What’s Next For The Florida Panthers? 2024 Off-Season Plan
How will The Florida Panthers attempt at moving forward and making their team more competitive in 2024-25? How can they bounce back and move back into a playoffs spot after not making the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. I examine the past season, team roster and determine their best plan to improve the team. We address NHL Trade Rumours regarding Florida Panthers trade rumours and how they should proceed on that. We analyze their 2024 NHL Prospects and deals they may try to make at the draft. They are in good shape with draft picks in the 2024 NHL Draft. We discuss the 2024 NHL Draft prospects they could select as well. There have been plenty of NHL Trade rumours 2024 regarding this team and I am sure there will be some changes. We address the Florida Panthers rumours and whether they stand a good chance at making some off-season moves. We discuss other NHL free agents 2024 that they could explore signing as well. We will see if any of the Florida Panthers trade talk will come to be or what direction this team will head in. In a market like Florida Panthers there will always be plenty of NHL trade talk when things aren’t going well.
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23 Comments
Let me know your expectations for the Panthers this off-season
Having their core locked up in Barkov, Tkachuk, Forsling and Bob, I'd guess they would try to move on from Knight as he would only cost $750k per year. Ofc it'd suck to not have a young potential stud but if they need to re-sign someone and Bob's still their man then they might entertain that e.g. to keep Reinhart
Thanks for the Panthers "state of the team" review Mike!
Re: Reinhart: when a player scores 20-40 goals/season consistently and then has an outlier season of 57 G, we have to see it as just that…an outlier. All the stars aligned this past season for a helluva season BUT I have to think he's going to be back in the 25-35 G range next season. Soooo…is that worth $11-12 million/season??? I would have to say no!
If Fla invests that type of $$$ in him and he falls back to his expected production, they'll be "wasting" $3-4 million highly valuable dollars/season that they then will not have to sweeten the deal for another important player.
If they could lock him in at $8 million I'd say do it. If he's asking for an exorbitant salary they have to let him go.
Definitely keeping Rhino and Knight
Either way, more stars to come in who want to win.
They need to run it back and go for the cup again while the pots still hot.
Great Video, as usual, Mike. I only think, that, due to Salary Cap, The Florida Panthers atr, likely going to have to move on from many on The Team Take Near Dirt Cheap Contracts
Great analysis
Lundell is number one priority. Hope 5 million is enough for him.
I believe theyāll re-sign Reinhart because he scored 57 this season.
Knight and Ekblad can go. If they can get Reinhardt for 7 to 8 million then bringing back Montour and Tarasenko are possible. Lomberg would be great.
Except for the obvious keeper in Reinhart, we absolutely need to keep Lomberg. Incredible peace of this team. If Zito manages to sign Rhino, Lomberg and Monty (and Lundell) out of this list Iād be happy.
I think they can repeat and i personally think they will im hoping for a panthers Lightning ECF
Donāt see Tarasenko or Montour coming back. Reinhart and Lundell should be a big priority. OEL could come back on a cheaper deal if he wants to return if not theyāll find someone to replace him
Gotta find a trade partner for Ekblad. He's injured far too often and doesn't hold the value of his hefty contract.
There is absolutely no way lomberg is gone. I canāt imagine him leaving Florida. Reinhardt for $7.5mil. Lundell for $4mil. Tarasenko for $2mil. Monty will be gone. Cousins will be gone. Stolarz will be gone. Kulikov might come back.
Im a happy Cats fan. That being said, there is zero chance Montour comes back. Two defensemen will definitely not be back cause we got 2 young guys that will be a part of the D core. We got two guys that did not play in the playoffs in our bottom 6 that will also be part of our rotation. We really only have one bad contract, which is Ekblad. I'm not sure what we can actually do with him, so he'll probably be back. Spencer Knight is the biggest decision Zito will have to make. 4.5 mill is a lot to pay for a backup goalie. Tarasenko might cost too much, even though he supposedly wants to stay.These are my predictions
Defensively….
Forsling, Ekblad
Mikkola, (Maybe OEL)
Balinskas, Bjornfut
Offensively…
Reino, Barkov, ERod
Chucky, Bennett, Swaggy
Eetu, Lundell, Samoskevich
Lomberg, Stenlund, Gadjovich
Goalie…
BOB
??? Maybe Knight if they dont move him
Of course, money talks. However, the Panthers now have a solid franchise. A lot of guys in the NHL want to play here. Beautiful weather, no state income tax and a great place to live. I suspect guys will give a little in salary in tradeoff for these attributes.
Patrick Kane traded to the Florida panthers for the 1st round pick overall
Cale marker to traded to the Florida panthers for 2nd round pick overall
Ryan Hartman to traded to the Florida panthers for 3rd round pick overall
Corey perry to traded to the Florida panthers for 4th round pick overall
absolutely love the channel man i know its less mainstream but would love to see some echl ahl content especially as the relate to the nhl as far as player development