Florida Panthers Ups & Downs: Week Nine
by Alexander Calloway on Dec 4, 2011 6:00 PM EST
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PrintUps & Downs is a new feature that looks at the individual performances of your Florida Panthers for the past week.
2011-12 Florida Panthers
14-8-4 (32 points), 1st in NHL Southeast Division
Goals For: 73 (11th of 30), Goals Against: 65 (9th of 30)
| Team | GP | W | L | OTL | PTS | PTS% | GF | GA | PP | PPO | PP% | PPA | PPOA | PK% | SH | SHA |
| Florida Panthers | 26 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 32 | .615 | 73 | 65 | 20 | 107 | 18.69 | 13 | 73 | 82.19 | 3 | 2 |
| League Average | 26 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 28 | .553 | 71 | 71 | 16 | 97 | 16.98 | 16 | 97 | 83.02 | 2 | 2 |
Biggest Gains: Tomas Fleischmann
Fleischmann was alive and on fire this week. Flash scored four points, two goals and two assists, and recorded 18(!) shots on net during the week, which caused his shooting percentage to take a dive to 16.9%. He's now tied with Kris Versteeg for the team lead in goals.
Biggest Losses: Evgenii Dadonov
Dadonov replaced Kris Versteeg on the first line in Los Angeles, a chance to prove he can handle top-six minutes. The next game in San Jose, he was a healthy scratch. Dadonov played two games, and registered just one shot on goal. One shot in just 18 minutes on the ice.
| Goaltenders | Trend | Notes |
| Scott Clemmensen |
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Played one game, and allowed three goals off 26 shots. |
| Jose Theodore |
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Faced 53 shots and stopped 50 of them. I think its safe to say, Theodore is the best goalie in the Southeast. |
| Defensemen | ||
| Brian Campbell |  |
Scored one point during the week (an assist), and went plus-two. Still the team leader is assists and the NHL leader in power-play assists. |
| Keaton Ellerby |  |
Sat in the press box all week. |
| Jason Garrison | |
Didn't score any points, but didn't allow any either, going plus-three |
| Erik Gudbranson | |
Scored his first point (an assist), and is starting to show confidence out on the ice. He needs one more point to tie Ellerby. |
| Ed Jovanovski | |
Went plus-two and recorded three shots on goal. |
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Dmitry Kulikov |
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Scored a goal and recorded four shots, increasing his shooting percentage to 4.8. |
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Mike Weaver |
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Didn't score any points and went minus-two. But he still leads the team in blocked shots with 43. |
| Forwards | ||
| Sean Bergenheim | |
Scored the only goal against the Kings, went plus-two, and did this. |
| Matt Bradley |  |
Out indefinitely with an Upper-body injury. |
| Mark Cullen | |
Played all three games, didn't record a point in the 24 minutes he played. |
| Evgenii Dadonov |  |
See "Biggest losses." |
| Tomas Fleischmann | |
See "Biggest gains." |
| Marcel Goc | |
Out indefinitely with an Upper-body injury. |
| Bracken Kearns | |
Played two games and fought Colin Fraser |
| Tim Kennedy | |
Tim Kennedy hasn't scored a point since October 22nd, but he had seven hits during the week on just 28 minutes of ice time. |
| Tomas Kopecky | |
Got two assists and blocked a shot during the week. |
| Shawn Matthias | |
Playing 43 minutes, Matthias scored two goals and recorded seven shots. Raising his shooting percentage to 13.5, fourth on the team. |
| Mike Santorelli | |
Santorelli hasn't scored since November 17th. |
| Jack Skille | |
Skille scored a shorthanded goal, and had 11 hits during the week. He leads the team with 50 hits, the closest is Dmitry Kulikov with 33! |
| Marco Sturm | |
Scored a goal in his return to San Jose. That's about it. |
| Scottie Upshall | |
Out indefinitely with an Upper-body injury. |
| Kris Versteeg | |
Played two games, and scored two assists in his return in San Jose. |
| Stephen Weiss | |
Weiss scored four points during the week, one goal and three assists. But what's more impressive is he blocked five shots. He has 26 so far this season. |
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Great article. I think that Santorelli is due. He is working too hard not to break out of this funk. I believe he will be the one who most benefits from Samuelson getting healthy. Imagine a line of Sturm-Santorelli-Samuelson. Thats a lot of offensive talent and Santorellis willingness to go to the net will result in a lot of goals for him.
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Which players are most likely to be back in for next game? Samuelsson i know has been skating and was maybe gonna play vs SJ
Skille bring the heat!!
A lil thunder and a lil lightning is what the Cats are going to bring this year.
by trinidaddy on Dec 4, 2011 7:48 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I meant Skille bringing* the heat
A lil thunder and a lil lightning is what the Cats are going to bring this year.
by trinidaddy on Dec 4, 2011 7:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Dadnov and San Antonio boys.....
