Florida Panthers
2026-27: 2-0-2 · 6 pts · 4th in the NHL · 1st in the Atlantic · L10 2-0-2 · W1
2025-26: 40-38-4 · 84 pts · 25th in the NHL · 7th in the Atlantic
vs Minnesota · 6:00 PM ETPrices after the game-day snapshotExpected in goal: Jacob Markstrom 69%Game preview →Florida are 2-0-2 after 4 games of 2026-27, 1st in the Atlantic. Last season they finished 25th in the league with 84 points.
1st in the Atlantic after 4 games
League rank after every game of 2026-27, drawn against last season's month-end ranks. With fewer than ten games played, the order still moves a lot from night to night.
League rank through the season
See all: League rank through the season →2026-27 · 4th in the league · 2-0-2 · 6 pts
StandingsAhead of their goal difference
Three views derived from the 2026-27 results. Small sample: every split here rests on fewer than ten games.
Expected vs actual points
See all: Expected vs actual points →Points the goal difference is worth = GF^1.8 ÷ (GF^1.8 + GA^1.8) × 2 × GP × 1.115, the league's points a game, from 8 goals for and 8 against in 4 games. Last season: 84 points against 83.6. Expected points from shot quality (xG) are in the Shots section.
MethodClose games
Splits
Three home, three away next
Next six
See all: Next six →Minnesota Wild104 pts · 7th12 Oct@
Buffalo Sabres109 pts · 4th13 Oct@
Columbus Blue Jackets92 pts · 17th15 Octvs
Vancouver Canucks58 pts · 32nd17 Octvs
Seattle Kraken79 pts · 27th21 Oct@
Ottawa Senators99 pts · 9thDifficulty is how often the opponent would beat an average team, from shot quality (our season model, which leans on last season early on). Red is the top quarter of the league, green the bottom quarter. Hover a bar for the numbers.
Next six: these opponents would beat an average team 49.6% of the time. 3 of the six made the 2025-26 playoffs.
Full schedule
Lars Eller leads with 3 points in 4 games
2026-27 scoring, with last season's line for every player on the roster. Status tags come from the league-wide injury report.
Moves since July
See all: Moves since July →2026-27 roster
See all: 2026-27 roster →Projected cap hit $104.87M against a $104M ceiling
Cap hit against the ceiling
Biggest cap hits
See all: Biggest cap hits →Out of contract in summer 2027
See all: Out of contract in summer 2027 →As of 1 Oct 2026. Cap hit is the average annual charge against the cap, not a yearly salary. The team figure is a projection that can include players off the roster; space below zero is before long-term injured reserve and other relief, which this data does not include.
Who dressed at Los Angeles on 6 Oct
Every player who dressed, ordered by ice time. The league publishes who played, not the line combinations, so this is depth by minutes rather than lines.
The same 20 players who dressed on 4 Oct.
Forwards · by ice time
Defence · by ice time
Goalies · by ice time
Did not dress
On the roster but not in the lineup: injured players carry the report’s status, the rest were scratched or are away from the team.
A 27th power play and a 16th penalty kill
Small sample after 4 games. Last season: power play 19.5%, penalty kill 81.0%.
2026-27
Dashed line: league average. Scale 0–100%.
Florida attempt more from the slot than anywhere else
Every Florida attempt in 2026-27, attacking right (4 games). Crease: within 8 ft of the goal. Slot: inside the faceoff dots below the circles. Point: the top 20 ft of the zone.
Expected goals
See all: Expected goals →2026-27 · 4 games with located shots. Ranks are league-wide (1st = best). Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
2025-26 · 82 games with located shots. Ranks are league-wide (1st = best).
Expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring from that spot, shot type and strength (our model, trained on 2025-26). Above zero on finishing or goaltending means better than the chances.
