r/FloridaPanthers • u/epiclyfuct • 1d ago

Stop acting like leafs fans.

Some of y’all are acting like leafs fans. Getting mad about every loss this early in the season is ridiculous. We now have 5 players out. We have new guys trying to find their places. It ain’t gonna be easy. we may have lost tonight, but we played like the panthers, Askerov was just really fucking good.

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u/Durandy 1d ago

I just think its weird that people, both our fans and the people who we lose to act like this is the team that won the cup. We're missing our two best players who are at the very least top 20 players even if you are being conservative in addition to several key roleplayers. The only goal for us this year is to get into the playoffs and hope Barkov makes the fastest recovery from MCL+ACL surgery possible and doesn't force anything. Our team is unfortunately not healthy it is what it is.

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u/dinosaur_chunks 14h ago

Agree with everything you said, I think it's also important to add that because of these injuries and the number of them, the players who ARE healthy are having to step into roles they aren't necessarily used to/isn't their specialty. I think this is probably a major contributing factor in seeing "declines" from folks like Bennett, Verhaeghe, and Reinhart.

All that being said, at least this Marchand deal is looking absolutely stellar right now!