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Florida Panthers

27 reports in the 2026-27 edition.

Uvis Balinskis

Uvis Balinskis

#26

D · Florida Panthers

Undrafted out of Latvia, and twenty goals of bad luck in seven hundred and seventy minutes.

Aleksander Barkov

Aleksander Barkov

#16

C · Florida Panthers

He does not appear anywhere in last season, because he did not play a minute of it.

John Beecher

John Beecher

#17

C · Florida Panthers

A first-round pick, six foot three, and twenty-eight points in a hundred and sixty-five games.

Sam Bennett

Sam Bennett

#9

C · Florida Panthers

Eighty-two penalty minutes, twenty-six goals, and the player other teams complain about in June.

Aaron Ekblad

Aaron Ekblad

#5

D · Florida Panthers

The first overall pick in 2014, eight hundred games later, doing the quiet half.

Lars Eller

Lars Eller

#20

C · Florida Panthers

Eleven hundred and eighty-four games, and half his shots from inside twenty feet.

MacKenzie Entwistle

MacKenzie Entwistle

#44

RW · Florida Panthers

Minus twenty-nine in sixty-seven games, and no five-on-five record to explain it with.

Casey Fitzgerald

Casey Fitzgerald

#4

D · Florida Panthers

Sixty-three NHL games across nine professional seasons, and no goals in any of them.

Gustav Forsling

Gustav Forsling

#42

D · Florida Panthers

A hundred and twenty-sixth overall, twenty-two and a half minutes a night, and two goals.

Radko Gudas

Radko Gudas

#6

D · Florida Panthers

Eight hundred and eighty-five games, sixty-seven penalty minutes, and a median shot from sixty feet.

Garnet Hathaway

Garnet Hathaway

#21

RW · Florida Panthers

Six hundred and seventy-two games, undrafted, and one goal.

Seth Jones

Seth Jones

#3

D · Florida Panthers

Twenty-three and three-quarter minutes a night, and a reputation that has finally caught up with the results.

Sam Lafferty

Sam Lafferty

#18

C · Florida Panthers

The first percentile in expected goals, in two hundred and forty-nine minutes.

Anton Lundell

Anton Lundell

#15

C · Florida Panthers

Forty-four points from the third line, and the best two-way centre nobody discusses.

Eetu Luostarinen

Eetu Luostarinen

#27

C · Florida Panthers

Fifty-nine per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, from a checking-line centre.

Brad Marchand

Brad Marchand

#63

LW · Florida Panthers

Five foot nine, thirty-eight years old, a thousand and thirty-four points.

Jacob Markstrom

Jacob Markstrom

#25

G · Florida Panthers

A .883, on a team that gave up the twelfth-fewest chances in the league.

Niko Mikkola

Niko Mikkola

#77

D · Florida Panthers

Six foot six, chances dead level, and the goals went thirty-three to fifty-eight against.

Alexander Petrovic

Alexander Petrovic

#36

D · Florida Panthers

Six foot five, and not a single shot from inside twenty feet all season.

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Cole Reinhardt

LW · Florida Panthers

Nine goals in fifty-nine games, and the fourth percentile underneath them.

Sam Reinhart

Sam Reinhart

#13

C · Florida Panthers

Fifty per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and a minus-eighteen that belongs to somebody else.

Akira Schmid

Akira Schmid

#40

G · Florida Panthers

Six foot five, a .8925, and the better of the two goaltenders Florida used.

Cole Schwindt

Cole Schwindt

#79

C · Florida Panthers

Five goals in twenty-nine games from the fourth line, and three in his last ten.

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Donovan Sebrango

D · Florida Panthers

Sixty-eight penalty minutes, no goals, and sixty shots from a median of fifty-four feet.

Brady Tkachuk

Brady Tkachuk

#8

LW · Florida Panthers

Sixty per cent of the expected goals — ninety-ninth percentile — and his club still got outscored with him on the ice.

Matthew Tkachuk

Matthew Tkachuk

#19

LW · Florida Panthers

Thirteen feet — the shortest average shot in this book — from a man who played thirty-one games.

Carter Verhaeghe

Carter Verhaeghe

#23

C · Florida Panthers

A third-round pick who has scored a hundred and seventy-two goals, and shoots from thirty feet.

How they were used

2025-26 · 82 games

Measured from shift charts at five-on-five, not projected. Units are built from the strongest partnership outward and ordered by how much they were used; the percentage is the share of the first player’s five-on-five ice time spent alongside each linemate. A low number means the club never settled on a combination. Players who have gone are marked — either to another club, or off an NHL roster altogether, which covers retirement and an unsigned summer alike.

Forwards

First line

R Mackie Samoskevich now SEA 941m
C Evan Rodrigues now NJD 36%
L A.J. Greer now ANA 31%

Fourth line

C Jesper Boqvist now NJD 782m
C Luke Kunin off the roster 17%
L Noah Gregor now WPG 14%

Defence

First pair

Second pair

Third pair

D Jeff Petry off the roster 777m

Goaltending

By games played

G Sergei Bobrovsky now TOR 52 GP
G Daniil Tarasov now DET 33 GP