{"id":344411,"date":"2026-07-18T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344411\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:04:13","slug":"florida-panthers-weekend-offseason-caterwaul-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344411\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers Weekend Offseason Caterwaul"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Florida Panthers appear three times in Sportsnet\u2019s Most compelling games on 2026-27 NHL schedule<\/a> with writer Emily Sadler flagging this trio of tilts involving the Cats:<\/p>\n

Hurricanes raise the banner, then up the ante \u2014 Panthers @ Hurricanes, September 29<\/p>\n

After hoisting the Stanley Cup in June, the Hurricanes will open the 2026-27 season with one final celebration as they raise their banner to the rafters. And then the real fun begins as they officially launch their campaign to run it back. It\u2019s fitting that it should begin with a game against the Panthers \u2014 few teams have been as sharp a thorn in Carolina\u2019s side in recent years than Florida, after all. With Florida\u2019s roster healthy again and now boasting a new starting goalie and a second Tkachuk, they\u2019ll be eager to make a season-opening statement and measure themselves against the champs while the Hurricanes get their first glimpse of what it\u2019ll take to get back to the top against a team that knows just how tall a task that is.<\/p>\n

Cue the boos: Brady goes back to Ottawa \u2014 Panthers @ Senators, Oct. 21\u00a0<\/p>\n

A lot can change with one transaction, and there may be no better example of that than the league-altering trade between Florida and Ottawa that saw Senators captain Brady Tkachuk reunite with his big brother on the Panthers and deliver a massive blow to the Senators\u2019 contender status in the process. That the deal was prompted by Tkachuk\u2019s trade request out of Canada\u2019s capital guarantees a not-so-warm welcome back to Ottawa. Bring on the drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bobrovsky visits Florida in rival colours \u2014 Maple Leafs @ Panthers, March 6<\/p>\n

Those banners hanging in the rafters at Amerant Bank Arena? They simply aren\u2019t there without Sergei Bobrovsky\u2019s heroics en route to back-to-back championships. Expect the team and fans to welcome him back accordingly, giving the goalie his due despite the threads he\u2019s wearing. That his potential return takes place so late in the season, and tees up three meetings between the clubs within a three-week span, really ups the intrigue \u2014 Bobrovsky practically made a career of foiling the Maple Leafs, and now might just have a chance to do the same against Florida down the stretch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Flyers have agreed to terms with restricted free agent defenseman Jamie Drysdale on a four-year contract with an average annual value of $6.5 million, avoiding a scheduled arbitration hearing. Drysdale produced 32 points (8G\/24A) in 78 games with the Flyers in 2025-26, which was second among the team\u2019s defensemen. He had three assists in three games against the Panthers.<\/p>\n

Out of the fifteen players who filed for arbitration, nine have signed new deals with their clubs.<\/p>\n

Updated NHL arbitration hearing schedule<\/p>\n

Jet Greaves (Columbus) \u2013 July 23<\/p>\n

Jason Robertson (Dallas) \u2013 July 25<\/p>\n

Cole Sillinger (Columbus) \u2013 July 27<\/p>\n

Ronan Seely (Carolina) \u2013 July 29<\/p>\n

Alex Jefferies (New York Islanders) \u2013 July 30<\/p>\n

Akira Schmid (Florida) \u2013 August 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers appear three times in Sportsnet\u2019s Most compelling games on 2026-27 NHL schedule with writer Emily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-344411","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\/344411","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=344411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}