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The Carolina Hurricanes fell short of the Stanley Cup Final once again, losing in five games in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Florida Panthers. Now, the Panthers are headed back to their third Cup Final in a row while the Hurricanes are left to once again evaluate why they can’t get over the hump. […]

The Florida Panthers are in their third straight Stanley Cup Final as they face the Edmonton Oilers beginning June 4. They are also looking to repeat as champions, and the way to do so is to remain healthy.  On Saturday, coach Paul Maurice spoke on the status of three players who missed practice, per Jordan […]

The Florida Panthers have the look of a seasoned and grizzled veteran team that’s ready to repeat as Stanley Cup champions. They still have to finish off the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals, but the Panthers are one game away from advancing to their third consecutive Stanley Cup Finals. They’ve done so in […]

The Florida Panthers finished their Game 3 Eastern Conference Final victory over the Carolina Hurricanes without Sam Reinhart or Niko Mikkola — but both players could be back in the lineup on Monday night, head coach Paul Maurice confirmed. Reinhart didn’t play in Game 3 after suffering a lower-body injury on a hit from Canes […]

Although Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice poured cold water on his team after a 5-2 victory in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final, one thing is for certain: Aleksander Barkov is a major component of the team’s success. During the morning skate, the head coach explained why Florida has no ego in its […]

The Florida Panthers showed no signs of any fatigue from their grueling seven-game battle with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night. Just 48 hours after silencing the city of Toronto in Game 7, the Panthers strolled into Carolina and crushed the Hurricanes 5-2 in Game 1 to open the Eastern Conference Finals. Instead of […]

It’s hard being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan, given the team’s repeated failures in the Stanley Cup playoffs, just like Sunday’s 6-1 loss to the Florida Panthers in Game 7 of a second-round series. But it’s also difficult to be a player for Toronto because of the bright lights and the intense pressure that comes […]

Although the Florida Panthers trail 2-0 to the Toronto Maple Leafs, head coach Paul Maurice isn’t worried about goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. It’s the opposite. After a rough Game 1, Bobrovsky bounced back, despite giving up four goals. The Florida head coach said what he thought went well. “Didn’t love his first game,” Florida coach Paul […]

The Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs second-round matchup has high respect. Both teams respect one another, especially Panthers head coach Paul Maurice. In the regular season, Toronto cracked the Top-10 for power play effectiveness. In the 2025 NHL playoffs, they have ascended to third. Mostly due to the duo of Mitch Marner and Auston […]

The defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers were in position to put a stranglehold on their first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning after taking the first two games of the series on the road against their in-state rivals. The Panthers came home to Sunrise with momentum on their side, but they were no match […]

The defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers will start the 2025 playoffs without newcomer Jesse Puljujarvi as the forward has been suspended two games because of a high hit that was deemed to be dirty in a disciplinary hearing. Puljujarvi delivered a head shot to Tampa Bay’s Mitchell Chaffee late in Tuesday night’s game between […]

Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice is well aware that Washington Capitals sniper Alex Ovechkin is approaching Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal record — and he knows exactly how to shut the Russian down when the two heavyweight Eastern Conference teams meet in the nation’s capital on Saturday evening. “We’re just going to try and keep […]

The Florida Panthers have had back-to-back memorable playoff runs under head coach Paul Maurice. The Panthers made it all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals from the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference. They earned their spot in the postseason on the last day of the regular season and defeated the record-setting Boston […]

The Florida Panthers are in the process of defending the Stanley Cup title they won last year by outlasting the Edmonton Oilers in seven games. They have a full and complete roster, but it is not the same team they had last season. They lost multiple players to free agency in the offseason, and while […]

The Florida Panthers pulled off an epic run last year to win the first Stanley Cup in team history. While that triumph was joyous for head coach Paul Maurice and his players, it has put the spotlight and the pressure clearly on the Panthers for the 2024-25 season. The Panthers have responded quite well in […]

The Florida Panthers are the defending Stanley Cup champions, having captured the first title in franchise history last spring with a thrilling seven-game victory over the Edmonton Oilers. And thanks to his efforts behind the bench, the Panthers have rewarded head coach Paul Maurice by making sure he won’t be coaching anywhere else. On Tuesday, […]

The Florida Panthers had a mission in the 2023-24 season. They wanted to return to the Stanley Cup Final and win the famed trophy after falling short a year ago. Actually, the Panthers had a brilliant run in 2023, upsetting the heavily favored Boston Bruins, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Carolina Hurricanes before losing […]

For the first time ever, Paul Maurice and his Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions. It took the head coach almost three decades, and the franchise just over three, but this title will live forever. The Panthers outlasted a furious Edmonton Oilers series comeback, winning 2-1 in Game 7 at Amerant Bank Arena on Monday […]

The Stanley Cup Final was extended up until Game 7 but the Florida Panthers have finally won it. For three straight games after going up 3-0, Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers were trying to do what was only accomplished by the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs. But, Paul Maurice along with Matthew Tkachuk and Carter […]

