In their first regular-season game at the National Car Rental Center (now Amerant Bank Arena), the Panthers defeated their cross-state rivals, the Tampa Bay Lightning, by a score of 4-1. Viktor Kozlov ...

Did the Panthers know that Opening Night 1995 would go down in team history? Players and owner H. Wayne Huizenga signed a poster commemorating the game, where Scott Mellanby’s Rat Trick was the highli ...

Opening Night in 1999 saw the Panthers defeat the Washington Capitals 4-3. The Panthers would finish the year in second place in the Southeast Division, earning another trip to the playoffs.

The Panthers played their first home game on October 12, 1993 in the Miami Arena. The result was a 2-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins — Panthers fans would have to wait until the next game to see the ...

The first season of the new millennium was heralded with this futuristic ticket to the Opening Night game against the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks won 4-3.

Watch out — those kitties bite! A real-life Florida panther joined Bill Torrey, H. Wayne Huizenga and others on the ice to officially welcome fans to the beginning of Panthers hockey. When Huizenga an ...

This Panther is gonna take a bite out of hockey! Opening Night tickets featured special artwork that was reproduced on several commemorative items, including pucks and programs. Though this ticket cos ...

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 th ...

The Panthers planned to open the 1994-1995 season on October 6, 1994, against the Philadelphia Flyers, but the lockout that year delayed the start of play until January 1995.

The reigning conference champions raised the banner before opening the 1996-1997 season with a 1-1 tie against the New York Rangers. As they had the year before, the Panthers would end their season in ...