SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013\u202fThe Florida Panthers\u00a0announced\u00a0the recipients of the third annual Panthers Team Awards in a pregame ceremony this evening ahead of their matchup against the New York Rangers at\u00a0Amerant\u00a0Bank Arena.\u00a0Forwards\u00a0Luke Kunin\u00a0and\u00a0Brad Marchand\u00a0and\u00a0goaltender\u00a0Sergei Bobrovsky\u00a0each\u00a0took home\u00a0an honor.<\/p>\n
Goaltender\u00a0Sergei Bobrovsky\u00a0was voted by Panthers fans as the recipient of the Fan Choice Award.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bobrovsky, 37, notched his 200th\u00a0regular season win with Florida on March 24 vs. the Seattle Kraken and became the 18th\u00a0NHL goalie, and first Russian-born netminder, to backstop in 800 career games on March 17 vs. the Vancouver Canucks. The two-time Stanley Cup Champion ranks second in franchise history in games played (349) and wins (201). His four shutouts in 2025-26\u00a0rank tied\u00a0for third-most among NHL goaltenders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forward\u00a0Luke Kunin\u00a0was voted by his teammates as the recipient of the Unsung Hero Award.\u00a0Panthers players\u00a0cast their\u00a0vote\u00a0for the teammate whose successes and self-sacrifices for the good of the team were not always noticed or translated to the stat sheet but made an impact on the group.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kunin recorded six points (2-4-6) over\u00a060\u00a0games in his first season with Florida. The nine-year NHL veteran led Panther forwards in blocked shots per 60 (4.76) and ranks second among forwards in blocked shots (45), face-off percentage (50.2%)\u00a0and hits per 60 (12.27) in games played through April 12 (min. 20 games played). The native of Chesterfield, Missouri, signed with the Cats as a free agent on Aug. 22, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forward\u00a0Brad Marchand\u00a0earned the Three Stars Award, handed to the player\u00a0with\u00a0the most points as Star of the Game throughout Panthers home games in 2025-26.\u00a0Players\u00a0received points for each star they earned this season \u2013 three points for\u00a0first\u00a0star, two points for\u00a0second\u00a0star and one point for\u00a0third\u00a0star. Marchand leads the Cats with 23 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marchand,\u00a037, was named a third star two times, a second star six times and a first star three times.\u00a0In 29 home games played this season, he\u00a0tallied\u00a033 points (16-17-33),\u00a0leading\u00a0the team\u00a0in\u00a0points per game at home (1.14).\u00a0The\u00a0Halifax, Nova Scotia native\u00a0recorded four power-play goals and 12 power-play points (4-8-12) at home this season, ranking tied for second\u00a0on Florida\u00a0in each category, respectively,\u00a0in games played through\u00a0April\u00a012.\u00a0\u00a0Marchand became the first\u00a0player in franchise history\u00a0to reach 1,000-career NHL points as a member of the\u00a0Florida Panthers\u00a0on Nov.\u00a013 vs. Washington.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more information on our previous Panthers Team Awards winners, visit https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/panthers\/team\/awards<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Join the Florida Panthers Territory Membership Waiting List. Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to learn more. Single game tickets are on sale now for the 2025-26 season. Please visit\u00a0SeatGeek.com<\/a>\u202for\u00a0FloridaPanthers.com\/tickets<\/a>\u202fto purchase tickets today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013\u202fThe Florida Panthers\u00a0announced\u00a0the recipients of the third annual Panthers Team Awards in a pregame ceremony this evening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-230456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}