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Florida panthers
founding June 14, 1993
history Florida Panthers
since 1993
Stadion BB&T Center
Location Sunrise , Florida
Team colors Navy blue, red, gold, white
league National Hockey League
Conference Eastern Conference
division Atlantic Division
Head coach CanadaCanada Joel Quenneville
Team captain Flag of Finland and Russia.svg Aleksander Barkov
General manager vacant
owner United StatesUnited States Alan Cohen Bernie Kosar
United StatesUnited States
Cooperations Springfield Thunderbirds ( AHL )
Stanley Cups no
Conference title 1995/96
Division title 2011/12 , 2015/16

The Florida Panthers ( IPA : [ˈflɒɚɪdə ˈpænˌθɚs] ) are an American ice hockey franchise of the National Hockey League from Sunrise , Florida . It was founded on June 14, 1993 and started playing at the beginning of the 1993/94 season . The team colors are navy blue, red, gold and white.

The Panthers play their home games at the BB&T Center and are the league's southernmost franchise. Faster than all other teams that were founded in the early 1990s, the Panthers reached the final series of the Stanley Cup in their third season in 1995/96 , in which they were defeated. After this furious start, however, there were no further great successes in the following years. Over the next ten years, the Panthers missed the playoffs eight times.

history

In 1992, H. Wayne Huizenga , chairman of Blockbuster Inc. , received the NHL license for a team in his hometown of Miami . For the 1993/94 season the game was started, the new franchise carried out its home games in the Miami Arena . The first stars on the team were John Vanbiesbrouck , former New York Rangers goalkeeper , and the two rookies Rob Niedermayer and Scott Mellanby , who scored 30 goals in his first season. By narrowly missing the play-offs of the Eastern Conference , the Panthers started as one of the most successful expansion teams in NHL history. After the Florida Panthers could not reach the play-offs in the following season , the then coach Roger Neilson was dismissed and replaced by Doug MacLean . In 1995/96 the Panthers reached the NHL play-offs for the first time in their club's history and signed Ray Sheppard from the San Jose Sharks , who in turn had missed the final series, before the end of the transfer window . In the first play-off round, the Florida team defeated the Boston Bruins in five games, after further victories against the Philadelphia Flyers in the semifinals, the Panthers reached a conference final for the first time, which won in seven games against the Pittsburgh Penguins and thus that Stanley Cup final has been reached. There they lost, however, smoothly in 0-4 games against the Colorado Avalanche .

During this extremely successful season, the Panthers fans also enjoyed an extraordinary goal celebration. On one game evening, a rat is said to have found its way into the panthers' cabin, the animal is said to have been killed by Scott Mellanby with a so-called "one timer" shot. That evening Mellanby scored two goals, which were then referred to by goalie Vanbiesbrouck as a "advice trick" , based on a hat-trick . Since the news reached the public, fans have celebrated goals of the Panthers by throwing rubber rats onto the ice surface.

In the 1996/97 season , the Panthers started with a series of 17 unbeaten games, due to injuries and personnel changes such as the departures of Kirk Muller and Stu Barnes , but they finally failed in the first play-off round at New York Rangers .

After a poor start to the 1997/98 series , the team fired its coach Doug MacLean, who was then replaced by general manager Bryan Murray . This also did not change anything in the worst season so far, u. a. with a streak of 15 consecutive games without a win. This series also meant that John Vanbiesbrouck was no longer used in goal and moved to the Philadelphia Flyers as a free agent after the season .

In 1998 the Florida Panthers moved to the new National Car Rental Center (today's BB&T Center), and in a “blockbuster trade”, Pawel Bure was signed by the Vancouver Canucks during the season . The play-offs could also be reached in 2000 , but they failed in the first round at the later Stanley Cup winner New Jersey Devils .

In the following two years the Florida Panthers disappeared visibly into mediocrity and played their worst season ever in 2001/02 . In addition, greats like Bure left the club. In the 2002 NHL Entry Draft they wanted to pull the promising defensive talent Jay Bouwmeester , but the first-round pick was sent in a controversial transfer to the Columbus Blue Jackets , which in turn drafted Rick Nash . After the Atlanta Thrashers drew Kari Lehtonen in the first round, they stated that the Panthers had given them two picks so Bouwmeester could move to Florida. Eventually, the Panthers drew the defender third in the first round. President Mike Keenan later stated, "shouldn't have done that… Jay would have been number-one if we'd kept that pick." We shouldn't have done that ... Jay would have been drawn first if we had keep the draft pick )

In 2003 the Florida Panthers hosted the NHL All-Star Games , which the Western Conference team won with a 6-5 overtime win.

