Litter Box Cats, a Florida Panthers community

Certainly one of my submissions will carry a wee bit of controversy. Huge thanks to Sean at Puck Daddy for the invite.

From your new Panthers Overlords: As fans, you will always know where we stand as an organization. We will be accessible to you, and will give you as much information as possible about our hockey club. We will communicate with you, through the media, through letters like this one, through blogs and face-to-face at games and town hall meetings.

From The Puck Stops Here, via Kukla's Korner: Alan Cohen was tired of paying for Florida Panthers losses and he decided to get out. He is leaving the team to his major partners in his 2001 purchase (Cliff Viner and Stu Siegel). Probably the deal is not for a significant amount of money. It is Cohen getting out and leaving things to the partners that remain. The partners have little choice but the either buy him out and assume any losses on the team or to give up their ownership and lose any equity they have in the Florida Panthers. These men are both Florida businessmen who probably never had any desire to be more than minority partners in a local ownership group of an NHL team. With the majority partner departing, they are forced to accept a bigger role than they ever wanted in an effort to not "lose their shirt" in this investment. This is remarkably similar to what happened with the Phoenix Coyotes.

From the official site: The press conference will take place following the Panthers morning skate ahead of their Monday night matchup with the Los Angeles Kings, and will feature Panthers ownership representatives, President & COO Michael Yormark, General Manager Randy Sexton, Head Coach Pete DeBoer and other VIPs. Shall we dust off the speculation once more...?