Saturday Caterwaul - Panthers GameDay Musings
by Donny Rivette on Mar 20, 2010 1:17 AM EDT
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The Panthers' shiny new Den of Honor offers visitors an ability to glean "virtual" advice from past stars. Here we see Bryan McCabe (r) channeling former captain Brian Skrudland about improving line change efficiency.
Das Sabres are in town for what's turning into a rather large deal for the Cats: the christening of the "Den of Honor"...several thousand square feet of Panthers hockey goodness, celebrating not only the Cats but all of hockey in South Florida. Professional, high school, junior, it's all on display. And about darned time.
From what we're hearing, this is the real deal: a lot of love and even more coin has been poured into this shrine to All Things Pucks in Sunrise and beyond. For the occassion, a significant number of Panthers legends will be on-site through Sunday. Many you'll remember, some you may not. But all share a love for the "good old days" and consider their time with the Panthers to be among the best of their careers. They would not be here otherwise.
So on that note...what's a bigger story, considering where the club stands this year: the game, or the ceremony?
Tonight's Live Game Forum powers up around 6pm. Oh, and if you're at the BAC and snap some pictures of The Den, by all means send them to pantherslitterbox@yahoo.com and we'll post 'em all up next week. Go Cats.
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The Den of Beezertude…I love it.
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"My parents would always say, `It doesn't matter if it`s a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.'"- Dan Marino
Really?!
They invited Chris Wells? He shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the Den of Honor. It might collapse when he walks in,
by TheRatLivesOn87 on Mar 20, 2010 11:48 AM EDT reply actions
Mike Keenan’s unemployed, isn’t he? Or at least not with an organization. Maybe he could come down and trade the ‘96 Prince of Wales trophy for the 3 West Palm Beach Blaze’s Sunshine State Cups. It’s a runner up trophy for 3 titles! What a deal!
Was there for the first; swimming in the moat was pretty wild.
by Donny Rivette on Mar 20, 2010 2:49 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
HA! You and me both, but my dad wouldn’t let me swim.
And I just saw your comment on OFP about the Blaze. What an odd coincidence…
Still have a shirt from that season
by Donny Rivette on Mar 20, 2010 3:07 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I’m sure he’d be curious to know
by Donny Rivette on Mar 20, 2010 3:05 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
He wasn’t that great in Columbus. Not any better than Sexton has been so far. I still think the best option is to give Sexton a couple years, end the carousel of management, and if he hasn’t gotten the team where it needs to be, go find an assistant GM with some promise and hire him (maybe Ron Hextall?)
I know we’re all fed up with waiting for the team to not suck, but when you fire everybody every couple of years, good people don’t want to work for you. Look at the Sabres. They had some bad years, but the owners know that Regier and Ruff are good hockey people and are good at their jobs and they’ve turned it around. The players also know they can’t undermine the coach and get him fired because he’s not going anywhere. It’s going to take years to turn this around, no matter who is in charge.
Florida Panthers: Giving the league a punching bag since 2000.
by John Beatty on Mar 21, 2010 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions
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