The Florida Panthers will be on the ice for training camp in Ft. Lauderdale today with Group 1 getting started at 1 p.m. and Group 2 going at 3:30 p.m.
According to general manager Bill Zito, Matthew Tkachuk will be out until December (don’t hold him to it) and fourth line center Tomas Nosek will also be out for a few months following offseason knee surgery.
The Charlotte Checkers have new uniforms and they are pretty sweet. The new design is inspired by Charlotte’s NHL affiliate, and features a stripe pattern that pays homage to Florida’s sweaters. You can check them out by clicking here.
The Athletic’s Corey Pronman tabbed Sandis Vilmanis as the Panthers best prospect at the 2025 NHL Prospect Tournament in Wesley Chapel, FL, saying this about the 21-year-old, who scored twice in seven periods of work: Vilmanis is an easy player to like due to the pace and energy he brings to shifts. He got to a lot of pucks and outmuscled players often in battles. He’s not the most creative forward you will ever see, but he had good flashes of skill with the puck. He looked like a player with a legit shot to become a bottom-six wing in the NHL. Hopefully Vilmanis is ok after crashing into the boards late in the first period of the final game against Nashville.
Prospect Stepan Zvyagin drew an assist on the game-opening goal in Dinamo-Molodechno’s 2-1 win over Brest in action from Belarus’ Extraliga. Zvyagin has started the season with six points in five games.
Stepan Gorbunov registered two shots on goal in Traktor Chelyabinsk’s 2-0 victory over HC Avtomobilist in action from the KHL. Gorbunov has scored one goal in six games with Traktor.