Nate Schmidt
3 Takeaways From The Florida Panthers & Toronto Maple Leafs Game 5 | 05/14/2025
The mission was to go into Toronto and get the win to take a 3-2 series lead. The Panthers accomplished this mission well on Wednesday night. The Cats put up a statement win after four extremely tight games, taking Game 5 in a 6-1 victory. They were a minute and six seconds away from a […]
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Florida Panthers vs. Toronto Maple Leafs 2025 Series Preview
Florida fans saw the video making the rounds online ahead of the Leafs’ Game 4 with an all too familiar chant: “We want Florida.” Well, you wanted Florida, you got Florida. The Cats dispatched the Lightning in five games, with all games ending in regulation, while the Senators took the Leafs to a Game 6, […]
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Florida Panthers vs. Tampa Bay Lightning 2025 Series Recap
Florida is who some feared they are, a sleeping playoff monster awaiting the playoffs to defend their Championship Title. The majority of analysts picked the Lightning to win the series in as few as five games or as many as seven, and the Cats proved them all wrong once again. The Panthers broke open games […]
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NHL Playoffs: Tampa Bay Lightning Offense Struggles in Game 2 Loss
Coming off an embarrassing loss in Game One, the Tampa Bay Lightning knew they needed to be a lot better in Game Two to avoid going down 0-2 in their first-round series against the Florida Panthers. They were in most facets of the game, but a weak goal allowed by goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy and a […]
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3 Takeaways from the Florida Panthers & Tampa Bay Lightning Game 2 | 04/24/2025
Tempers flared and boiled over in Game 2 at Amalie Arena. The Panthers took a strong 2-0 series lead on the back of stellar defense that suffocated the Lightning’s offense. Florida fans, while happy with the win, are far more concerned with the status of Barkov, who took a dirty hit from Hagel in the […]
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3 Takeaways From The Florida Panthers & Tampa Bay Lightning Game 1 | 04/22/2025
There were plenty of questions and doubts surrounding the Florida Panthers coming into Game 1 of the playoffs after ending their season with a rough couple of weeks. That season-ending needs to be taken with a grain of salt, given how many players the Cats were resting on any given night, especially the final game […]
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3 Takeaways From The Florida Panthers & Detroit Red Wings Game 04/10/2025
Who’s missing players? It certainly didn’t look like the Panthers were in their match against Detroit on Thursday night. After struggling offensively for the last month or so, the Cats finally scored more than three goals in a game, something they haven’t done since their 4-0 shutout against Buffalo in early March. The defense stepped […]
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3 Takeaways From The Florida Panthers & Montreal Canadiens | 04/01/2025
Season series swept. The Cats fell 2-3 in overtime to the Montreal Canadiens and failed to win a single game against them this season. It looked like they had the win sewn up, but a last-second goal by Montreal tied the game to send it into OT, where Suzuki ended it with a wraparound goal. […]
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3 Takeaways From The Florida Panthers & Buffalo Sabers Game 03/08/2025
At the start of March, the Panthers said that they were in playoff mode now, and they’ve certainly looked like it over their last few games. Florida is dominating teams at the moment, with three out of their last five games being against teams in playoff position. Two new Cats made their debut as Vitek […]
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3 Takeaways from the Florida Panthers & San Jose Sharks | 01/25/2025
The first half of Florida’s second back-to-back this week went as expected after the first half of the first period. The Panthers were clearly a cut above the rebuilding young Sharks team as they took a decisive victory that had 12 of their 18 players make it onto the scoresheet. Aaron Ekblad made his return […]
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