It's Game 5 in the AHL Series between the Florida Panthers affiliate the Portland Pirates and the Washington Capitals Affiliate the Hershey Bears. In the AHL Game 5 is an equivalent of an NHL Game 7. The Pirates are coming off a rough 2-0 loss in which they were shutout by the Hershey Bears. Now … Continue reading Prospects Update 1: May 1, 2016: Do or Die for the Portland Pirates

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It's been an amazing week for Panthers 20 year old top line center Aleksander Barkov or as he likes to be called Sasha Barkov. Despite his team being eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Sunday he had two more big things happen. Both of them were good. On Tuesday, he was named a candidate … Continue reading Barkov for NHL 17 Cover and Lady Byng

Here is my prediction for next year's lines: Huberdeau-Barkov-Jagr Jokinen-Trocheck-Smith Rotation of Hunt/Rau/Purcell/Hawyrulk at wing with Bjugstad at Center Rotation of Wilson/Crouse/Thornton at wing with MacKenzie at Center Ekblad-Matheson Campbell-Petrovic/Kampfer Kulikov-Gudbranson Luongo Montoya

The NHL referees are biased aganist the Florida Panthers.  I'm not saying that just because I'm a panther fan but I have actual evidence. Take Justin Abdelkader's high hit on Barkov or Matt Hendricks Boarding Aaron Ekblad (which was later suspended) or Gallant getting tossed after two of his players were blatantly injured aganist Nashville … Continue reading The NHL referees are Biased

I'm just going to be plain with you. The logo released by uniwatch is mediocre at best. In my opinion I think they are just doing it to sell merchandise. Anyway it looks like the Interstate Highways Signs with a Panther in it. Sure it looks realistic but I prefer the cartoony version of it. … Continue reading My thoughts on the latest mockup of the new logo

Goodbye 2015-16 Panthers season. It was an incredible one. From setting franchise records in Wins (47); Points (103) and Winning Streak (12) it was a great year. Say the Islanders played a perfect series and eliminated us from the playoffs. This was my favorite year as a Panther fan. From the 7-1 blowout win against … Continue reading Season Recap: 2015-16

The Florida Panthers have lost to the New York Islanders in 6 games in Round 1 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Here is why they lost: The Islanders played a perfect series. They took advantage of every single little mistake we made and put it in the back of the net. They were also … Continue reading Why we lost the series