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Caged Great · 09-23-2009, 05:25 PM

The first week of the pre-season has come and gone with the Panthers playing in four contests sporting a 2-1-0-1 record.

The pre-season started off with a bang with back to back shut-outs, followed by a 3-2 shootout loss to Atlanta and a 5-2 loss to Tampa.

The player of the week goes to goaltender Vesa Toskala.

Posting back to back shutouts in his first two games, Vesa has a 2-0-1 record this week with a tiny 0.649 GAA, and .947 save percentage.

Runners up for Player of the week were Center Rod Brind'amour and Defenseman Brian Rafalski. Brind'Amour scored twice and has two assists, but has been a force in the faceoff circle winning 61% of his 92 draws. Rafalski has five assists in the four games and has been averaging 24 minutes a night.

The powerplay thus far has been okay, scoring 4 times in 23 attempts, and the PK has been good allowing only 3 goals in 23 attempts.

Panthers games this week include a home and home with Carolina returning to the Office Depot center to face off against the Thrashers.

POW Week 1 Winner - Vesa Toskala
POW Week 2 Winner - Rod Brind'Amour
POW Week 3 Winner - Vesa Toskala
POW Week 4 Winner - Roman Polak

Molson Cup Winner September - Jeff Halpern

I wanna be like Miikka · 09-23-2009, 05:26 PM

Ooops Wrong thread!

Ummmm, congrats to the Panthers POW lol.

Goffie · 09-23-2009, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by I wanna be like Miikka

Ducks are looking to ship out a high end prospect for some CPHL help. Right now the one available is Colin Wilson. Backlund might also be on his way out depending on what sort of offers we see coming in.

PM me if you are rebuilding and want a core prospect to build around (I know Backlund isn't one but Wilson definitely is!)

Way to ruin the Panthers thread Ravi!

Caged Great · 09-23-2009, 05:28 PM

Nice....

I wanna be like Miikka · 09-23-2009, 05:28 PM

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Way to ruin the Panthers thread Ravi!

Way to quote me within 1 minute Goffie! I'll never forget this!

Sylvanfan · 09-23-2009, 10:08 PM

Stop eating everyones steak and ruining their lives already Ravi.

Gosh.

Caged Great · 09-28-2009, 09:58 PM

The second week of the preseason has passed for the Panthers. This week the Panthers went 2-1 to bring their record up to 4-2-0-1.

The week started out with consecutive wins against Carolina in their home and home series, before falling in a squeaker to Atlanta 2-1.

The Player of the Week for this week is Captain Rod Brind'Amour. He posted a goal and three assists and was a +4 in the three games.

The runners up for POW this week are Brad Richards and Jeff Halpern. Both recorded 2 goals and an assist and were a +3.

Newest acquisitions Mike Van Ryn and Mike Knuble played well this week with a pair of assists between them.

There is only one Preseason tilt left, aganst Washington, before opening the season at home against the Dallas Stars and Boston Bruins.

Caged Great · 10-02-2009, 07:55 AM

The Panthers Preseason concluded yesterday with a 2-1 Shootout loss to Washington.

The team leaders in the preseason are

Goals - Gaborik, Halpern (4)
Assists - Rafalski (8)
Points - Rafalski, Brind'Amour (8)
+/- - Rafalski (+6)
PIM - Morrisonn (19)
Shots - Gaborik (28)
Hits - Morrisonn (14)
Blocked Shots - Phillips (10)
Faceoffs - Richards (88/135 65.2%) Best in CPHL
Minutes - Rafalski (195)

Goalie Stats

Toskala - 4-1-2, 2 SO, 90 Saves, 8 Goals against, 1.118 GAA, 0.918 SV%
Morrison - 0-1-0, 0 SO, 31 Saves, 5 Goals against, 5 GAA, 0.861 SV%

Molson 3 Star winner for the Month of September - Jeff Halpern

Caged Great · 10-07-2009, 03:05 PM

The third week has come and gone. The preseason concluded, and the first two games of the season were played.

The Panthers dropped the final preseason game in a shootout to Washington, opened the season with a 5-2 win over the Rangers before losing the last game in the last minute against Phoenix 2-1.

The player of the week for this week is Goaltender Vesa Toskala. He went 1-1-1, but had a 1.62 GAA and .913 Sv%.

The runners up were Mike Knuble and Rod Brind'Amour. Knuble didn't register a point, but had 15 shots in the 3 games this week. Brind'Amour scored twice and was a +1.

This week, the Panthers host the Devils, before going to Atlanta, then to New Jersey, before returning to play the Ducks.

Caged Great · 10-14-2009, 02:33 PM

Week 4 has concluded with the Panthers finishing with a record of 3-1-0

The Panthers beat New Jersey twice and the Ducks while losing to Atlanta in a rather high scoring affair.

The player of the week this week is Rookie Roman Polak. With a goal and 4 assists and a plus two, he's been off to a great start and leads all rookies in the league in points thus far.

Runners up this week were Jeff Halpern and Brian Rafalski. Halpern had 3 goals, and Rafalski had a goal and 5 assists.

Some oddities have crept up in the stats department. All players except Shaone Morrisonn, Ryan Johnson, and Stephane Yelle have scored at least 1 goal. Every regular has at least one point. The Panthers are near the top or are in first in of the league in shots for, fewest shots against, power play efficiency, fewest PIM per game.

Up this week is a 3 game road trip to Pittsburgh, Washington, and Anaheim before returning home to play the Oilers.

Sylvanfan · 10-14-2009, 03:01 PM

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Up this week is a 3 game road trip to Pittsburgh, Washington, and Anaheim before returning home to play the Oilers in a game where I'm sure we'll take our worst beating of the season.

Wow what happened there?

simmer2 · 10-14-2009, 03:54 PM

There are a lot of teams performing quite well that on paper shouldn't be doing as well as originally thought. FLA, CBJ and VAN are three teams that come to mind that have a lot of SIM Chemistry so far.