Post-Game Talk: Panthers lose 3-2 in OT, ALWGAP

[WaitingForThatCab]

The last time Florida played these guys:




Obviously, they're still a little miffed about that:




In other news, Brandon Montour and Aaron Ekblad have returned to practice, and there is speculation that they could be on the ice by Thanksgiving. In other, less good news, Sam Bennett probably isn't playing tonight:





Should be fun!

If someone knows what the lines are going to look like tonight, send 'em to me and I'll toss them in here.

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[Gentle Man]

 

[FlaPanthers11]

Since the start of the 2022-23 NHL season, Boston has won 70 of 86 games (81.4%) against all non-Panthers teams and 5 of 11 games (45.4%) against the Florida Panthers.

 

[Necrobutcher]

Brandon Montour and Aaron Ekblad have returned to practice, and there is speculation that they could be on the ice by Thanksgiving.

Maybe i'm a finnish homer but i'd really like to see Kinnunen get a shot before they come back. Not gonna happen after they do without a couple of injuries. He's over PPG in Charlotte and is yet to make his NHL debut.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Maybe i'm a finnish homer but i'd really like to see Kinnunen get a shot before they come back. Not gonna happen after they do without a couple of injuries. He's over PPG in Charlotte and is yet to make his NHL debut.

Lucas Carlsson has played competently in the NHL (with this very team) in the past, and had 20g/34a in 61 games with Charlotte last season. Dude can't even get a sniff over the corpse of Dimitri Kulikov

 

[Gentle Man]

Milan Lucic is on LTIR after seeing Ryan Reaves on their schedule this week.

 

[FinlandPanther]

Milan Lucic is on LTIR after seeing Ryan Reaves on their schedule this week.

Great choice by Lucic. You know for certain that they both would’ve met each other on the ice during their 5 minutes of ice time during the game.

 

[Gentle Man]

Sam Bennett was officially removed from IR this morning

Entered the obituary.

 

[KW]

It’s weird that Montgomery felt he had to say basically that it’s a “payback” game. Why say that? If the Bruins lose, it’s way more of a fiasco than if they win is an uplifter.

The only reason I can think of is that he thinks they don’t match up well against the Panthers even with Ek and Monty out and is worried. In any case, Monty just gave the Panthers a “nothing to lose” game.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

 

[FinlandPanther]

Oh yes daddies.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

Bad news for ppl who are expecting Zito to let Monty walk into free agency and re-sign Ekblad to $10milx8 contract.

 

[FlaPanthers11]

Could have missed this in other threads but is there a consensus guess on the price around here? Given Zito’s trend to sign shorter term deals (other than Barkov and Tkachuk) and their ages I’d guess 5 years for each? And the shorter term would cause those to have higher cap hits.

Maybe 5x9 for Montour and 5x6 for Forsling?

Obviously would like to see lower but I’m comfortable up to those numbers on shorter term deals personally especially with rising cap

 

[Chaos2k7]

Bad news for ppl who are expecting Zito to let Monty walk into free agency and re-sign Ekblad to $10milx8 contract.

Who exactly are those people?

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

Maybe 5x9 for Montour and 5x6 for Forsling?

2x their current salary + 0.5-1mil.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

2x their current salary + 0.5-1mil.

So by that, Montour at 7-8 mil; Forsling at 5.5-6.5

I'm fine with Forsling getting that for 5 years. Monty I would like a bit lower for 3-4 years given his age.

I wouldn't give either 7-8 years

 

[Gentle Man]

Reinhart in the corner screaming

Ayo wtf. I'm hard carrying this team

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

Reinhart in the corner screaming

Ayo wtf. I'm hard carrying this team

Zito needs to get these guys in a room and encourage them to take $3mil each.

And by encourage I mean blackmail/threaten with blackmail/threaten with hired goons.

 

[TheImpatientPanther]

Forsling - 6 yrs X $6.25 mil
Montour - 5 yrs X $7 mil

 

[ANFTL17]

Reinhart in the corner screaming

Ayo wtf. I'm hard carrying this team

I’m might be pulling this out of thin air, but didn’t Reinhart say he wanted to wait until the offseason to discuss an extension?

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

After how outrageously unlucky Reinhart was last season, I can't say I blame him.

 

[Gentle Man]

Only quote I see in regards to an extension

Sign him now before he scores 70 goals

 

[vendetta]

See if Barkov can have any impact on the offense whatsoever. 3 primary points in 6 Games. One was a pass to the point from the halfwall that anyone on this board could have made. Just a complete no show early in the season.

 

[pantherbot]

Here's a thought, if we want any chance to keep Reinhart, would need the Forsling and Monty AAVs to be at most $6M each. What if we do 8x$6M for both, knowing those last years are gonna be whatever

 

[TheImpatientPanther]

@Gizmo Tkachuk

Randy had a big bowl of jello here or what?