With just five seconds remaining in Game 4 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Final, Matthew Tkachuk scored a brilliant power-play goal to give the Panthers a 4-3 win — and complete a sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes to advance to the Stanley Cup Final. It was Tkachuk’s second goal of the night, fourth goal of […]

Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov took a face-off against Toronto Maple Leafs captain John Tavares in Game 3 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Second Round at FLA Live Arena (now Amerant Bank Arena). After two wins in Toronto, the Cats did not let up when the series moved to Sunrise. Sam Reinhart scored at 3:02 in […]

The Florida Panthers capped off their 30th anniversary season in exciting fashion: winning the first Stanley Cup championship in franchise history! The road through the playoffs wasn’t always easy, but the Cats never took their eyes off the prize. Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk led the team in postseason scoring. Carter Verhaeghe, Sam Reinhart and […]

Imagine you were Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Adin Hill. Do you think you could have stopped Matthew Tkachuk’s game-tying goal late in the third period of Game 3 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final? We don’t either. “We are that type of team where we know what the end goal [is] for us,” Tkachuk said. […]

With an extra attacker on the ice, Matthew Tkachuk scored the tying goal with less than three minutes remaining in the third period in Game 3 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final. The goal was the latest act of heroism from Tkachuk, who had scored four game-winning goals in the first three rounds of the […]

Sam Reinhart put on a memorable performance in Game 3 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final. With about a minute left to play in the first period, Reinhart opened the scoring with a great feed from Aleksander Barkov. He later assisted on Barkov’s game-winning goal to give the Panthers a 3-0 series lead. The Cats […]

Sam Reinhart got ready for a face-off in Game 3 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Final. In the second period, the Panthers cashed in just eight seconds into a power play when Reinhart took a pass from Matthew Tkachuk and scored the only goal of the game. His tally gave the Cats a 1-0 victory […]

If there was one guy the Panthers wanted on the ice during the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, it was Sam Reinhart. During the regular season he led the team with 94 points, which included 57 goals (and nearly broke a franchise record). Reinhart continued his goal-scoring ways in the playoffs with 10 lamp-lighters. His most […]

In his 699th career NHL game — regular season and playoffs — Sam Bennett was finally able to lift the Stanley Cup. “He’s a quiet man, but his style of game and his personality is something we’re trying to emulate — Everybody should play a little bit more like Sam Bennett,” coach Paul Maurice said. […]

Winning the Stanley Cup in South Florida was a full-circle moment for Dmitry Kulikov. Picked 14th overall in the 2009 NHL Draft, the blueliner spent his first seven seasons with the Cats. He then journey-manned with seven teams over six seasons before returning to South Florida as a free agent ahead of the 2023-2024 campaign. […]