Do you remember these Panther faces? Pavel Bure and Ray Whitney led the 1999-2000 Panthers in points with 94 and 71, respectively. It was also Bure who led the team in the playoffs, earning four point ...

By the 1999-2000 season, the NHL had truly become an international game. This issue of Growl highlights the national origins of the Panthers players that year.

Stephen Weiss was one of three Panthers rookies who represented their team in the 2003 YoungStars Game at the Office Depot Center (now Amerant Bank Arena). Weiss, Niklas Hagman and Jay Bouwmeester rep ...

The Florida Panthers Foundation used to host an annual “Shirts Off Our Backs” auction. Fans bid on game-worn jerseys during the first two periods of play and at the end of the game, winners stepped on ...

The Panthers opened the 2001-2002 with a 3-0 loss to the New York Islanders. Right winger Pavel Bure’s sparkling play was the highlight of the season.

Todd Bertuzzi’s time as a Panther was brief. Yet his 7 points in as many games must have made a strong impression on the fan who painted this rat with his no. 44.

Here’s a side-view of Tomas Vokoun’s first mask with the Panthers. The leaping panther design on the side of his head would become a standard look for the goalie throughout his entire tenure with the ...

Panthers goaltender Trevor Kidd used this stick sometime between 1999 and 2002 until the entire blade broke off! Brian’s is a specialty maker of goaltender equipment, but even premium sticks can’t hol ...

When slapshots come at the goalie at 100 mph, not to mention an extremely large winger or two, he has to use all his tools to stop the momentum. Trevor Kidd’s wooden goalie stick absorbed quite a blow ...

Here’s a rare look at Trevor Kidd in 2001 without his trademark checkerboard pads. The goalie still showed off his style with colors that perfectly matched across his pads, mask, gloves and stick. The ...