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Florida Panthers quickie-poll: What's the priority for Cats going forward

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 So...now what?

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Current Florida Lineup (and organizational "possibles"), as of 07/10/09:

 

CENTER

RIGHT WING

LEFT WING

DEFENSE

GOAL

Some prominent names still on the market (as of 07/08/09).

 

Poll
Now that the initial free agency rush has subsided, which position should the Cats address? (Suggestions in the comments section)
Center
27 votes
Right Wing
13 votes
Left Wing
1 votes
Defense...Bouw's gone: panic!
4 votes
Goal...well, c'mon - they're set in goal - right???
3 votes
Management...there was the little issue of a GM search
10 votes

58 votes | Poll has closed

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You forgot about Alexander Salak as a goalie

by keithwozniak on Jul 10, 2009 10:41 PM EDT reply actions  

Good call, but he didn’t even show up on the organizational depth chart, so I’m not giving him a whole lot of wiggle room to make the big club. No disrespect to him, but you’ll notice Jacob Markstrom isn’t there either.

For those interested…and Keith is absolutely right about Salak as a Panthers “prospect”…here’s the original press release.

by Donny Rivette on Jul 10, 2009 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

And to clarify, Markstrom will spend the next season in Europe…no matter what. Probably not an accurate comparison.

An interesting sidenote on Salak…he was signed to a contract with Florida by former GM Jacques Martin one day before JM left to coach the Habs. Check the date on the above-linked press release. Martin resigned on June 1st.

Tin-hat stuff, maybe, but dates don’t lie.

by Donny Rivette on Jul 10, 2009 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

Frolik is in the center option……shouldn’t he be a wing?

by CLG_74 on Jul 10, 2009 11:15 PM EDT reply actions  

He’s listed on three different sites as three different natural forward positions. Sweet pickup!

by Donny Rivette on Jul 10, 2009 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

Obviously the wings we have can be moved around to the off-wing, or centers can learn to play wing. I still think our biggest concern right now should be defense. Keith Ballard and Bryan McCabe are the only pair I feel comfortable with. Jordan Leopold is a nice pickup, no doubts. But he’s had seasons cut drastically short by injury 2 of the last 3 years and is probably a 2nd pair guy at best. After that… yikes. Allen missed all of last year. So figure Ballard\Leopold and McCabe\Allen… And then who? Ellerby\Koistinen pairing?

I think we can make do with the scoring options we have now, assuming Horton plays the whole year like he finished last season, Frolik doesn’t have a sophomore slump, Reinprecht turns out to be the playmaker he’s advertised as, Dvorak and Campbell chip in their 15-20. We could have another year where we see 10+ guys hit 20 goals, and that could work. But if we’re giving up 4-5 goals a game, it won’t really matter.

by Stanley C. on Jul 11, 2009 11:34 AM EDT reply actions  

I agree….can I change my vote?

That is one reason why I wasn’t sad to see Olli go…..didn’t matter how many goals he scored & I got tired of people saying “there goes our scorer”. If we couldn’t stop the other team from scoring more, what did it matter how many “we” scored.

We seemed to have it figured out this past season….then the deadline came & went & so did our defense. If we don’t get anyone else for D, then maybe having the J-Bo monkey off of their backs, will improve their play.

by CLG_74 on Jul 11, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

For the D...

…there’s always uber-veteran Jassen Cullimore, who’d be a great backbone to match with Ellerby/Garrison. He knows the DeBoer system, and he’s cheap cheap cheap. Cheaper than Steve Eminger.

by Donny Rivette on Jul 11, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

At this point, Cullimore isn’t a horrible option. Kind of makes me wonder what’s been going on in those BAC offices the last week. Lots of signings for Rochester, though…

It’s one thing to be proud of your farm system and have a lot of faith in the future of some of those kids, but you can’t expect rookies to make up 1 of your defense and 1 of your offense and have any semblance of a successful season.

by Stanley C. on Jul 11, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Gotta start somewhere. And there are a LOT of young guys – drafted high – who may be ready for the big game from within the Florida system.

The club is covering its deficiencies. Not by bringing in fading soon-to-be Hall of Famers, but solid veterans (witness Reinprecht/Leopold/Clemmensen), and building through character.

Other than that, they’re still on the hook for a killer signing.

by Donny Rivette on Jul 12, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, he’ll be back if Ellerby and Garrison aren’t deemed ready. Sexton’s already said he might be interested in bringing him back, and he’s the kind of guy who gets signed late in the summer or after a camp, anyway. Or we might see him again if new Ville’s a bust.

by John Beatty on Jul 12, 2009 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

The key is getting him on a two-way deal, if he’ll acquiesce to it. But it’s tough to argue – even at his age – that he cannot play full-time in the NHL.

by Donny Rivette on Jul 13, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

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Florida Panthers Roster

# Pos. DOB W H
Krys Barch 21 RW 3/26/1980 237 6-1
Sean Bergenheim 20 LW 2/8/1984 200 5-11
Matt Bradley 22 RW 6/13/1978 201 6-3
Brian Campbell 51 D 5/23/1979 189 6-0
Scott Clemmensen 30 G 7/23/1977 203 6-3
Keaton Ellerby 4 D 11/5/1988 220 6-4
Tomas Fleischmann 14 RW 5/16/1984 192 6-1
Brian Foster 33 G 2/4/1987 175 6-1
Jason Garrison 52 D 11/13/1984 216 6-2
Marcel Goc 57 C 8/24/1983 202 6-1
Erik Gudbranson 44 D 1/7/1992 195 6-4
Ed Jovanovski 55 D 6/26/1976 221 6-3
Tomas Kopecky 82 RW 2/5/1982 203 6-3
Dmitry Kulikov 7 D 10/29/1990 196 6-1
John Madden 10 C 5/4/1973 190 5-11
Jacob Markstrom 25 G 1/31/1990 178 6-3
Shawn Matthias 18 C 2/19/1988 216 6-4
Mikael Samuelsson 26 RW 12/23/1976 218 6-2
Mike Santorelli 13 C 12/14/1985 190 6-0
Jack Skille 12 RW 5/19/1987 215 6-1
Tyson Strachan 23 D 10/30/1984 215 6-2
Marco Sturm 16 LW 9/8/1978 194 6-0
Jose Theodore 60 G 9/13/1976 185 5-11
Scottie Upshall 19 RW 10/7/1983 200 6-0
Kris Versteeg 32 RW 5/13/1986 182 5-10
Mike Weaver 43 D 5/2/1978 186 5-9
Stephen Weiss 9 C 4/3/1983 193 5-11

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