On June 23, 2006 another "blockbuster trade" took place with the Vancouver Canucks , Roberto Luongo , Lukáš Krajíček , and a six-round draft pick were transferred to Canada by the Panthers in exchange for Todd Bertuzzi , Alex Auld , and Bryan Allen . Critics called the move in retrospect, however, the "worst trade in NHL history", also because Bertuzzi was transferred to the Detroit Red Wings during the season .

The first spectacular transfer for the 2007/08 season on the part of the Panthers took place on June 22, 2007, when the team from Sunrise Tomáš Vokoun signed in exchange for three draft picks from the Nashville Predators .

Venues

The BB&T Center
The Panthers played in the Miami Arena until 1998.

The Panthers have played their home games at the BB&T Center , a 19,250-seat multifunctional arena , since 1998 . The hall planned as Broward County Civic Arena was named National Car Rental Center after the construction phase was completed . From 2002 to 2005 the arena was named after the sponsor Office Depot Center . In 2005 BankAtlantic bought the naming rights to the arena and gave it the name BankAtlantic Center . The company originally held the naming rights for the arena until 2015 and was supposed to pay 22 million US dollars for it for the entire duration of 10 years. The naming rights have belonged to BB&T , a US credit institution and investment company , since September 2012 . The contract has a term of ten years.

From 1993 to 1998 the club played in the Miami Arena , which opened in 1988 and has a capacity of 14,696 for ice hockey events. The Miami Arena is located in downtown Miami . Even before the Panthers were founded, the arena was home to the Miami Heat basketball team . From the beginning, the owners of the Panthers were looking for their own new stadium. The decision to move to the Broward County Civic Arena (now called the BB&T Center) was made in the summer of 1996 and was completed two years later.

Farm teams

The Panthers, like all other NHL teams, also include teams in lower-class leagues , so-called farm teams . In the case of the Panthers, these have been the Springfield Thunderbirds in the American Hockey League since 2016 .

The farm teams are often used in the NHL to prepare the young players and rookies for the NHL games. Like the other clubs, the Panthers draw their offspring from the NHL Entry Draft , through which the most promising young players enter the league every year.

The Florida Panthers farm teams since 1993:

Period team league
1993-1996 Birmingham Bulls ECHL
1993-1997 Cincinnati Cyclones IHL
1995-1997 Carolina Monarchs AHL
1996-1997 Port Huron Border Cats CoHL
1996-1998 Tallahassee Tiger Sharks ECHL
1997-2001 Port Huron Border Cats UHL
1997-1999 Texas Wildcatters ECHL
Period team league
1997-1999 Beast of New Haven AHL
1998-1999 Miami matadors ECHL
1998-1999 Fort Wayne Comet IHL
1999-2001 Laredo Bucks CHL
1999-2001 Louisville Panthers AHL
2002-2005 San Antonio Rampage AHL
2005-2010 Florida Everblades ECHL
Period team league
2005-2011 Rochester Americans AHL
2010-2015 Cincinnati Cyclones ECHL
2011-2015 San Antonio Rampage AHL
2011–2012 Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees CHL
2015-2016 Portland Pirates AHL
since 2016 Springfield Thunderbirds AHL

Achievements and honors

Sporting successes

Conference Championships season
Prince of Wales Trophy 1995/96
Division Championships season
Southeast Division 2011/12
Atlantic Division 2015/16

The Florida Panthers celebrated their only title win so far in the 1995/96 season , when they qualified for the playoffs for the first time in the history of the franchise . As fourth-placed team in the Eastern Conference , the best Eastern Conference team of the regular season, the Philadelphia Flyers , were defeated after the Boston Bruins . Against the Pittsburgh Penguins , the Panthers also prevailed and won the Prince of Wales Trophy . As a result, they moved into the final series for the Stanley Cup . Of the teams that were formed in the early 1990s, they were the first to do so. In the finals they were clearly defeated against the Colorado Avalanche .

NHL Awards and All-Star Team Nominations

Since the franchise was founded , five Florida Panthers players have won one of the individual NHL awards . In addition, one player made it into one of the All-Star teams four times and four others into the All-Rookie team .

