The 2025-26 season was a real Murphy’s Law experience for the Florida Panthers and their fans. After winning back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2024 and 2025, establishing themselves as the dominant franchise in the league in the process, everything that could have gone wrong last year did go wrong.
Brad Marchand has always been good at stirring the pot, so this probably shouldn’t come as a surprise. Still, his latest jab made me do a double take. After the Senators named Tim Stützle, Thomas Chabot, and Jake Sanderson as candidates to replace Brady Tkachuk as captain, Marchand simply replied, “Hahahah… Stützle… hahaha.” That’s it.
The Orlando Solar Bears have added a familiar name to the South Division, signing veteran goaltender Ryan Bednard for the 2026-27 season. Bednard returns to the ECHL after spending the last two seasons overseas, most recently with Düsseldorfer EG in Germany’s DEL2.
The rivalry between the Panthers and Senators leveled up several notches with the trade sending Brady Tkachuk from Ottawa to Florida this offseason, and on Tuesday, Brad Marchand decided to stir the pot even further.
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. — Muhammad Ali With 15 nationally televised games for the upcoming season, including 11 on the road, the Florida Panthers have quickly recaptured the attention of NHL followers around the country.
The Florida Panthers, while being one of the younger franchises by NHL standards, have still left their mark on the game of hockey with a plethora of players on their way to the Hall of Fame to wear the club’s sweater.
The Florida Panthers under Head Coach Paul Maurice and General Manager Bill Zito have built perhaps the best top six forward group in the National Hockey League.
New Florida Panthers forward Brady Tkachuk has built a reputation as one of the NHL’s biggest agitators, and that role has made him a frequent target of opposing crowds throughout his career.
If Brady Tkachuk hadn’t given fans enough reasons to rag on him, he offered up another one during his latest podcast. Speaking with his brother Matthew about which Canadian cities booed him the most, Brady started listing them and included Seattle.
Early in the Florida Panthers offseason, they made the huge splash by acquiring Brady Tkachuk from the Ottawa Senators. They further added some depth, physicality, and veteran goaltending while parting ways with their longtime starter, Sergei Bobrovsky.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Even after years of speculation that he’d one day leave Ottawa, Brady Tkachuk getting traded to the Florida Panthers came as a shock to the hockey world.
Darryl Sutter is part of one of the NHL’s most legendary coaching and playing families. Across his long career behind the bench, he coached in two separate stints for the Calgary Flames — 2002–06 and 2021–23 — and captured the Jack Adams Award in the 2021–22 season.
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While Jaromir Jagr’s stint with the Panthers won’t be top of most people’s radars across his illustrious career (what would come to mind is obviously his run with the Pittsburgh Penguins and a handful of other teams).
Like many players on the 2025-26 Florida Panthers roster, Brad Marchand spent a good deal of the season sidelined, missing 30 games due to a lower-body injury.
The Florida Panthers missed the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs after a brutal season. Florida dealt with significant injuries even before the puck dropped on the regular season.
Florida Panthers forward Brad Marchand is recovering from offseason surgery and could miss the start of the 2026-27 season, Florida Hockey Now reported Saturday.
The Panthers did not need to become a completely different team. They needed their stars back, more reliable goaltending and enough depth to survive another bruising season.
The 2020s Florida Panthers reached a whole new stratosphere of playoff success, with three consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup Finals, two of which resulted in the hoisting of the trophy.
The Florida Panthers’ injury-riddled 2026 season left what seemed like a power vacuum in the NHL’s Eastern Conference. Entering the 2026 season, they were the reigning back-to-back Stanley Cup champions and had just three-peated as Eastern Conference champions.
The last arbitration case of the offseason has been settled. According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the Florida Panthers have signed netminder Akira Schmid to a two-year, $4MM ($2MM AAV) contract.
Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov talked about the treatment of women this week while speaking in Finland, his home. He was adamant that disrespectful behaviour toward women has no place anywhere, and that includes their locker room.
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There are a lot of layers to this trade and what it means for both sides.
The Panthers could be positioning themselves for a massive blockbuster move in the coming days.
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