Our All Time Top 50 Florida Panthers have been revised to reflect the 2023-24 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023-24 revision of our top 50 Florida Panthers.
As for all of our top 50 players in hockey, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, Florida finally did it! They won their first Stanley Cup championship with a deep and talented squad. As this franchise formed in the 1990s, last season’s accomplishments led to one of the most significant changes ever in our 50 franchise lists.
As always, we present our top five, which saw some significant changes:
1. Roberto Luongo
2. Alexsander Barkov
3. Jonathan Huberdeau
4. Aaron Ekblad
5. John Vanbiesboruck
You can find the entire list here.
Again, as this is still a young franchise, the changes were huge.
It was very tempting to put Barkov at #1, and perhaps it is a mistake not to have done so. Barkov captained the Panthers to their first Stanley Cup, but Luongo was a first ballot Hall of Famer. An average Barkov season will easily place Barkov at #1.
Aaron Ekblad, who was #5, moved up one spot to #4.
Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who was third in Vezina Trophy voting, rocketed to #10 from #19.
We might have made a mistake in not ranking Sam Reinhart last year. That has been corrected, and the sniper who lit the lamp 57 times last year is here at #18.
Defenseman Dmitry Kulikov, who began his second run in Florida last season, climbed to #21 from #26.
2022/2023 Second Team All-Star Matthew Tkachuk rocketed to #25 from #42.
Defenseman Gustav Forsling reached #26 from #35.
Center Carter Verhaeghe went to #28 from #34.
Defenseman Brandon Montour, who is now with Seattle, advanced from #36 to #30.
Center Sam Bennett jumped ten spots to #39.
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Our All-Time Top 50 Florida Panthers have been revised to reflect the 2022/23 Season.
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Florida Panthers.
As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, Florida had an excellent post-season, making it to the Eastern Conference Finals after shocking the Boston Bruins in the opening round. Last year resulted in three new entries, and several elevations.
As always, we present our top five, which had no changes:
1. Roberto Luongo
5. Aaron Ekblad
You can find the entire list here.
Notably, Barkov was unable to surpass Luongo for the #1 spot, and remains at #2. In addition, Ekblad also was not able to move up from his #5 rank.
Goalie, Sergei Bobrovsky, reached #19 from #23.
Forward, Carter Verhaeghe, is the first of two entries, coming in at #34.
Gustav Forling made it to #35 from #45.
The second of four new entries is Brandon Montour, who enters at #36.
Forward, Matthew Tkachuk, makes his first appearance at #42.
The last new entrant is Sam Bennett, who appears it at #49.
Completing the alterations is current San Jose Shark. Anthony Duclair, who was traded during last season, and fell behind newer entrants, but did enough to remain. He is at #50.
We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.
3. Jonathan Huberdeau
Huberdeau, who was a former Third Overall Pick (2011), would have back-to-back 50 Point years (2014-15 & 2015-16), and likely would have had a third had he not been held to only 31 Games the year after. Since that time, his scoring touch has continued to evolve, peaking with 115 Points in 2021-22. A Second Team All-Star in 2020-21 and 2021-22, Huberdeau has averaged over a Point per Game in his last five seasons, as a Panther, but depsite his 2021-22 year (where he also led the NHL in Assists with 85, and finished fifth in Hart voting), the Panthers were frustrated by their inabilty to get past the second round.
Florida made a blockbustr trade, trading Huberdeau to the Cakgary Flames for Matthew Tkachuk. WHether or not Florida won the trade is to be determined, but he left the Sunshine State with 613 Points in 671 Games.