Pawel Bure became the first player to win the Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy , which honors the best goalscorer of the season, following the 1999/2000 season . There have been many nominations. Already after the first season of the Panthers, John Vanbiesbrouck was nominated for the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Vezina Trophy , Brian Skrudland took 3rd place in the Frank J. Selke Trophy election . Ed Jovanovski was third in the 1996 Calder Memorial Trophy election , in that year coach Doug MacLean was nominated for the Jack Adams Award . Pawel Bure was also a candidate for the Hart Memorial Trophy in 2000. In 2002 Kristian Huselius was in the running for the Calder Memorial Trophy. Goalkeeper Roberto Luongo was a candidate for the 2004 Vezina Trophy and the Lester B. Pearson Award . After the 2011/12 season , defender Brian Campbell was finally awarded the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the fairest player of the season, making him the second player in the team's history to receive an individual trophy. A year later, Jonathan Huberdeau was the first time a Panthers player was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie of the season; Aaron Ekblad achieved the same in the 2014/15 season. Another season later, Jaromír Jágr received the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy . In addition, Captain Aleksander Barkov was the second player to receive the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in the 2018/19 season.

John Vanbiesbrouck managed to be elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team in the first season 1993/94 . Pawel Bure was elected to the NHL Second All-Star Team twice in a row . With Roberto Luongo , another goalkeeper made the leap there. Good draft selection was confirmed when Ed Jovanovski was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team in 1996 and Jay Bouwmeester seven years later .

NHL All-Star Game Nominations

To date, a total of 27 Florida Panthers players have been voted into the All-Star Game by fans because of their popularity or have been nominated by the coaches because of their performance.

In the first years of the Panthers' existence, it was common for each team to have at least one player in the All-Star Game. John Vanbiesbrouck represented Florida in the first three games. No other Panthers player has played more for Florida in the All-Star Game. More 1994 the Ottawa Panthers had signed Bob Kudelski , who had started the season there with excellent performances. Kudelski scored two goals in this game, making him the Panthers' first goalscorer in an All-Star Game. He was supposed to represent the Senators, but at the time of the game he had already been in the Panthers' squad for two weeks. After each of the next two games there was another player from Florida in the team. Doug MacLean coached the Eastern Conference team in these two games . The next two games took place without participation from Florida, although this was due to the injury-related cancellation of Wiktor Koslow in 1999 . In 2000 the Panthers were represented again and with Pawel Bure a player became MVP of the All-Star Games for the first time. In the following years Roberto Luongo and Jay Bouwmeester were active both in the YoungStars Game and two years later in the All-Star Game.

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime or shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals conceded

season GP W. L. T OTL Pts GF GA space Playoffs
1993/94 84 33 34 17th - 83 233 233 5th, Atlantic not qualified
1994/95 1 48 20th 22nd 6th - 46 115 127 5th, Atlantic not qualified
1995/96 82 41 31 10 - 92 254 234 3rd, Atlantic Conference quarter-finals win, 4-1 ( Boston )
conference semi-finals win, Conference-finals 4-2 ( Philadelphia )
conference-finals won, Conference-finals 4-3 ( Pittsburgh )
Stanley Cup final defeats, 4-0 ( Colorado )
1996/97 82 35 28 19th - 89 221 201 3rd, Atlantic Conference quarterfinals lost, 4-1 ( NY Rangers )
1997/98 82 24 43 15th - 63 203 256 6th, Atlantic not qualified
1998/99 82 30th 34 18th - 78 210 228 2nd, Southeast not qualified
1999/00 82 43 27 6th 6th 98 244 209 2nd, Southeast Conference quarterfinals lost, 4-0 ( New Jersey )
2000/01 82 22nd 38 13 9 66 200 246 3rd, Southeast not qualified
2001/02 82 22nd 44 10 6th 60 180 250 4th, Southeast not qualified
2002/03 82 24 36 13 9 70 176 237 4th, Southeast not qualified
2003/04 82 28 35 15th 4th 75 188 221 4th, Southeast not qualified
2004/05 2 - - - - - - - - - -
2005/06 82 37 34 - 11 85 240 257 4th, Southeast not qualified
2006/07 82 35 31 - 16 86 247 257 4th, Southeast not qualified
2007/08 82 38 35 - 9 85 216 226 3rd, Southeast not qualified
2008/09 82 41 30th - 11 93 234 231 3rd, Southeast not qualified
2009/10 82 32 37 - 13 77 208 244 5th, Southeast not qualified
2010/11 82 30th 40 - 12 72 195 229 5th, Southeast not qualified
2011/12 82 38 26th - 18th 94 203 227 1st, Southeast Conference quarter-finals lost, 3-4 ( New Jersey )
2012/13 3 48 15th 27 - 6th 36 112 171 5th, Southeast not qualified
2013/14 82 29 45 - 8th 66 196 268 7th, Atlantic not qualified
2014/15 82 38 29 - 15th 91 206 223 6th, Atlantic not qualified
2015/16 82 47 26th - 9 103 239 203 1st, Atlantic Conference quarterfinals lost, 2-4 ( NY Islanders )
2016/17 82 35 36 - 11 81 205 231 6th, Atlantic not qualified
2017/18 82 44 30th - 8th 96 245 243 4th, Atlantic not qualified
2018/19 82 36 32 - 14th 86 264 273 5th, Atlantic not qualified
2019/20 4 69 35 26th - 8th 78 228 224 4th, Atlantic Qualifying round loss, 3-1 ( NY Islanders )
total 1971 852 856 142 203 2049 5462 5949 6 playoff appearances
9 series: 3 wins, 6 losses
48 games: 19 wins, 29 losses
1 season shortened due to the NHL lockout in 1994/95
2 season because of the NHL lockout 2004/05 failed
3 season shortened due to the 2012/13 NHL lockout
4 season shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Franchise records

