SUNRISE, Fla.\u202f\u2013\u202fFlorida Panthers President of Hockey Operations & General Manager Bill Zito announced today the club\u2019s opening night roster for the 2025-26 season. The Panthers open the season hosting the Chicago Blackhawks at 5 p.m. ET at Amerant Bank Arena tonight.<\/p>\n
The Panthers 2025-26 opening night roster can be found **HERE**<\/a>.<\/p>\n Forwards (14)<\/p>\n 9 \u2013 Sam Bennett<\/p>\n 10 \u2013 A.J. Greer<\/p>\n 11 \u2013 Mackie Samoskevich<\/p>\n 12 \u2013 Jonah Gadjovich<\/p>\n 13 \u2013 Sam Reinhart<\/p>\n 15 \u2013 Anton Lundell<\/p>\n 17 \u2013 Evan Rodrigues<\/p>\n 18 \u2013 Noah Gregor<\/p>\n 23 \u2013 Carter Verhaeghe<\/p>\n 27 \u2013 Eetu Luostarinen<\/p>\n 63 \u2013 Brad Marchand<\/p>\n 70 \u2013 Jesper Boqvist<\/p>\n 71 \u2013 Luke Kunin<\/p>\n 79 \u2013 Cole Schwindt<\/p>\n Defensemen (7)<\/p>\n 2 \u2013 Jeff Petry<\/p>\n 3 \u2013 Seth Jones<\/p>\n 5 \u2013 Aaron Ekblad<\/p>\n 7 \u2013 Dmitry Kulikov<\/p>\n 26 \u2013 Uvis Balinskis<\/p>\n 42 \u2013 Gustav Forsling<\/p>\n 77 \u2013 Niko Mikkola<\/p>\n Goaltenders (2)<\/p>\n 40 \u2013 Daniil Tarasov<\/p>\n 72 \u2013 Sergei Bobrovsky<\/p>\n Injured Reserve (1)<\/p>\n 16 \u2013 Aleksander Barkov<\/p>\n Injured Non-Roster (2)<\/p>\n 19 \u2013 Matthew Tkachuk<\/p>\n 92 \u2013 Tomas Nosek<\/p>\n For complete broadcast information during the 2025-26 season, visit FloridaPanthers.com\/HowToWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Florida Panthers are back-to-back 2024 & 2025 Stanley Cup Champions! Fans interested in purchasing a Partial Plan for the 2025-26 season can click here<\/a>, visit FloridaPanthers.com\/tickets<\/a>\u202for by calling PUCK line (954.835.PUCK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla.\u202f\u2013\u202fFlorida Panthers President of Hockey Operations & General Manager Bill Zito announced today the club\u2019s opening night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-206994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}