Brian Campbell’s fourth-career trip to All-Star Weekend included a chance to show off a special skill: skating backward really fast. Campbell clocked in at 14.826 seconds in the first round of the 2012 Fastest Skater competition, just barely losing to fellow defenseman Kris Letang and his time of 14.501 seconds.

The NHL All-Star Game is known for being a high-scoring affair where players prioritize fun over defense and physicality. Still, at the 2012 game Panthers defenseman Brian Campbell impressed on the ice, leading his team in TOI with 21:41, contributing an assist and earning a plus-7 in 14 shifts. Even when he’s not playing for […]

Brian Campbell has lots of skills, including being a gentlemen. At the 2012 NHL All-Star Game, the defenseman competed in the Fastest Skating competition. He didn’t win the race, but Campbell finished the season with a more impressive honor: becoming the first Cat ever to win the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. The sportsmanlike Campbell spent […]

Building the teams for the 2012 NHL All-Star Game was a multi-step process. First, fans decided which NHL stars competed in the game. From there, the players voted for two team captains. The captains then built their rosters with a draft of the remaining players. The early rounds of the fantasy draft were dominated by […]

The Panthers were shut out by the Devils 2-0 through the 2nd period of their must-win Game 7 of the 2012 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. But then, at 5:02 in the 3rd period, Brian Campbell and Mikael Samuelsson got the puck to Stephen Weiss who scored on a power play. The team was halfway to tying […]

The Panthers sealed their Game 2 win of the 2016 Eastern Conference First Round with Dmitry Kulikov’s empty-net goal. Kulikov, Brian Campbell and Erik Gudbranson were the only Panthers on the 2016 team who were also part of the last Cats trip to the playoffs in 2012. Though Kulikov played in all seven games of […]

Reilly Smith had a fantastic first season with the Panthers. The 24-year-old was one of only two players on the team who played in all 82 regular-season games (the other one was Brian Campbell). Plus, he was tied with Vincent Trocheck for 3rd on the team in goals scored with 25. Smith showed off his […]

When Panthers GM Dale Tallon arrived for Game 3 of the 2016 Eastern Conference First Round, he must have felt proud. The team featured a great mix of young stars whom Tallon had drafted, like Jonathan Huberdeau and Aleksander Barkov, trade acquisitions like Roberto Luongo and Jaromir Jagr, plus veteran leaders like Brian Campbell whom […]

The Panthers were down 3-0 just 6:16 into Game 3 of the 2012 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. Slowly but surely, though, the Cats clawed back until Brian Campbell’s 2nd-period power-play goal secured a 4-3 Panther lead that stuck for the rest of the night.

Aleksander Barkov’s second-ever playoff goal was a big one. Assisted by Alexander Petrovic and Jaromir Jagr, the Finnish center got a shot through at 1:59 in the 3rd period of Game 5 of the 2016 Eastern Conference First Round. The shot tied the game 1-1. Though the Panthers would ultimately lose in 2OT, Barkov gave […]