SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Florida\u00a0Panthers President of Hockey Operations and General Manager\u00a0Bill Zito\u00a0announced today that the club has agreed to terms with defenseman\u00a0Tobias Bjornfot on a one-year, two-way contract for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n
Bjornfot, 25, skated in 19 games with Florida in 2025-26, recording four points (2-2-4). He produced his first career multi-goal NHL game on Jan. 25 at Chicago.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot, 200-pound defenseman has skated in 154 career NHL games between Florida (2023-24 to 2025-26), the Vegas Golden Knights (2023-24) and Los Angeles Kings (2019-20 to 2023-24), posting 19 points (3-16-19). He also played in 192 career American Hockey League (AHL) games between the Ontario Reign (2019-20 to 2020-21, 2022-23), Henderson Silver Knight (2023-24) and the Charlotte Checkers (2024-25 to 2025-26), logging 61 points (18-43-61). He helped Charlotte reach the Calder Cup Final in 2024-25 producing seven points (2-5-7) in 14 postseason games.<\/p>\n
Prior to his North American career, the Upplands Vasby, Sweden, native skated in two seasons (2018-19, 2020-21) with Djugardens IF of the Swedish Hockey League. On the international stage, Bjornfot won a gold medal with Sweden at the 2019 IIHF U18 World Junior Championship and earned bronze medals at the 2018 U18 WJC and at the 2020 U20 World Junior Championship.<\/p>\n
Bjornfot was originally selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the first round (22nd overall) of the 2019 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
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