Is This The Best Built NHL Team…Ever?
Has any team since Gretzky’s Oilers weaponized swagger the way the Florida Panthers just did? In barely three seasons, a franchise once hidden behind sunrise beaches and football headlines has morphed into the NHL’s nightmare matchup—shattering records, steam-rolling higher-seeded rivals, and doing it with a grin that infuriates everyone outside Broward County.
Their 2025 repeat wasn’t a lucky bounce; it was the logical climax of fearless front-office moves, a brash dressing-room culture, and numbers so gaudy they feel like typos. Yet the scarier question lingers: with a third straight Cup suddenly plausible, are we already staring at the league’s next dynasty?
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The whole state is behind them. Tampa doesnt count since they are their own thing and not a real Florida East Coast City
why are people talking as if tampa literally didnt just do this already or that the penguins went back to back 8/9 years ago? 3/10 cups have been back to back wins. people are acting like this hasnt happened since the 80s, hahaha panthers are even the first to do it in their state.
Miami owns hockey 🥅 😈
They're a great team, but I'm not ready to put them on the same shelf with great dynasty teams of the past yet.
short answer, yes
No.
Go Leafs!…Go!!! 😂
Just shut up about dynasties. They won 2. Nice, but 2, a dynasty does not make. Lets see how the League figures them out. That's why 3 is so hard. First one yer not on anyone's radar. Maybe some luck. The second one, could be more luck, but now, everyone is trying to crack your code. Just ask Johnathan Quick about how the league learned to shoot high after the Kings won 2 in three, and he won the MVP. Nobody could crack his code, until they did. He was lights out, until he wasn't. Kings were on no ones radar, until they were.The Panthers are likely to get figured out and they are not likely to 3-peat. Odds and realities. If they do, good fer them, until then, big deal.
The Panthers signed everyone until 2030.
1956-1960 says there was better teams
Would say swagger but grit
Add “modern” to the title and the answer might be yes.
When half your team is at the 4 nations, thats a sign it might be good 😂.
author of THE DEATH TAX sez: No, the early 80s Isles were. THE most disciplined, machinelike, hardworking, relentless, solid team I've ever seen, built largely w/ prudent drafting and perhaps hockey's greatest coach in Arbour.
The fact that every single line contributes should show you how the Panthers are so dominant in a TEAM sport. For all McDavids praise. He is only one person. One elite player cannot defeat another team. Not just any team. The defending Stanley Cup Champions. And the fact that all the sports media pundits and analysts doubted the Panthers is so disrespectful lol. They were all over McDavids Nutsack.
Bill Zito deserves a huge credit, he is the brains of this whole organization
Best team in the salary cap era
Ekblad signed for 8 years, not 5. Marchand is signed as well. In total, there are 10 players signed til at least 2030.
It's an interesting question because of you look at some of those dynasty teams like those Montreal, Islanders and Oilers team they were loaded. But then again the league at the time was so top heavy because of teams being able to keep players with no free agency, no cap made it so. They at least deserve a nod for being one of the best salary cap era teams
No
best team ever? hard to say the 2011 Blackhawks were a powerhouse and they didn't need an elite tier goalie to win, team was so good at defending that they carried a barely average Niemi to a stanley cup. 1976 Habs have been considered the best assembled team for the longest time. Just look at their roster, if you extrapolate into today's hockey Lafleur, Shutt, Mahovlich, Cournoyer, Lemaire, Savard, Lapointe, Robinson, Dryden, that's 9 players who would be earning 10m$ each at the very least, you have a 90m$ cap and you still need to figure out how to plug in the roster Bob Gainey who would earn something like 8-9m$, Risebrough, Tremblay and Jarvis who would be 4-5m$ players. There's absolutely no way an NHL team could fit that roster into the salary cap era.
0:08 the city of Sunrise has no beach
Panthers got Daniil Tarsov who is from the same city as Bob. Russian goalies are a big deal (Lightning, Panthers). The other teams have the fire power, but their goalies let shots in. Bob will teach Daniil everything and he will probably play more games during the regular season so Bob can rest for the playoffs.
Love my Panthers! 30 plus years in the making. Go Cats!
This MF just say New Jersey traded for Kaprizov??
Go Cat's Go
There is Teams and then there is Panthers. Hi from FINLAND 🇫🇮
Rats….
Proved even by Erkka Westerlund
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leafs are hooped..