After the latest disastrous post-All-Star Game stretch for the Florida Panthers, 5-10-2 and 0-6-1 at home, it’s time to talk about serious structural changes organization-wide once again. Hiring Joel Quenneville and spending to the cap was the right decision this summer to help push the Panthers over the top, but even with those two moves the Panthers are where they always are in March: likely out of the playoffs, now for the 21st time in 26 seasons of existence.
This kind of failure should never be acceptable, but with the Panthers, it’s sadly normalized and internalized.