Sounds good hawker
Good informative post. Why would florida need two NHL teams? They already have one team that won the Stanley Cup!
You wanted some inside info on the panthers... you got it:
2004-05 Florida Panthers Players
No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Shoots Place of Birth DOB 2003-04 Club(s)
4 Jay Bouwmeester D 6'4" 218 L Edmonton, AB 9/27/1983 FLA, San Antonio (AHL)
5 Branislav Mezei D 6'5" 235 L Nitra, Slovakia 10/8/1980 FLA
9 Stephen Weiss C 5'11" 191 L Toronto, ON 4/3/1983 FLA
12 Olli Jokinen C 6'3" 215 L Kuopio, Finland 12/5/1978 FLA
13 Juraj Kolnik RW 5'10" 182 R Nitra, Slovakia 11/13/1980 San Antonio (AHL), FLA
14 Niklas Hagman LW 6'0" 205 L Espoo, Finland 12/5/1979 FLA
15 Ty Jones RW 6'03 218 R Richland, Wa. 3/22/1979 Anchorage (WCHL), FLA
16 Nathan Horton C 6'2" 198 R Welland, ON 5/29/1985 FLA
22 Kristian Huselius LW 6'1" 190 L Osterhaninge, Sweden 11/10/1978 FLA
24 Darcy Hordichuk LW 6'1" 215 L Kamsack, SK. 8/10/1980 FLA
26 Mike Van Ryn D 6'1" 202 R London, ON 5/14/1979 FLA
27 Christian Berglund LW 5'11" 195 L Orebro, Sweden 3/12/1980 NJ, Albany (AHL), FLA
34 Mathieu Biron D 6'6" 229 R Lac St. Charles, QC 4/29/1980 FLA
38 Eric Beaudoin LW 6'5" 220 L Ottawa, ON 5/3/1980 San Antonio (AHL), FLA
40 Vaclav Nedorost C 6'1" 190 L Budejovice, Czech Republic 3/16/1982 San Antonio (AHL),FLA
Eric Cairns D 6'6" 230 L Oakville, ON 6/27/1974 NY Islanders
Sean Hill D 6'0" 205 R Duluth, Minn. 2/14/1970 Carolina
Serge Payer C 6'0" 191 L Rockland, ON 5/7/1979 Ottawa, Binghampton (AHL)
Joel Kwiatkowski D 6'01" 201 L Saskatoon, SK 3/22/1977 Washington
Alexander Karpovtsev D 6'3" 221 R Moscow, Russia 4/7/1970 Chicago
Goaltenders
No. Name Ht. Wt. C Place of Birth DOB 2003-04 Club(s)
1 Roberto Luongo 6'3" 205 L Montreal, Quebec 4/4/1979 FLA
Jamie McLennan 6'0" 195 L Edmonton, Alberta 6/30/1971 NYR, CAL