Wow, Dadonov not ready for prime time. I still would have pegged him as a starter last night. A quick exit back to the Rampage is in his future.
The San Antonio boys seem to be entering the NHL luke warm instead of bringing that energy that Dineen wants….They will be making a quick exit when Goc, Bradley, Sammuelson return next week.. Im sad for Kennedy who I thought was going to break out this year.
Now, Im starting to see why the Rampage is at the bottom of the standings. These guys should be coming up to the NHL and scoring points or at least hitting!!!
You should never expect an AHL player to come to the NHL and start scoring. Thats why there in the AHL.
I’m putting here for reflection later on in the season…. #14 Tomas [Fleischmann] is getting a 40G season. FLASH COUNT: 12G/15A
by RPC on Sep 17, 2011 5:20 PM MDT
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by Chris S Roberts on Dec 4, 2011 11:16 PM EST up reply actions
Kennedy had 10 goals and 26 points in his rookie year with the Sabres. Dadonov had 8 goals and 17 points in 36 games with the Panthers last year. We’re not exactly talking career minor-leaguers with these two. Just based on their NHL point totals, they should be scoring more. Not gobs of goals, but a couple of goals each and some assists.
"We don't need the designated goon. Those fights aren't even fun to watch." -Mike Milbury
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For me, that’s a pretty small NHL sample size to be basing expectations on. I get your point but mine and I think Chris’ was these guys have seen more games in the AHL and weren’t exactly lighting it up down there. Your logic is sound though. You could apply that to all the forwards who are not matching there usual output yet.
I need to decide by tomorrow…Markstrom or Kulikov jersey???
Anyone have an opinion. Would love to hear which yall would rather have
Of the two, Markstrom is the long-term “guarantee”. Just sayin’.
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by Donny Rivette on Dec 5, 2011 12:18 AM EST up reply actions
There are no guarantees.
"We don't need the designated goon. Those fights aren't even fun to watch." -Mike Milbury
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You can’t go wrong with a Theo 60!
by Alexander Calloway on Dec 5, 2011 2:50 PM EST up reply actions
Hence the quotes :)
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by Donny Rivette on Dec 5, 2011 2:51 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Eagerly awaiting Samuelsson’s addition to this list.
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by Donny Rivette on Dec 5, 2011 12:24 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Really impressed by your guys recent success. Your first line is awesome! Weiss is a stud. Hope Samuelsson works out for you guys when he returns. Would really like to see him light it up and have fun.
On our side, Booth is finally clicking on a line with Higgins and Kesler, with a pile of points and a few goals in us last five. They’ve been dominant. We’ve nicknamed them the “American Express Line” (a sort of callback to Naslumd days, where we called his line the Westcoast Express)
Higgins and Booth each had a goal and two assists in last night’s game. I almost felt sorry for Calgary. Almost. OK, I loved it – nothing but sand and ashes for Jay-Bo. I’m good with that.
+1 Booth 2nd Star on NHL.com Good to see that some of the Booth we knew. GWG for Higgings.. too bad that didn’t help me this week in my fantasy team :-( I’m too competitive!!
I hereby predict Captain Mike Weaver #43 will score 6G 20A -RCR 0G8A 11/21
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by RPC on Dec 5, 2011 8:23 AM EST up reply actions
I do and always will have serious bro-love for Booth. I really am rooting for him and my transformation into a surrogate Canuck fan is now complete. His line is quite possibly my favorite line in hockey in which none of the players wear Panthers sweaters, Kesler is awesome, always had a soft spot for Higgins, and seeing Booth do well is encouraging as ever.
Hockey is a business, only we fans love it as a game.
I feel like I agree with you in that I really like that whole line of players, especially considering two of them are former panthers. I really liked Higgins in his short time here and obviously Booth was somone I really liked.
The thing is though, I tried detaching myself from Booth when he was traded and tried convincing myself that trading him was the right thing to do. I also hate to be the loser of our trade, so in a sense I’ve been rooting against Booth…. although I still want to see him succeed. So confusing.
Higgins
Higgins was a hard worker in his time here. Too bad he got hurt and too bad he got traded. I think he would have fit in very nicely on this version of the Panthers.
Good for those guys. I’m happy to see Chris Higgins doing well again after that rough season.
Now if Kesler would start scoring some more goals, it would help my fantasy team tremendously…
"We don't need the designated goon. Those fights aren't even fun to watch." -Mike Milbury
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btw
Nice work Alex. I like this creation.
OT but did anyone else see that sick pass Corey Perry made to Ryan Getzlaf on the first Ducks goal last night? Thing of beauty.
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