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Hockey season is getting close. Training camp starts today. If your into the game, it is fun to watch the practices at Incredible Ice.
PANTHERS TRAINING CAMP
When: Today through Saturday, 9-11 a.m.
Where: Incredible Ice, 3299 Sportsplex Drive, Coral Springs (just south of Sample Road off the Sawgrass Expressway).
Admission: Free.
First exhibition game: Sept. 18 at Carolina Hurricanes.
First home exhibition game: Sept. 29 vs. Carolina.
First home game:
Oct. 5 vs. Thrashers.
dianepmny
09-14-2005, 06:05 PM
Cool. I'm getting excited about being able to go to Panthers games again.
I moved up to NYC right around the time that the new arena was being built and I've yet to attend a game there. It sucks that I can't take Metrorail there, but I guess I can't complain.
happydad
09-14-2005, 06:23 PM
Cool. I'm getting excited about being able to go to Panthers games again.
I moved up to NYC right around the time that the new arena was being built and I've yet to attend a game there. It sucks that I can't take Metrorail there, but I guess I can't complain.
My wife is not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, but she LOVES going to Panther games. She screams as loud as all the real fanatics.
Donna
09-14-2005, 07:22 PM
I'm not much of a sports fan either. The only football game I watch each year is the Superbowl. I enjoyed the hockey games though. I cheered as loud as anyone.
Mrs. Hein
09-14-2005, 07:32 PM
I LOVE it when a little hockey breaks out during the fights!!
Donna
09-14-2005, 07:35 PM
Ok, I have to admit I cheered just as loud for the fights. I loved Peter Worrell and Paul Laus. Whoo
d-o-b
09-14-2005, 07:50 PM
My wife is not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, but she LOVES going to Panther games. She screams as loud as all the real fanatics.
exactly the same with mine
d-o-b
09-14-2005, 07:51 PM
and my boss is from Sweeden... so I guess I'll be going to many games!!
Tubby
09-14-2005, 08:12 PM
Maybe we should have a NRT gathering at a hockey game. I bet we can still get good seats. Nono
I love a good hockey fight, but Peter Worrell was a sad excuse for a hockey player. They guy was still taking skating lessons as a pro! Pauly on the other hand was an accomplished blue line man, had a rocket for a slap shot, and took out more teeth than a dentist. Unfortunately Paul's hands are a complete wreck now. Hockey is the only sport where the officials are not the only ones who administer the punishment for getting out of line. Ya gotta love the game.
Ok, I have to admit I cheered just as loud for the fights. I loved Peter Worrell and Paul Laus. Whoo
The Swedes and Russians are such smooth skaters. They teach the kids differently than we do here. Here we do skating drills, stick handling drills, shooting drills, etc. The Europeans skate with a puck on the stick all the time. They learn and concentrate on the basics much more than we do with the kids, but always with a puck on the stick.
and my boss is from Sweeden... so I guess I'll be going to many games!!
Donna
09-14-2005, 10:12 PM
I liked to watch Peter fight and "check" guys into the boards. He was exciting. Paul's hands had to be a mess. After fights when he was in the penalty box, he had his hands in buckets of ice. Ouch!
dianepmny
09-14-2005, 11:09 PM
Well, I expect to be going to plenty of football, hockey, and baseball games when we move down. I can't wait to show my husband what South Florida tailgating is like. Do you know that they can't do that up here at Shea?
Donna, I loved Paul Laus for that very reason!!
Tubby
09-15-2005, 07:00 AM
You won't be doing it at a hockey game either.
Well, I expect to be going to plenty of football, hockey, and baseball games when we move down. I can't wait to show my husband what South Florida tailgating is like. Do you know that they can't do that up here at Shea?
Donna, I loved Paul Laus for that very reason!!
Florida's Jacques Martin Happy to Be Back Behind Bench
Sep 15, 3:01 AM (ET)
By TIM REYNOLDS
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Since joining the Florida Panthers, Jacques Martin has worked in a variety of capacities.
He scouted minor leaguers, evaluated junior players and those in European leagues, and he helped revamp a roster that lacked big-game experience. Now, he's getting the chance to do what he likes best: coach.
With one shrill blast of his whistle Wednesday morning, Martin opened his first training camp with the Panthers, who've undergone a massive roster shake-up since their last pre-lockout game 17 months ago.
"What I like most so far is the enthusiasm and the attitude around the team," Martin said. "I think some of the new players, they bring a lot of energy and they bring happiness. It's a good environment. It's a good feeling. And that's important. That's probably the base."
The training-camp roster is primarily made up of players who weren't with Florida during the 2003-04 season, the NHL's last before a lockout wiped away what would have been the preceding year. So the Panthers plan on spending much of the next three weeks figuring out how to make all the new pieces click.
The task won't be easy, but Wednesday was more than a symbolic first step.
"It's really fun to be back out playing again," said left wing Gary Roberts, a veteran now in his first year with Florida. "It's been a long layoff for everybody. Old or young, I think it's real exciting for everybody to get back and get back in that routine of being a hockey player."
Martin, the 1999 NHL coach of the year, guided Ottawa to three division titles in 8½ seasons and went 341-255-96 in regular-season games with the Senators. He was hired shortly after the 2003-04 regular season ended with Florida again on the outside of the league's playoff picture. The Panthers haven't won a postseason game since 1997.
So, instead of loading up on more young talent, Florida went for established leaders - including a smattering with their names already etched on the Stanley Cup.
"We're all still getting our feet wet with this team," said center Joe Nieuwendyk, a three-time Cup winner and one of the many Florida newcomers. "But our goals are high, no doubt about it."
Acquiring centers such as Nieuwendyk, Jozef Stumpel and Chris Gratton, defenseman Sean Hill and left wings Roberts and Martin Gelinas is apparently paying quick dividends, at least according to the handful of returnees from Florida's last club.
"It's the first day, but already, you start feeling it a little bit on the ice, a little bit in the workout room upstairs," said goaltender Roberto Luongo, who had the highest save percentage in the NHL among goalies with more than 50 starts in the 2003-04 season. "Guys have been there, done that and they can lead the way."
Florida's camp schedule is an ambitious one. Training camps leaguewide are now considerably shorter than what was once the norm, and the Panthers play their opening preseason game in Carolina on Sunday.
There's plenty of work to do, but certainly no one was complaining about being back in the rink.
"It's a day we've waited for a long time, all of us," Panthers general manager Mike Keenan said. "It's nice to get started again."
dianepmny
09-15-2005, 05:30 PM
You won't be doing it at a hockey game either.
I was talking about tailgating at Joe Robbie Stadium.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Nathan Horton scored the game-winning goal in a shootout as the Florida Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 Sunday.
Horton slipped the puck beneath Martin Gerber's pads to give the Panthers the win in their first preseason game.
Florida forced the game into a shootout after tying the game on a goal by Rostislav Olesz three minutes into the third period. Carolina forward Kevyn Adams missed a chance to win the game in overtime with about one minute left when his shot went off the crossbar.
Jamie McLennan started in goal for Florida and stopped 11 of 12 shots.
Trailing 2-0, the Hurricanes got four straight goals in the second period by Andrew Hutchinson, Niclas Wallin, Eric Staal and Mike Zigomanis.
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