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PUCK FROM FIRST HOME GAME, 1993
Date: October 12, 1993
To commemorate the first-ever Panthers home game on October 12, 1993, the team gave 25,000 fans hockey pucks featuring a graphic reproduction of the Opening Night ticket. The Panthers would lose to the Pittsburgh Penguins, 2-1, but fans nearly brought the roof down when Scott Mellanby scored the first-ever Panthers goal at home, with an assist from Evgeny Davydov and Rob Niedermayer. After the game when asked about the franchise’s new fans, Mellanby remarked: “I thought the fans were well aware of the game. Obviously it’s going to be a learning process for a lot of people.”
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