Sunday Caterwaul: Panthers Open Forum
Finally come to the conclusion of a dreadfully (but very thankfully) busy week on my end so a Caterwaul was definitely in order. The Panthers made a couple of minor headlines in recent days, h...
Finally come to the conclusion of a dreadfully (but very thankfully) busy week on my end so a Caterwaul was definitely in order. The Panthers made a couple of minor headlines in recent days, h...
2012 Development Camp is just about in the books as today marks the final scheduled activities for three dozen or so prospects and hopefuls. Of note heading into the weekend: The Sun-Sentinel...
Florida braces for another flurry of signings, hopefully.
Wild make gargantuan splash as free agency ramps back up
Just a few notes today: Florida overlord Tallon discusses the opening day's action from 2012 Development Camp (courtesy of the club, above) while Day Two is already underway from Coral Springs....
Needed an outlet for the second day of Free Agency. Just in case. Already G Martin Brodeur is off the market (to no one's surprise, back to Newark) but plenty of others from every position remain...
NHL Free Agency bidding begins noon Sunday (and we'll be chatting Live from our Wellington War Room at 10 a.m. ET) but there should be plenty of rumors, speculation, innuendo, and flat-out fantasy...
We're only a few hours from Dale Tallon's third appearance in command of the Panthers' draft table - which has been noted as happily more than a few footsteps away from the Consol Energy Center...
Rampage, Cats in WHC, and a big night ahead for Huberdeau
Tuesday's Result (6) New Jersey defeated (5) Philadelphia 4-1, win series by same count. Safely ensconced as one half of the Eastern Conference Final, the Devils generated three straight victories...
Only one player remaining in NHL postseason action has a better home faceoff winning percentage than that of Marcel Goc's 64.9 (48-for-74): Philadelphia's Danny Briere leads all active participants...
Saturday's Result (7) Washington over (1) NY Rangers, 3-2 (REG): This about sums it up for the Rags; local reaction from Japers' Rink and Blueshirt Banter. Series tied at 2, Game Five tomorrow. T...
"Hits" is (are?) a divisive statistic among fans: is it a legitimate measurement of a player's contributions to his club regarding "strategic" physicality? Or yet another attempt by the league to...
Against the NHL's Southeast Division, winger Kris Versteeg ranked first among Florida Panthers with 11 goals in 21 games on the year, accounting for a click under half of the 23 total he scored in...
Blueliner Brian Campbell (above, dematerializing) not only led the Florida Panthers with 24 assists from BankAtlantic Center - placing him 28th overall in the National Hockey League during 2011-12...
Bench Minors - typically known as "too-many-men" in our somewhat jaded ears over the past seven months - were a brutal sticking point for the Florida Panthers throughout the 2011-12 season. While...
Not only did Stephen Weiss lead the resurgent Florida Panthers with a 13.4% success rate on 149 shots in 2011-12, but better than a quarter of his 20 goals on the year were gamewinners: a club-best...
Short-handed goals - the regular season variety - were scarce for the Florida Panthers in 2011-12, but no worse than a year earlier: both campaigns saw the Cats finish with 4. Stephen Weiss, Kris...
Saturday's results (1) NY Rangers over (7) Washington, 3-1: 32 total SOG between the clubs; Rookie Braden Holtby proves his humanity, allows 3 goals on 14 shots. Rags lead series 1-0. Reaction from...
The dreaded "locker cleanout" day is upon us; as such the Caterwauls will enter a bit of a scaled-down version since there is simply less actual Florida Panthers news to focus on from day-to-day...
Enough with the flowery euphemisms we've been drowning in for the past 36 hours...get it done. Yesterday (7) Washington defeated (2) Boston 2-1 (OT); Caps win series 4-3, advance to Eastern...
The Cats are going to need everything forward Scottie Upshall may have left in the offensive tank on Thursday; 1 goal, 2 assists, and 8 shots in the series may well need to be replicated over a...
He set all of AHL Portland's coaching records (480 games, 266 victories and a .616 winning percentage, among many others) in six years with the Pirates, but how were Kevin Dineen's numbers in the...
"Takeaways" (TkA) is not typically found among the somewhat sexier stats which rise to the headlines with regularity, but it's worth a peek nonetheless. Forwards Tomas Fleischmann (above), Sean...
Gudbranson making his own opportunities; today's LBC game thread
The momentum, if there has been any so far in this Eastern Conference quarterfinal series between the Devils and Florida Panthers, has been fleeting. It has changed sides so quickly – from game...