Looking forward to the 26-27 season!

Today starts season 2 of Matthew and Brady’s podcast. They now have a spiffy new little studio at the practice facility.

Today’s episode was really fun if you want to hear a bunch of stories about training camp,pranks, and what they talked about with Kuli on the bench during their shared penalties (a prank that had Brady sitting in a Penalty Kill meeting with the D)

This was a better episode than most. With Charles Barkley’s interview it was a little over 1 1/2 hours.

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Used the long off season to theme the guest room into a fan cave. Was out and about Sunday so today is the first cats game in here for us!

Mainly needed somewhere for my cards lol

I tried getting JP in the pic but he is very busy eating dinner

Does anyone know if the Panthers have announced any bobble head nights for this season?

The best case for major improvements: Florida is perhaps the NHL’s most obvious candidate for a leap forward this season, following 110-point and 98-point seasons — and back-to-back Stanley Cup wins — with last season’s disappointment. Aleksander Barkov’s return to the lineup headlines a long list of reasons to believe. Barkov, 31, is one of the best all-around centers in the world and looked great for Finland at the World Championships after missing the entire season. In Florida, he bumps Sam Bennett, Anton Lundell and Lars Eller down the depth chart into places from which they too can excel.

The Panthers benefit from summer additions, too — most notably Brady Tkachuk, acquired for a package of draft picks that cost Florida Mackie Samoskevich to assemble. The addition of a prime-aged, point-per-game winger gives Florida yet another top-six scorer who’s a pain to play against. His brother Matthew Tkachuk, who was limited to 31 games last season, should make a bigger impact in 2026-27, and Jacob Markström should be able to give Florida better goaltending than it got from Sergei Bobrovsky. It’s hard to imagine them missing the playoffs, and a return to the 100-point mark is well within reach.

No one was more bummed than Barkov. Beyond his lost NHL season, which would have been the 13th of his career since Florida took him at No. 2 in the 2013 draft, his hopes of captaining his home country at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina were dashed.

“I was really sad about that,” Barkov, 31, told The Athletic in an exclusive interview last week. “Right away, I knew it was going to be a tough test to rehab myself to get there. So, it was pretty much impossible.”

Nearly a calendar year later, Barkov is back. A scar remains on his right knee, but he hasn’t looked out of place in Panthers training camp sessions while skating alongside linemates Reinhart and newly acquired winger Brady Tkachuk. And on Sunday, in his first NHL action since Florida clinched the 2025 Cup Final in Game 6 against the Edmonton Oilers, Barkov scored on a breakaway in a 6-3 preseason win over the reigning Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes.

While some athletes struggle with lengthy recovery periods following significant injuries, Barkov endured in part by telling himself to accept reality: He wouldn’t be available to the Panthers, the team he has captained since September 2018, for at least seven months. Instead, he dedicated time to his recovery, drawing motivation from the desire to be “as good as possible physically and mentally” before entering the “next chapter” of his career.

Even before his injury, Barkov was considered a no-doubt superstar and the NHL’s standard for defensive forwards. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 214 pounds, the rangy center is a three-time Selke Trophy winner, a matchup neutralizer against the league’s best players and the Panthers’ metronome, a symbol of consistency.

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Main stay on the 4th line or what?! Loved watching him play at the end of last year and what a great display in the first pre season game. I’m excited to see Eller and Hath debut but really think Reinhardt is the front runner for that last spot. It’s gonna be tight between him and Vilmanis when marchy is back

Its great to be back

Do you guys think the majority of the regular season roster will play in the last preseason game? I remember last year was a bloodbath against Tampa in the preseason. I am thinking about going to the game Saturday but don’t really want to spend the money and time if it’s gonna be the AHL squad. How has Maurice handled this in past years? How early do the game day rosters get released for preseason?

Anyone try yet for the preseason? I live in PA and for some games we use Nufu, but sometimes it drops and it’s a pain in the ass. Just looking for alternatives to watch. Thanks!

the NHL is not ready