ukcanuck wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:52 pm
Strangelove wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:43 pm
I'm talking about going for it all when you're a top team in the league.
Why would you do anything other?
Absolutely agree, I just got surprised by the panthers being a top team. Kind of lost track of the yank teams since the Canucks aren’t playing any of them this year. Last I checked the panthers were chopped liver.
Yeah they got the two leading the way in Huberdeau and Barkov($5.9M) for one more season then he is gonna get a MAX type deal.
Signed Verhaeghe ($1Mx2) after he won with Tampa last year, a former Leaf draftee and he is now having a career year with 17 goals playing with Barkov.
Signed Wennberg
(UFA July 1, 2021, be a perfect #3C here just sayin') last offseason as well, a key two-way player that is missing from CBJ now, but his underrated play is now benefiting the Panthers on their 2nd line with fellow vets Hornqvist and Hubs.
Their goaltenders Bobrovsky is back in form (even without Clark!
) plus Chris Driedger, all thanks to the Panthers new Goaltender Excellence Department they've developed.
Florida Panthers General Manager Bill Zito announced today that the club has expanded its goaltending staff with the establishment of its innovative Goaltending Excellence Department and has hired renowned goaltending expert and coach Francois Allaire as a Goaltending Consultant.
Allaire will assist Special Advisor to the General Manager Roberto Luongo to oversee the organization's Goaltending Excellence Department.
Joining Allaire and Luongo, the staff of the Goaltending Excellence Department includes Panthers goaltending coach Robb Tallas and Leo Luongo, the goaltending coach of Florida's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers.
The Panthers first-of-its-kind department will focus on a comprehensive, integrated experience and program for all goaltenders in the Panthers system and will coordinate and oversee coaching, development and scouting. Upon joining the organization, a Panthers goaltender will experience consistent communication, guidance and unified instruction from the goaltending excellence staff.
And of course their coaching change getting former Chicago's coaching wizard in Joel Quenneville, while adding assistant coaches in two-time Stanley Cup Champion Mike Kitchen, NHL veteran Andrew Brunette and former Panthers captain Derek MacKenzie.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.