Selected player records of the franchise over the entire career as well as over individual seasons are listed below.

Career

Roberto Luongo holds various franchise records
Surname number
Most games Stephen Weiss 654 (in 11 seasons)
Most consecutive games Olli Jokinen
Brian Campbell 		376 (December 27, 2002 to April 5, 2008)
376 (October 8, 2011 to April 9, 2016)
Most goals Olli Jokinen 188
Most templates Jonathan Huberdeau * 289
Most of the points Jonathan Huberdeau * 437 (148 goals + 289 assists)
Most penalty minutes Paul Laus 1,702
Most shutouts Roberto Luongo 38

* active player of the Panthers; Status after the end of the 2019/20 season

season

Surname number season
Most goals Pavel Bure 59 2000/01
Most templates Jonathan Huberdeau 62 2018/19
Most of the points Aleksander Barkov 96 (35 goals + 61 assists) 2018/19
Most points as a rookie Jesse Bélanger 50 (17 goals + 33 assists) 1993/94
Most points as a defender Keith Yandle 62 (9 goals + 53 assists) 2018/19
Most penalty minutes Peter Worrell 354 2001/02
Most wins as a goalkeeper Roberto Luongo 35 2005/06
2015/16

Trainer

Surname season Regular season Playoffs
GC W. L. T OTL Pts Pts% GC W. L.
Roger Neilson 1993 / 94-1994 / 95 132 53 56 23 - 129 .489 - - -
Doug MacLean 1995 / 96–1997 / 98 * 187 83 71 33 - 199 .532 27 13 14th
Bryan Murray 1997/98 * 59 17th 31 11 - 45 .381 - - -
Terry Murray 1998 / 99–2000 / 01 * 200 79 79 31 11 200 .500 4th 0 4th
Duane Sutter 2000/01 * - 2001/02 * 72 22nd 35 8th 7th 59 .410 - - -
Mike Keenan 2001/02 * - 2003/04 * 153 45 73 23 12 125 .408 - - -
Rick Dudley 2003/04 * 40 13 15th 9 3 38 .475 - - -
John Torchetti 2003/04 * 27 10 12 4th 1 25th .463 - - -
Jacques Martin 2004 / 05–2007 / 08 246 110 100 - 36 256 .520 - - -
Peter DeBoer 2008 / 09–2010 / 11 246 103 107 - 36 242 .492 - - -
Kevin Dineen 2011 / 12–2013 / 14 * 146 56 62 - 28 140 .479 7th 3 4th
Peter Horachek 2013/14 * 66 26th 36 - 4th 56 .424
Gerard Gallant 2014 / 15–2016 / 17 * 186 96 65 - 25th 217 .583 6th 2 4th
Tom Rowe 2016/17 * 61 24 27 - 10 58 .475 - - -
Bob Boughner 2017 / 18–2018 / 19 164 80 62 - 22nd 182 .555 - - -
Joel Quenneville since 2019/20 69 35 26th - 8th 78 .565 4th 1 3

