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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

by David Dwork on Mar 20, 2010 10:47 AM EDT reply actions  

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!

by Karl Selvig on Mar 20, 2010 1:49 PM EDT reply actions  

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…

by Karl Selvig on Mar 20, 2010 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

i wonder how doug mclean would be as GM?

LETS GO HEAT!! LETS GO PANTHERS!! GO FISH GO!! GO FINS!

by SNOOP97DAWG on Mar 20, 2010 2:55 PM EDT 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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Florida Panthers Roster

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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
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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
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Jose Theodore 60 G 9/13/1976 185 5-11
Scottie Upshall 19 RW 10/7/1983 200 6-0
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Mike Weaver 43 D 5/2/1978 186 5-9
Stephen Weiss 9 C 4/3/1983 193 5-11

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