Category: NHL

DETROIT (AP) — Cam Talbot made 21 saves, Mason Appleton scored twice and the Detroit Red Wings beat Florida 4-1 on Wednesday night as the Panthers dropeed their second game in a row after a 3-0-0 start. Appleton opened the scoring at 2:09 of the second on a snap shot. Patrick Kane added a power-play goal at 9:36, firing a shot from right side to the near top corner. Appleton put it away into an empty net with 1:58 left, and Michael Rasmussen also had an empty-netter. Brad Marchand scored on a wraparound for Florida with 5:55 left in the second. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 21 shots. Before the...

By DAN GELSTON PHILADELPHIA — Sean Couturier’s second goal of the game with 4:10 remaining snapped a tie and sent the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Monday night in Rick Tocchet’s home coaching debut. Bobby Brink and Christian Dvorak added late empty-netters for the Flyers. The Flyers captain, Couturier became the longest-tenured athlete in Philadelphia sports once Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham retired at the end of last season. The Flyers lost their first two games of the season on the road but got a needed lift on a throwback night at home. Tyson...

SUNRISE — This never gets old. Never. It even felt better in the repeating late Tuesday afternoon as the “Stanley Cup Champions” banner rose slowly to the rafters, Florida Panthers players watched on the ice with arms locked around each other and the sold-out crowd applauded. “Goose-bumps,” said Panthers forward Jesper Boqvist. Yes, this scene never gets old, no matter how many times it might happen, and the fans already were counting ahead. “We want three,” they chanted in the final seconds of the offseason inside Amerant Bank Arena. “We want three!” The unimaginable is now imaginable. “We...

FORT LAUDERDALE — To say his last 48 hours have been a whirlwind would be an understatement. Mads Kongsbak Klyvo — the Danish forward taken No. 112 by the Florida Panthers in the fourth round of the NHL draft — was at home in Denmark, gathered around the TV with his family, when he heard his name called on Saturday afternoon. Just 48 hours later, the 18 year old was on the ice in Fort Lauderdale. “It’s been pretty overwhelming,” Klyvo said on Monday after the Panthers’ first practice of player development camp. “I got a call quite quickly after the draft, and then we figured out a flight to...

SUNRISE — The Panthers repeated as champions with a 5-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. Now it is time for a repeat parade. The Panthers’ championship parade is tentatively planned for Sunday, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. The parade will “most likely” be down A1A in Fort Lauderdale Beach, Trantalis said. Last year’s beachfront parade drew an estimated crowd of at least 200,000 people despite pouring rain and lightning. The 2024 parade was the culmination of a weeklong celebration that featured Panthers players pouring beer onto...

SUNRISE — Sam Bennett has been called many things in his career. A rat. A draft bust. A dirty player. He can add a new title: Conn Smythe Trophy winner. Bennett helped the Panthers lift their second straight Stanley Cup with a win over Edmonton on Tuesday, and he won the award given to the playoffs’ most valuable player. Bennett is the Panthers’ first-ever Conn Smythe winner; Edmonton’s Connor McDavid won the award last year despite the Oilers losing the series. Bennett had 15 playoff goals, leading the league, and seven assists. He scored five goals and had one assist in the Stanley Cup...

SUNRISE — In the end, it wasn’t as much a competition as it was a coronation. The Florida Panthers proved themselves undisputed kings of the NHL, repeating as Stanley Cup champions by defeating the Edmonton Oilers in six games. Sam Reinhart’s remarkable four-goal effort and a near-shutout from goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky anchored a 5-1 Game 6 win Tuesday night at Amerant Bank Arena to keep the Cup in South Florida. Last year, it was the celebration of a franchise that that had struggled for decades, residing in sunshine and playing a sport on ice, finally reaching the NHL’s mountaintop. If...