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The 2026-27 NHL season begins on Tuesday, September 29, and ESPN will celebrate the festivities with an opening night tripleheader. ESPN recently announced that the network will televise three NHL games on opening night, beginning with the banner-raising ceremony for the defending champion Carolina Hurricanes. The Hurricanes will host the Florida Panthers at 5 p.m.…
The Carolina Hurricanes released their full schedule, and I can’t help stare at the Florida Panthers matchups. The first game […]
Teddy Richards has been with the franchise for the past 10 seasons, having also worked with USA Hockey.
The National Hockey League released the schedules for their teams on Thursday. The World Champion, Carolina Hurricanes, will start things off with a match against the Florida Panthers on September 29, at 5 PM. The Canes, who year after year need to have several away games during the annual October State Fair, will have four […]
The former Senators captain was dealt to the Panthers in one of the summer’s biggest trades.
You rarely hear Keane speak like this.
With the 2026 NHL Draft behind us, let's take a look back at some of the greatest selections in NHL history. In this piece, we will name the greatest draft pick of all time from each of the 32 NHL teams. However, to make this a bit more difficult, we will only include names who […]
The NHL has released the schedule for opening night. The defending Stanley Cup Champion, the Carolina Hurricanes, will be taking to the ice that night. It is one of five games on opening night, according to the release from the NHL. As part of a triple header on ESPN on September 29, the Hurricanes will […] The post Hurricanes to raise championship banner against Panthers on opening night appeared first on ClutchPoints .
It’s official: the NHL released the home-opener schedule for all 32 teams on Wednesday morning (July 15). For the first time, the season will begin in September instead of the…
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...
Frederik Andersen ended up in Edmonton , but he very nearly landed somewhere else entirely. Per Elliotte Friedman, there was a strong belief that Andersen would sign with the Florida Panthers before they pivoted and acquired Jacob Markstrom instead. That shift opened the door for the Oilers to step in and secure the veteran goaltender on a one-year, incentive-laden deal. How Edmonton Landed Him The Panthers entered the offseason with a big need in net. Sergei Bobrovsky was heading toward free ...
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. ...
Even before the glowing review from the Florida Panthers superstar, I thought all along that New Jersey Devils fans were […]
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...
Matthew Tkachuk is genuinley sad to see his former teammates leave for the New Jersey Devils. The Florida Panthers star […]
It may take some time to get used to Sergei Bobrovsky wearing No. 72 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and this dynamic may become more pronounced against divisional rivals. Bobrovsky joined the Maple Leafs on a three-year contract worth $7 million per season, after the Panthers elected to bring in Jacob Markstrom and Akira Schmid…
Sergei Bobrovsky‘s move from Florida to Toronto has already been one of the offseason’s biggest storylines, but a new detail from insider Elliotte Friedman suggests there’s more to the move…
The big news on Thursday was that Leo Carlsson will remain a member of the Anaheim Ducks. Carlsson, a 21-year-old center, signed a five-year, $90 million contract with the Ducks after they matched an offer sheet tendered by the Philadelphia Flyers on July 3. The contract has an average annual value of $18 million, the richest in NHL history. Anaheim’s match came a day after the Utah Mammoth matched an offer sheet tendered to Barrett Hayton by the New Jersey Devils. There was some other bu...
Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman is playing hardball with captain Dylan Larkin, after Larkin requested a trade over a month ago. Trade talks have gone nowhere, and Yzerman recently admitted it's not out of the question to see Larkin at Red Wings' training camp come September. Larkin originally submitted a list of three teams he'd accept a trade to, and they included the Minnesota Wild, Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers, and since trade talks have stalled, it's now being ...
The Florida Panthers went completely off the board with its selection of Swedish goaltender Olof Glifford in the fifth round (159th overall) of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. At the time, Glifford was a virtual ghost online and unranked by both NHL Central Scouting and Elite Prospects. It was difficult to find video of him, but it’s not surprising he was on Florida’s radar. In fact, the pick came courtesy of the club’s Goaltending Excellence Department. After the draft, general manager Bi...
The New York Rangers helped their defense corps and prospect pipeline last week when they traded veteran center Vincent Trocheck […]
The Ottawa Senators have re-signed veteran forward Claude Giroux to a one-year contract with a $2 million base salary that can be worth up to $5 million in bonuses. In four seasons with the Senators, Giroux, briefly a member of the Florida Panthers, has missed just one regular season game. He scored a career-high 35 goals in 2022-23 and followed that up with 21 the next season. Restriced free agent defenseman Simon Nemec inked a five-year contract worth $36.25 million with the C...
The only teams Larkin is reportedly interested in are the Panthers, Wild and Golden Knights.
Devils GM Sunny Mehta and Comets GM Braden Birch have begun revamping the AHL franchise. Here’s a look at some of the early summer roster changes. Out With the Old Utica’s goal leader last season, Angus Crookshank, was shipped off to the Florida Panthers in the Jacob Markstrom trade. Defenseman Calen Addison and forward Dylan […]
Sure sounds like the Ottawa Senators turned on their captain months ago. Multiple reports have surfaced stating there was several Ottawa Senators players who had concerns over Brady Tkachuk doing a podcast with his brother, Matthew, a forward of the Florida Panthers. Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman commented on the 'podcast saga' on a recent episode of 32 Thoughts and opened up about what's been going on within the Senators' dressing room. “It was time,” Friedman said of the trade on the p...