Team xG tableBy zone
258 att · 105 on goal · 8 G
By shot type
Florida Panthers rank 28th for 22+ mph bursts and 11th for shot-attempt differential
How fast Florida Panthers skated, how hard they shot and where the puck spent its time, ranked against the other 31 teams.
Fastest skaters
- 22.07Gustav Forsling@
CAR29 Sep · OT 01:05 - 21.98Seth Jones@CAR29 Sep · 2nd 03:25
- 21.83Sandis Vilmanis@
ANA4 Oct · 1st 06:07 - 21.17Brady Tkachuk@
SJS1 Oct · 2nd 05:50 - 21.09Eetu Luostarinen@ANA4 Oct · 3rd 04:22
- 20.95Garnet Hathaway@ANA4 Oct · 2nd 08:04
- 20.92Sam Bennett@ANA4 Oct · 2nd 01:50
- 20.85Anton Lundell@SJS1 Oct · 2nd 14:47
Each Florida Panthers skater's fastest burst, the top eight, in mph.
Hardest shots
- 88.71Seth Jones@SJS1 Oct · 2nd 03:53
- 88.61Gustav Forsling@CAR29 Sep · OT 04:55
- 84.80Radko Gudas@SJS1 Oct · 3rd 04:01
- 82.16Brady Tkachuk@SJS1 Oct · 2nd 03:12
- 81.55Aaron Ekblad@SJS1 Oct · 2nd 16:47
- 78.79Anton Lundell@SJS1 Oct · 2nd 19:00
- 78.22Sandis Vilmanis@ANA4 Oct · 1st 06:29
- 77.65Sam Bennett@ANA4 Oct · 3rd 13:29
Each Florida Panthers skater's hardest shot, the top eight, in mph.
Territory
Ranks are league-wide, 1st = best.
Jacob Markstrom has started 3 of 4
Starts, save percentage and goals against for every goalie who has played for the club this season, with last season for context.
2026-27
2025-26
Five on the injury list
Injury report
See all: Injury report →Updated 7 Oct, 7:46 AM ET
InjuriesTransactions
See all: Transactions →Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve. Called up D Alexander Petrovic from Charlotte (AHL).
Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve.
Placed RW/C Cole Schwindt, RD Alexander Petrovic, LD Donovan Sebrango, LW Kai Schwindt, LW Cole Reinhardt, RW Sam Lafferty and C/LW John Beecher on waivers. Agreed to terms with RW Nathan Bastian on a 1-year, two-way contract.
Waived LW Angus Crookshank, Ds Tobias Bjornfot and Casey Fitzgerald.
Agreed to terms with C/LW Samu Salminen on a 2-year, $1.96M contract.
Signed G Akira Schmid to a two-year contract.
Signed D Mikulas Hovorka to a one-year contract.
2026 draft class
See all: 2026 draft class →Priced at 52% to make the playoffs
Every season-long market the venues list for the Florida Panthers, as the venue-average implied chance with each venue's price to buy Yes.
Make the playoffs: market vs last season
A 86-point pace (last season's points % over 84 games) maps to about 30%; the market sits 22 points higher.
Season points: the market's ladder
6 points from 4 games so far. A points pace is shown from game 10.
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Polymarket
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Tampa Bay is the most-played rivalry: 191 meetings
Florida against every Atlantic rival, from each pairing's first meeting in the index, including 2026-27.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Boston Bruins
Toronto Maple Leafs
Montréal Canadiens
Detroit Red Wings10 playoff trips and 2 Stanley Cups in 30 seasons
Playoff depth season by season since 1996-97, the franchise scoring leaders since 1990-91 and its earliest draft picks since 1980. Hover a square for the season.
The last 30 seasons
Points leaders since 1990-91
Regular season, with this franchise only.
Retired numbers
Numbers retired by the franchise, as of October 2026. Maintained by hand, outside the stats feed.
Top picks since 1980
The 6 highest first-round picks of 31 since 1980.
Updated after every final · through 6 Oct