* Change during the current season

The first trainer in Florida was the experienced Roger Neilson . He hired the team very defensively and was quite successful. In his work one can certainly see the cornerstone for later successes. General Manager Bryan Murray brought in Doug MacLean, a man who was his assistant coach for a long time. MacLean led the Panthers into the final series and is still the most successful coach in Florida with a rate of 53.2% won games. In 1997 he was replaced by General Manager Bryan Murray. The following year, Terry Murray was a namesake behind the gang. He played exactly 200 games with the Panthers. His successor Duane Sutter replaced him during one season and could not finish the following one. With Mike Keenan , it was hoped to bring success back to Florida. After two short coaching periods, Jacques Martin was again a long-term coach for the Panthers. He is the coach with the most games so far and was the first to stand behind the gang in over 100 wins. However, he did not succeed in leading the Panthers into the playoffs. For the 2008/09 season, Peter DeBoer took on the task of bringing the Panthers back to the finals after 2000. After a solid first season, in which the Panthers narrowly missed the playoffs, two seasons followed in which the team clearly missed the finals. Shortly after the end of the season in April 2011, DeBoer was fired. In early June 2011, Kevin Dineen was hired as his successor, who had previously coached the Portland Pirates from the AHL for six years .

After a few match days of the 2013/14 season, Dineen was followed by Peter Horachek , who looked after the team on an interim basis until the end of the season. Gerard Gallant then took over with the Panthers, who led the team to the top of the Atlantic Division in 2015/16. Gallant was fired in November 2016 and was temporarily succeeded by General Manager Tom Rowe , who was only hired in May 2016 . Rowe resigned from both positions at the end of the season. In June 2017, Bob Boughner was introduced as the new head coach, who looked after the team for two years and missed the playoffs. Just one day after Boughner's release, Joel Quenneville was installed as his successor.

General manager

Surname season
Bobby Clarke 1993/94
Bryan Murray 1994 / 95–2000 / 01 *
Bill Torrey 2000/01 * - 2001/02 *
Chuck Fletcher ** 2001/02 *
Rick Dudley 2002/03–2003/04
Mike Keenan 2004 / 05–2006 / 07 *
Jacques Martin 2006/07 * –2008/09
Randy Sexton 2009/10
Dale Tallon 2010 / 11–2015 / 16
Tom Rowe 2016/17
Dale Tallon 2017 / 18–2019 / 20

* Change during the current season
** Interim General Manager

Bobby Clarke was the first general manager of the Panthers in the 1993/94 season and then went to the Philadelphia Flyers , where he continued to work as general manager. Bryan Murray was his successor and led the team in the 1995/96 season to the finals of the Stanley Cup , where the Panthers were defeated in four games by the Colorado Avalanche . Murray was later also a trainer in Florida, but he was unsuccessful and again filled the task of general manager. Since after moving into the Stanley Cup Finals a disenchantment followed and the playoffs were missed twice in a row, he was dismissed during the 2000/01 season . Bill Torrey was employed as GM of the Panthers for less than a year, and in 2001 he retired and retired. Chuck Fletcher followed him on an interim basis . The son of functionary Cliff Fletcher was released from his duties a year later after the employment of Rick Dudley .

Rick Dudley didn't stay with the Panthers for long either, as he was fired after the 2003-04 season . Before that, he was also employed as a short-term trainer, but the unsatisfactory sporting results were the decisive factor in his resignation. Mike Keenan coached the Panthers from 2001 to 2004 and has now been hired as General Manager. Since the team was unsuccessful, Keenan was fired two years later. Jacques Martin was able to try his hand at seventh General Manager of the Panthers from 2006, but he too had no success and the team had failed again to reach the playoffs. After his release, his former assistant Randy Sexton was appointed General Manager and released a year later in May 2010. As a result, Dale Tallon was hired as general manager in Florida until he was named President of Hockey Operations in May 2016 , succeeding Tom Rowe . Rowe resigned after just one season as general manager and interim head coach, so that Tallon took over the position of general manager again. After ten, both parties decided not to extend his expiring contract after the 2019/20 season.

