The 2025 Florida Panthers had zero weaknesses. Let’s talk about how they got great performances from everyone in the lineup and where they rank amongst the best cap era teams.
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26 Comments
Total BS take. Dirty team that NHL lets get away with far too many cheap shots.
I’ve been watching hockey for 40 years. The 2025 Panthers are the best hockey team I’ve ever seen. But that is just my opinion.
Jesse! When are you bringing back EA NHL game play? I really miss that. I still rewatch the love where you win the cup. It’s so much fun
Florida knows how to win when it counts
Shutdown defense, overload offense, dependable goaltending.
Jesse, THANK YOU for giving my Panthers their flowers. So much of the media narrative was x team choked, x player was a ghost, always more about what our opponents didnt do over what we did.
So thank you from the bottom of my heart
The question is do you copy them or figure out another way. Bob is the MVP IMO. Toronto went up the middle at Center Ice exposing the Cats multiple times. They stopped the Oilers from doing that. As soon as McDavid touched the puck there were two layers on him in perfect spacing. Cats have Samoskevich close to making the roster.
Marchand seemed indeed as forever a panther. Personality fit perfectly
They were literally built how you build a team in an EA NHL game. Depth, grit, big, tough, fast, skilled, etc.
Yeah, I agree. Playoff panthers overall were flawless.
I would’ve put floridas goalie in the hospital, see how good they are then.
Anton Lundell 🔥
Hey Jesse. In your opinion how would you rank this FL team in terms of playoff performance
Better or worse than the
2020-21 TB Lightning
2010-2015 Chicago Blackhawks
2016 Pittsburgh Penguins
2001 Detroit Red Wings
Everyone loves Bob, as they should, but if there is a hole in the depth, it's between the pipes.
Why is Marchand not in the 1:st line? Not important, I know! But anyway.
I'm a maple leafs fan by the way.
I started playing hockey and watching the NHL in 1965 from my hometown of Boston, I've seen some Great teams, the Panthers are as shut down as it gets, one of, if not the best shut down defensive teams Ever, shutting down the vaunted oilers like it was nothing. In my 60 yrs of hockey it's Impressive and Rare.
congratulations to the four American who the Stanley cup
If Panthers had no flaws, then why did people predict the Oilers winning? Either they underrated how good the Panthers were/are or their breakdowns had bias.
Panthers getting Lundell is just nuts. I was watching the draft knowing his background, he was the guy who made Kakko look like a world beater in Kakko's draft year. And getting to 9th on the draft I was already facepalming people not picking him. And then I was cursing the tv that if Panthers doesn't take him they don't deserve anything anymore, cause been a Panthers fan for a long time and frankly from his first season in the men's leagues Lundell has been dominant, so fan of his as well.
The scary part is that he has been getting better defensively every year and the confidence is now there to score as well. Honestly he'd probably put some silly numbers as 2c with Tkatchuk, but guess I'll take him as 3C all day with Luostarinen, no team has anything equal and you can't get there easily either.
And you predicted they would win 1 playoff game lol idiot
You Canadians have to start bidding for expansion in Canada for NHL NBA WNBA MLB NFL MLS UFL franchises if you want to win
Been a fan since day one. Love these guys.
Panthers are the Big Red Machine. Wave after wave they keep coming at you.
They are the perfect team for the times – A bush league champ for a bush league!
The saying “Age and Treachery will overcome Youth and Skill” is quite the right fit, more like “Rage and Spite will outlast Skill and Good Will” 😅