Sam Bennett scored what proved to be the game-winning goal late in the second period as the Panthers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning and won their 2025 Eastern Conference First Round series. Eetu Luostarinen picked up his third assist of the game on the goal — each of them on go-ahead markers — and, along […]

Sam Bennett, Matthew Tkachuk and Carter Verhaeghe each scored two goals as the Panthers rolled over their rivals the Tampa Bay Lightning, 9-2. With the victory the Panthers won 11 straight road games for the first time in team history and just one off the NHL record at the time. It was also the first […]

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.

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 […]

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.”

Tampere, Finland native Aleksander Barkov scored in front of his hometown fans as the Panthers defeated the Dallas Stars, 6-4, in the NHL Global Series. Barkov was the fourth player in NHL history to have a four-point game outside of North America. “For me to be able to come home to Finland and play here, […]

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 […]