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 […]

On October 9, 2016, Derek MacKenzie became the 9th Panthers captain in history. The center concluded an impressive 16-year NHL career with five seasons in South Florida. He spent two of those seasons as captain before passing the mantel to Aleksander Barkov in 2018.

General Manager Dave Tallon and then-head coach Bob Boughner were excited to name Aleksander Barkov the team’s new captain. Boughner called Barkov “the complete package” while his GM praised the 23 year old as “our best player on and off the ice.”

Jonathan Huberdeau was riding high on a seven-game points streak ahead of a meeting with the Buffalo Sabres. He extended his streak and netted this puck for his 97th point of the season, a new franchise single-season record. “He’s a tremendous player, and he deserves it the way he’s been playing,” said Aleksander Barkov, who […]

The 2018 All-Star Game was Aleksander Barkov’s first, and the star quickly demonstrated it was only a promise of things to come. He would be named Panthers captain less than a year later and earn the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy following the 2018-2019 season.

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 […]

Aleksander Barkov’s first public event after being named team captain showed why he’s a leader on and off the ice. The center helped teach the next generation of hockey players through the Florida Panthers Learn to Play program.

The Panthers had a season to remember in 2021-2022. Several players set franchise records, highlighted by Jonathan Huberdeau, Aleksander Barkov and Sergei Bobrovsky. As a team, the Cats reached the 300-goal mark, took home the franchise’s first Presidents’ Trophy for best regular-season record, and won a playoffs series for the first time since 1996. The […]

Randy Moller took a page out of Howard Stern’s book in this memorable playcall for a Barkov goal that put the Cats up 2-0 on their way to a 4-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche.

Ekblad to Jagr to Barkov to the net with a shot so pretty Randy Moller thought it was worthy of a freezeframe. The Panthers had lots of freezeframe-worthy moments on a night when they played the spoiler for the Boston Bruins, knocking them out of playoff contention with a 4-2 victory.