The NHL and NHLPA have teamed up since 1998 to promote awareness of and raise money for cancer research in an initiative called Hockey Fights Cancer. Sam Bennett and the Florida Panthers participate every season, and when Sam had a day with the Stanley Cup, he brought it to pediatric cancer patients near his Ontario […]

Few players score overtime goals like Carter “Swaggy” Verhaeghe. His walk-off in Game 3 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final was Verhaeghe’s fourth career playoff overtime goal, the most in Panthers history. He became the 22nd player in NHL history to have four playoff OT goals, tying one-time Cats Jaromir Jagr and Esa Tikkanen.

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. […]

Patience is an underappreciated virtue in a goal scorer, especially when nearly 20,000 fans are yelling “SHOOT!” When Matthew Tkachuk scored his game-winning goal with under five seconds in regulation in Game 4 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Final, he waited an extra second and allowed traffic to clear in front of the net while […]

Brad Marchand collected his second overtime game-winner during the playoffs as his goal in double overtime lifted the Panthers to a 5-4 win in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. Marchand also scored a key shorthanded goal earlier in the game and tallied six goals in the Final. He, Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett […]

After the Florida Panthers won the 2024 Stanley Cup, Matthew Tkachuk told several Edmonton Oilers in the handshake line, “We’ll see you in the Finals next year.” It wasn’t bragging, either, Tkachuk noted. “I think we’re the two best teams in the League. And if everything would go right, it would probably be us two […]