player

Squad for the 2019/20 season

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

No. Nat. player Item Date of birth in org. since place of birth
72 RussiaRussia Sergei Bobrovsky G 20th September 1988 2019 Novokuznetsk , Russian SFSR
60 CanadaCanada Chris Driedger G May 18, 1994 2019 Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
2 CanadaCanada Josh Brown D. January 21, 1994 2015 London , Ontario , Canada
5 CanadaCanada Aaron Ekblad -  A D. 0February 7, 1996 2014 Belle River , Ontario , Canada
19th CanadaCanada Mike Matheson D. February 27, 1994 2015 Pointe-Claire , Quebec , Canada
13 CanadaCanada Mark Pysyk D. January 11, 1992 2016 Sherwood Park , Alberta , Canada
6th SwedenSweden Anton Strålman D. 0August 1, 1986 2019 Tibro , Sweden
52 CanadaCanada MacKenzie Weegar D. 0January 2, 1994 2014 Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
3 United StatesUnited States Keith Yandle -  A D. 0September 9, 1986 2016 Boston , Massachusetts , USA
55 United StatesUnited States Noel Acciari C. 01st December 1991 2019 Johnston , Rhode Island , USA
16 Flag of Finland and Russia.svg Aleksander Barkov -  C. C. 0September 2, 1995 2013 Tampere , Finland
9 United StatesUnited States Brian Boyle C. 18th December 1984 2019 Hingham , Massachusetts , USA
10 CanadaCanada Brett Connolly RW 0May 2, 1992 2019 Campbell River , British Columbia , Canada
63 RussiaRussia Yevgeny Dadonov RW March 12, 1989 2017 Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
56 FinlandFinland Erik Haula C. March 23, 1991 2020 Pori , Finland
68 CanadaCanada Mike Hoffman LW November 24, 1989 2018 Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
11 CanadaCanada Jonathan Huberdeau -  A. LW 04th June 1993 2013 Saint-Jérôme , Quebec , Canada
73 CanadaCanada Dryden Hunt LW November 24, 1995 2016 Cranbrook , British Columbia , Canada
7th CanadaCanada Colton Sceviour C. April 20, 1989 2016 Red Deer , Alberta , Canada
14th United StatesUnited States Dominic Toninato C. 0March 9, 1994 2017 Duluth , Minnesota , USA
77 United StatesUnited States Frank Vatrano C. March 14, 1994 2018 East Longmeadow , Massachusetts , USA
71 SwedenSweden Lucas Wallmark C. 05th September 1995 2020 Umeå , Sweden

Team captains

year Surname
1993-1997 Brian Skrudland
1997-2001 Scott Mellanby
2001-2002 Pawel Bure
Paul Laus
2002-2003 no captain
2003-2008 Olli Jokinen
2008-2009 no captain
2009-2011 Bryan McCabe
2011–2012 no captain
2012-2014 Ed Jovanovski
2014-2016 Willie Mitchell
2016-2018 Derek MacKenzie
since 2018 Aleksander Barkov

In the history of the Florida Panthers, there have been ten different players who have held the position of team captain.

At the age of 30 , Brian Skrudland , who was signed up from Calgary , was one of the experienced players in the new team and was therefore named team captain. Inspired by this, he was able to convince with good performances, but it was primarily his exemplary commitment that was appreciated by those in charge. With Scott Mellanby , Skrudland's move was followed by a player who has been on the team since the start of the game. He had developed into a crowd favorite and was an integrating figure in the squad. In two of the first three years he was also the team's best scorer. When Mellanby left Florida, they had two co-captains for the rest of the season. You couldn't have found more different types with the goal- scoring superstar Pawel Bure and Raubein Paul Laus . Laus was also a man from the very beginning in Florida. After no player wore the “C” on his jersey in the following year, the Finn Olli Jokinen took over the office for the 2002/03 season . He held this position until he moved to the Phoenix Coyotes in 2008. After the post remained vacant for a year, Bryan McCabe was appointed the new captain in September 2009. He held the office for almost a year and a half before McCabe was handed over to a transfer deal shortly before the trade deadline in February 2011.

Subsequently, the post of captain for the 2011/12 season remains vacant. It was not until the summer of 2012 that defender Ed Jovanovski took over the post, and Willie Mitchell for two years from 2014 . For the 2016/17 season , Derek MacKenzie was named the ninth team captain in franchise history, before Aleksander Barkov took over in September 2018.

Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame

Igor Larionov was Florida's first player in the Hockey Hall of Fame

To date, five Florida Panthers players and two officials have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

Surname Recording date position
Ed Belfour November 14, 2011 player
Pavel Bure November 12, 2012 player
Dino Ciccarelli November 8, 2010 player
Igor Larionov November 10, 2008 player
Roger Neilson November 4, 2002 Trainer
Joe Nieuwendyk November 14, 2011 player
Bill Torrey 1995 General Manager
President

Blocked jersey numbers

In addition to the famous jersey number 99 of the Canadian Wayne Gretzky , which has been banned throughout the league since February 6, 2000 and has not been awarded to a player since then, the Panthers banned the number 93 on October 23, 2010 in honor of their former president Bill Torrey . The number 93 represents the year (1993) the franchise was inducted into the National Hockey League. The number 37 followed on January 19, 2018, with which the Panthers honored their first owner Wayne Huizenga and his year of birth (1937). On March 7, 2020, the Panthers blocked Roberto Luongo's number 1 and thus the first number of a former Panthers player.

No. Surname Blocking date
1 Roberto Luongo March 7, 2020
37 Wayne Huizenga 19th January 2018
93 Bill Torrey October 23, 2010
99 Wayne Gretzky February 6, 2000 (league-wide)

Top 10 voting rights in the NHL Entry Draft

Surname year Draft position
Rob Niedermayer 1993 5.
Ed Jovanovski 1994 1.
Radek Dvořák 1995 10.
Stephen Weiss 2001 4th
Jay Bouwmeester 2002 3.
Petr Tatíček 9.
Nathan Horton 2003 3.
Rostislav Olesz 2004 7th
Michael Frolík 2006 10.
Keaton Ellerby 2007 10.
Erik Gudbranson 2010 3.
Jonathan Huberdeau 2011 3.
Aleksander Barkov 2013 2.
Aaron Ekblad 2014 1.
Owen Tippett 2017 10.

Franchise top point collector

The ten best point collectors in the history of the franchise by the end of the 2019/20 regular season and the 2020 playoffs .

Abbreviations: Pos = position, GP = games, G = goals, A = assists, Pts = points, P / G = points per game

Regular season

Surname Item season GP G A. Pts P / G
Jonathan Huberdeau LW since 2012/13 536 148 289 437 0.82
Olli Jokinen C. 2000/01/2007/08 567 188 231 419 0.74
Aleksander Barkov C. since 2013/14 479 155 252 407 0.85
Stephen Weiss C. 2001 / 02–2012 / 13 654 145 249 394 0.60
Scott Mellanby RW 1993 / 94-2000 / 01 552 157 197 354 0.64
Nathan Horton C. 2003 / 04–2009 / 10 422 142 153 295 0.70
Viktor Kozlov C. 1997 / 98-2003 / 04 414 101 190 291 0.70
Róbert Švehla D. 1994 / 95-2001 / 02 573 61 229 290 0.51
Vincent Trocheck C. 2013 / 14–2019 / 20 420 111 171 282 0.67
Radek Dvořák RW 1995 / 96-1998 / 99 613 113 155 268 0.44
2007 / 08–2010 / 11

Playoffs

Surname Item GP G A. Pts P / G
Ray Sheppard RW 26th 10 8th 18th 0.69
Dave Lowry LW 27 10 7th 17th 0.63
Stu Barnes C. 22nd 6th 10 16 0.73
Rob Niedermayer C. 31 8th 4th 12 0.39
Scott Mellanby RW 31 3 9 12 0.39
Róbert Švehla D. 31 1 11 12 0.39
Bill Lindsay W. 25th 5 6th 11 0.44
Tom Fitzgerald RW 27 4th 5 9 0.33
Paul Laus D. 30th 2 7th 9 0.30
Ed Jovanovski D. 27 1 8th 9 0.47

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ darsys.com/panth, The "Rat" Story ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.darsys.com
  2. ↑ McDonell, Chris. Hockey's Greatest Stars: Legends and Young Lions , Firefly Books, 2005, page 135, ISBN 1-55407-038-4 .
  3. ↑ slam.canoe.ca, Dealing for Luongo would have been costly
  4. ↑ andrewsstarpage.com, NHL Arena Naming Rights ( Memento of October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ miami.cbslocal.com: The Bank Atlantic Center becomes the BB&T Center Article from September 10, 2012 (English)
  6. ↑ azhockey.com, list of the Florida Panthers farm teams ( memento of the original from June 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.azhockey.com
  7. ↑ panthers.nhl.com, Honoring A Legend
  8. ↑ Matthew DeFranks: Panthers retire No. 37 in honor of former owner H. Wayne Huizenga. sun-sentinel.com, January 19, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018 .