It’s Florida Panthers day on NHL.com!
There are a few articles you can access from the one residing on the main page: Inside look at Florida Panthers, which gets into the Cats quest for the rare three-peat.
Tom Gulitti ranks Florida’s top five prospects as such: 1. Matvei Shuravin (D), 2. Jack Devine (F), 3. Mikulas Hovorka (D), 4. Linus Eriksson (F), 5. Mike Benning (D). Interesting…
Gulitti also tackles 3 questions facing the Panthers coming into the season.
Chris Meaney takes a look at the team’s fantasy rankings, projections for 2025-26 and NHL EDGE stats leaders.
With the World Junior Summer Showcase in the books, The Athletic’s 2026 World Juniors roster projections article ($) had the aforementioned Eriksson earning a spot on Sweden’s roster for the upcoming 2026 World Junior Championship in Minneapolis-St. Paul, saying this about the 20-year-old: Linus Eriksson is a proven returnee to anchor the bottom six. Eriksson played in three games at the WJSS (all against various iterations of Team USA) and produced an empty-net and an assist. Hopefully, that will be the case for Florida’s second-rounder in 2024.
There was competitive hockey played yesterday at the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup. The United States doubled up Slovakia 6-3; Canada got by Finland 5-3; Sweden trounced Germany 10-0 and Czechia beat Switzerland by a 6-2 count.
The Seattle Kraken re-signed defenseman Ryker Evans to a new two-year contract worth $4.1 million. Evans was the Kraken’s second round pick (35th overall) in 2021. He finished the 2024-25 campaign with five goals and 25 points in 73 games.