Crafting a fool-proof game plan to tame the Florida Panthers? It’s an undertaking as fruitless as trying to duck traffic on I-93 South at 4:59 p.m.
Matthew Tkachuk draws most of the headlines as Florida’s pugnacious poster boy. But Paul Maurice’s team boasts multiple elite talents capable of tilting the ice in their favor.
Aleksander Barkov might be the best two-way centerman in the post-Bergeron era, while Sam Reinhart lit the lamp 57 times in 2023-24.
Sergei Bobrovsky is a Vezina Trophy finalist, Brandon Montour is one of the most potent playmaking D-men in the league (106 points in last 146 games) while Aaron Ekblad and Gustav Forsling anchor the NHL’s top-ranked defense (2.