Preview for Hurricanes-Panthers Game 2
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Carter Verhaeghe signed an eight-year extension after leading Florida with 11 goals in the 2024 postseason and 72 points in the regular season, following up that campaign with his fourth consecutive 20-goal season in 2024-25. Verhaeghe logged eight points (4-4-8) through two rounds in the 2025 postseason.
The Panthers have routed the Hurricanes and Maple Leafs in their last four playoff games, causing opposing fans to boo their own team and leave games early.
The Panthers are averaging 4.78 goals per game on the road this postseason, according to CBS Sports Research. That is the most in Stanley Cup playoffs history (min. 8 games). The three teams that rank below the 2025 Panthers in all-time playoff road goals per game all won the Stanley Cup.
The Florida Panthers have signed Canadian singer Michael Buble — for a good cause. Buble, a five-time Grammy-winning pop icon, has signed on to be part of the team's fundraising efforts for the American Cancer Society.
NFL Media's Tom Blair and Gennaro Filice recently named the most underappreciated player for each of the league's 32 teams. Filice took the reins for the NFC squads, and highlighted longtime starting right tackle Taylor Moton for Carolina.
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He certainly is enjoying life, both on and off the ice. The hope is that another Stanley Cup is on the horizon. Lion and Adalee already got to experience it once, with Gadjovich and wife Allison putting both of them inside the Cup as the Panthers celebrated the victory last June.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers are rolling. The Carolina Hurricanes are reeling. Sam Bennett scored one of his two goals in Florida's three-goal first period, Sergei Bobrovsky made 17 saves and the Panthers beat the Hurricanes 5-0 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference final.
While wide receiver depth is a storyline worth following, Derrick Brown's rehab process is also of interest at Panthers OTAs.
The Panthers flat-out dominated the Hurricanes on Thursday, cruising to a 5-0 win to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-7 series with a spot in a third consecutive Stanley Cup Final at stake.
In fact, Hubbard is so ignored that he's been named the most underrated running back in the entire NFL. That title has come courtesy of ESPN analyst Aaron Schatz, who recently pieced together an all-underrated squad ahead of the 2025 campaign.