The Florida Panthers re-signed forward MacKenzie Entwistle to a new two-year, two-way contract worth $775K at the NHL level.
Injuries limited Entwistle to just seven regular season games with Florida’s AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, in 2024-25. He scored one goal and added one assist. His marker came in the season-opener against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and he set up a goal in a home game versus the Iowa Wild on November 29.
After a long absence, Entwistle worked his way back into the lineup to appear in eight 2025 Calder Cup Playoff games, producing two goals and assist. One of his goals was shorthanded.
Originally selected by the Arizona Coyotes in the third round (69th overall) of the 2017 NHL Draft, Entwistle has played in 193 career NHL games, all with the Chicago Blackhawks, where totaled 15 goals and 35 points He has also appeared in 87 AHL games with the Rockford IceHogs and Checkers, amassing 16 goals and 41 points.
Development Camp ends with scrimmage
Team Red beat Team White 3-2 in a high-paced scrimmage to end Development Camp 2025. The two sides played two 15-minute halves, with each period broken into three different segments: 5-on-5, 4-on-4, and some lively 3-on-3 action. After each period, a shootout gave the skaters an extra chance to showcase their skills one-on-one with the goalies for the coaches and fans in attendance.
Red took the lead during the 4-on-4 portion of the first half when Quinnipiac’s Jeremy Wilmer, scored on a wraparound. Defenseman Ludvig Jansson would make it 2-0 Red before the break. After the teams came back for the second half, Boston College’s Lukas Gustafsson finished off a pretty pass from Ryan Spinale, who won a puck battle in the corner, to get Team White on the board with the goal again coming at 4-on-4. 2025 fourth-rounder Mads Kongsbak Klyvø tied it up with a nifty hesitation move in the shootout before Jonas Woo of the Medicine Hat Tigers bagged the filthy game-winner for Team Red. Tyler Muszelik, a sixth-rounder in 2022, started the game for Red and delivered a shutout in the first half, making a key stop on Shea Busch during a 2-on-2 rush. Panthers prospect Denis Gabdrakhmanov and camp invites Jacob Oster and the towering Louis-Antoine Denault also saw time between the pipes. The line of Anton Lundmark, Gracyn Sawchyn, and Hunter St. Martin was easily the most consistent and dangerous trio on the ice. Sawchyn and St. Martin played together last year and their chemistry carried over.