florida’s final 19 ga...
Despite missing 30 games due to injury in 2025-26, Marchand had 27 goals and 54 points with the Panthers.
The Florida Panthers are set to begin the 2026-27 season without Brad Marchand in their lineup, but it’s not something that’s keeping general manager Bill Zito awake at night. While meeting with reporters ahead of training camp on Wednesday, Zito said that he expects Marchand to return from off-season surgery “early in the season,” but added that the team will be conservative in getting the veteran winger back on the ice. Regardless of the timing of Marchand’s return, though, Zito said, it’s “...
The Florida Panthers have released the roster for its 2026-27 training camp session.
With a shortened preseason slate and no rookie camp, the Cats have 51 players in camp as opposed to 72 last year. The roster consists of 30 forwards, 16 defensemen and five goalies.
Let’s take a look and the names and numbers.
Forwards: Brady Tkachuk (8), Sam Bennett (9),. Nathan Bastian (11), Jonah Gadjovich (12), Sam Reinhart (13), Bokondji Imama (14), Anton Lundell (15), Aleksander Barkov (15...
Bastian recorded six goals and seven points in 36 games with Dallas in the 2025-26 season.
With its final selection in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, the Florida Panthers took towering goaltender Louis-Antoine Denault in the seventh round (217th overall) with the pick the Panthers received from the Minnesota Wild for veteran defenseman Jeff Petry.
After going undrafted in 2025, Denault attended development camp with the Panthers as an invitee and was one of three goalies the team took to the NHL Prospect Tournament in Wesley Chapel, FL in September, so he must have made a good ...
Outside of Gavin McKenna, Nick Paul was probably the most unexpected signing of the Toronto Maple Leafs‘ offseason. While there were rumours connecting the Maple Leafs to both Darren Raddysh (Paul’s Lightning teammate) and former Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, the trade for Paul came out of left field. The Leafs acquired him in a…
Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky has accomplished everything one could possibly achieve in the NHL, but he’s still motivated at 37 to return to career-best form. Bobrovsky joined the Maple Leafs on a three-year pact worth $7 million on July 1, once it became evident that the Florida Panthers weren’t going to retain him….
Three players the Florida Panthers could lose on waivers if they put them on it. The Carolina Hurricanes have some internal options if they trade Alexander Nikishin.
Three players the Florida Panthers could lose on waivers if they put them on it. The Carolina Hurricanes have some internal options if they trade Alexander Nikishin.
Stepping onto the ice for training camp, the Ottawa Senators aren’t just looking to punch another playoff ticket — they are out to prove that they can transition from a post-season regular into a legitimate championship threat. For the past five seasons, the Senators have been focused on building around Brady Tkachuk, but now the focus shifts toward moving in a new direction following his trade to the Florida Panthers. General manager Steve Staios wasted no time trying to fill the void left by...
The Florida Panthers selected rangy, left-shot defenseman Jonas Kemps in the fourth round (98th overall) of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft held at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, NY.
Kemps spent his draft season with the Chicago Steel of the USHL, appearing in 57 of the team’s 62 regular season games. He scored two goals, added seven assists, amassed 52 penalty minutes and finished the campaign with a minus-seven rating.
Unfortunately, playoff hockey was not in the cards for Kemps as the Steel ...
The Florida Panthers have an immensely talented roster up and down the lineup, with some key pieces as fixtures. They have even acquired some new pieces, which many believe will…
The last two Selke Trophy winners, Aleksander Barkov and Nick Suzuki, are sure to be fighting for a spot in the top 10 of TSN’s list of the top 50 NHL players. TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button and TSN Hockey analyst Frankie Corrado debate which player deserves to be ranked higher ahead of next week’s reveal.
The Florida Panthers selected obscure goaltending prospect Denis Gabdrakhmanov in the seventh round (201st overall) of the 2024 NHL Draft held at the astounding Sphere in Paradise, Nevada.
During his draft season, Gabdrakhmanov made 40 appearances with Tyumenski Legion, the most games played by a goaltender in Russia’s MHL in 2023-24, recording a 10-20-7 record and posting a 2.55 goals against average, .924 save percentage and one shutout.
The 2024-25 season saw Gabdrakhmanov again s...
By Brian La Rose | at September 11, 2026 8:59 pm Around a year and a half ago, forward Karsen Dorwart was one of the top undrafted college free agents in the 2025 class after an impressive three years at Michigan State University. Things haven’t gone as well in the pros, however, as he found himself an unrestricted free agent once again this summer. Dorwart now has a place to play for the upcoming season as AHL Charlotte, affiliate of the Panthers, announced that they’ve signed him to a one-ye...
The Ottawa Senators had a lot of change happen this offseason. It seemed as if things would operate as normal until a few days before the NHL Draft. Then, the Senators traded Brady Tkachuk in a stunning blockbuster deal with the Florida Panthers. Tkachuk trade rumors weren’t anything new, to be fair. There was once […]
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Bryan Hayes, Jeff O’Neill and Jamie McLennan discuss Florida Panthers forward Brady Tkachuk being outside of the TSN Top 50 list.