The Florida Panthers will board their charter jet and leave Fort Lauderdale around 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
They may have a new teammate or two upon arrival in Philadelphia.
The NHL’s annual trade deadline comes at 3 on Wednesday with the Panthers saying they are looking for “anyone who makes our team better” while not tipping their hand on who, exactly, that may be.
Tom Rowe, the team’s general manager and interim head coach, will be on that Philadelphia-bound flight — one without internet access — when the deadline comes.
When Rowe was named coach in November, he said he was turning over the day-to-day operations of his GM job to assistants Eric Joyce and Steve Werier as well as former GM Dale Tallon who now holds the title of president of hockey operations.