The Panthers had a record-breaking season as an NHL expansion team, which this photo-collage poster celebrated. From the Expansion Draft to their first-ever game, a 4-4 tie with the Chicago Blackhawks ...

When the Panthers chose their name, the team pledged to raise awareness about Florida’s endangered state animal. Team founder and then-owner H. Wayne Huizenga did just that in 1993 when he announced a ...

Bill Lindsay came to the Panthers in the expansion draft and spent seven seasons with the team. During the memorable 1995-1996 season Lindsay earned a career-high 34 points and he went on to play a ke ...

Bill Torrey became a legend when he turned the struggling New York Islanders into a dynasty in the 1970s and 1980s. After a 21-year career with the Islanders, Torrey answered Panthers owner H. Wayne H ...

Panthers owner H. Wayne Huizenga had a great deal of experience in business and sports management, but did not have much specific experience with hockey. In early 1993, just months before the franchis ...

No hockey stick will survive these Panthers. The “broken stick” logo, which may have ultimately derived from one of these designs, became a much-beloved logo for the Panthers in their inaugural season ...

Rawr! When the Panthers unveiled their uniforms, players were sporting these clawed gloves. The gloves never made it onto the ice, though, so the claws live on only in Panthers legend.

Panthers history was enshrined in a commemorative gold puck celebrating the team’s first NHL game, a 4-4 tie with the Chicago Blackhawks. The team posted a 33-34-17 record in the inaugural season. ...

Dave Lowry came to the Panthers in the expansion draft and made an immediate impact with 37 points that first year. He would spend five seasons with the Panthers, scoring 50 goals, some of them with t ...

NHL teams are allowed to name up to three alternate captains, whose jerseys are marked with an “A” near the shoulder. Dave Lowry was one such alternate captain for the Panthers from 1993-1994 and agai ...