The Florida Panthers know that the pressure is on in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. Florida jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the series, but has let Edmonton crawl back in with two wins in a row. Game 6 takes place in Edmonton, so the Panthers are aware that the Oilers will […]

The Florida Panthers are in a real series now with the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Final, losing two straight after going up 3-0 in the series with Game 6 taking place on Friday in Edmonton, but Panthers head coach Paul Maurice said nothing has changed with the approach heading into the next game. […]

The Florida Panthers have a strong hold on the Edmonton Oilers late in the 2024 Stanley Cup Final. However, after leading the series 3-0, Florida allowed Edmonton to gain momentum with an 8-1 Game 4 victory. As a result, head coach Paul Maurice is mulling personnel changes for the Panthers’ pivotal Game 5 matchup. The […]

Paul Maurice and the Florida Panthers are closer than they’ve ever been to winning a Stanley Cup, but the quest for a first-ever championship seemed very far away when the team plane was stuck in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. The Cats were delayed by more than three hours trying to get across the country and […]

The New York Rangers were eliminated in six games by the Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday, but that was not the fault of goalie Igor Shesterkin, and Panthers head coach Paul Maurice had nothing but nice words to say about the Rangers and specifically Shesterkin in his press conference after the […]

New York Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba was fined $5,000 by the National Hockey League after a questionable elbow on Florida Panthers forward Evan Rodrigues in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final on Sunday — but Paul Maurice has no sympathy for the Blueshirts’ captain. “Take the hat, pass it around. Poor lad. Poor Jake. […]

After three straight victories to take a commanding 3-1 series lead, the Florida Panthers failed to close out the Boston Bruins at home yesterday. The 2-1 defeat means Paul Maurice and the Panthers will have to travel back to Boston on Friday in hopes of closing the series out or risk a Game 7. Maurice […]

The Florida Panthers made quick work of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the NHL playoffs as they won the series in five games. Now, the Panthers are taking on the Boston Bruins, and game one didn’t go so well. The Bruins cruised to a 5-1 victory in game one on the […]

In a rematch of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs will clash on Monday in a must-watch Atlantic Division matchup. Just six points separate these two teams with a couple of weeks left in the regular season, so it’s an important one. Ahead of the contest, Panthers head coach Paul […]

Despite the Florida Panthers clinching a playoff spot for the fifth straight season, head coach Paul Maurice was disgusted with his team’s effort in a 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders on home ice. It’s the sixth defeat in seven games for a Cats team that was looking like the class of the Eastern […]

The Florida Panthers got another phenomenal showing from Sergei Bobrovsky on Friday night, leveraging a 26-for-27 save performance en route to a 3-1 win in front of the 18,640 in attendance at Amerant Bank Arena. Cats head coach Paul Maurice admitted afterwards that if it wasn’t for the Russian star, it could have been a […]

The Florida Panthers lost a tight contest against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night in a rematch of last year’s Eastern Conference semifinal — and Cats coach Paul Maurice was not at all happy with how the game finished. Evan Rodrigues scored what the team thought was the shootout winner, but the goal was […]

When the Florida Panthers take to the ice for their first game of their 2023-24 season, they will have exactly two defensemen on the roster who suited up for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final back in June. That is a truly absurd stat, as four of the six Panthers D-men who helped the […]

After coaching the Winnipeg Jets for around nine seasons, Paul Maurice took a six-month break from December 2021 to June 2022 before signing with the Florida Panthers. Maurice implied that the Jets may have already peaked with him as the leading voice in the locker room, and he also alluded to the fact that he […]

Matthew Tkachuk was heroic again for the Florida Panthers on Thursday night, virtually keeping his team’s season alive by tying Game 3 late against the Vegas Golden Knights before teammate Carter Verhaeghe scored in overtime to earn the team its first Stanley Cup Final win in franchise history. But before the Panthers avoided going down […]

The Florida Panthers have to be thrilled that they found their way to the Stanley Cup Final as the eight seed out of the Eastern Conference, but things didn’t get off to a great start for them against the Vegas Golden Knights, as they suffered a 5-2 loss in Game 1 of the series. The […]

The Florida Panthers were not supposed to reach this deep into the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs. After all, they were huge underdogs against the Boston Bruins in the first round. But no one’s taking the Panthers as a joke now. Not only have they knocked out the Bruins, they have also zoomed to a 3-0 […]

The Florida Panthers absolutely destroyed the Tampa Bay Lightning in their return from NHL All-Star Weekend. With the victory, head coach Paul Maurice joins an elite club of NHL head coaches. Maurice has won his 800th career game, becoming the sixth head coach to reach the milestone. The last to reach 800 wins was Lindy […]

The Florida Panthers have decided not to retain interim head coach Andrew Brunette following the team’s best season in franchise history. They have tapped former Winnipeg Jets bench boss Paul Maurice as head coach. The 55-year-old signed a three-year contract worth short of $4 million a year, according to Pierre LeBrun. The two sides were […]

The Florida Panthers are coming off an ugly and early exit from the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and they will be looking to rebound with a new head coach. According to Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic, Paul Maurice is closing in on becoming the next head coach of the franchise. The Florida Panthers are in […]