Ten teams with the fewest points in the league this season (or teams that obtained those respective clubs' first-round selection) could have won the draft drawing, as the club selected may not have moved up more than 10 positions in the draft order. They kept focus, they kept levity in the room and they celebrate what’s good about the players.The drawing, a weighted lottery involving the 16 clubs that did not qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs or teams that obtained those respective clubs' first-round draft pick, used a probability system offering all participating teams a certain percentage of odds for receiving the first pick overall. “That coaching staff deserves so much credit.
“Kudos to Paul for having a plan, sticking to the plan, really working the plan, teaching, helping, making guys better,” Zito said. He was seasoned enough to get a long leash from Zito and never waver from his convictions. There were advanced metrics insisting the Panthers were better than the results suggested and there was no point in making the playoffs, Maurice even argued, if they would just flame out quickly again by playing the same run-and-gun style. He faced incessant questions about his team’s performance for six months, all the while insisting the club had the right idea. The 56-year-old Canadian has also coached more games than all but three other coaches, though, and his lifetime of experiences in hockey prepared him for a situation like this.
He shoved the credit off on Maurice, who has lost more games than any coach in NHL history and added 32 more in the regular season. Sometimes you don’t, but when we did this time it’s kind of, OK, it’s part of the process. I think it’s too easy to say, Oh, every time there’s change, it’s going to dip. you never really know what’s going to happen.
“It’s a little self serving and a little, Let’s go back in history and say, Oh, I thought it all out,” Zito said. In between, the Panthers were also the only team in the league not to make a move in the month ahead of the trade deadline benched Sergei Bobrovsky in favor of fellow goaltender Alex Lyon, a 30-year-old career minor leaguer and watched Tkachuk blossom into a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy. Florida, a year removed from winning its first Presidents’ Trophy, stumbled through the first half of the season and was nine points out of a playoff spot after Christmas, and then somehow regrouped to make the Cup playoffs in the last week of the regular season. The Panthers traded away star left wing Jonathan Huberdeau - at the time, the leading scorer in franchise history - and star defenseman MacKenzie Weegar to get superstar right wing Matthew Tkachuk from the Flames. The outcome, at least so far, is.įlorida let former interim coach Andrew Brunette, who was a finalist for the Jack Adams Award, walk away and hired coach Paul Maurice as his replacement. The path was not the one anyone expected. 8-seed Panthers, who just barely squeaked into the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs, are now going to the Eastern Conference finals after upsetting the Bruins and Maple Leafs in back-to-back rounds - and there was pride in what Florida accomplished with its series-clinching 3-2, overtime win. The general manager is the architect of the best story in the NHL right now - the No. In the middle of it all, Bill Zito smiled and took a few minutes to chat with anyone who approached. No one was exactly in a rush to get back to the team hotel, where they wouldn’t hold a team dinner until well after midnight. Teresa Viola, the wife of the owner, waited outside the locker room to congratulate every player who passed by.
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Nick Cousins and Matthew Tkachuk cracked jokes in front of a horde of reporters. was almost midnight Friday and the bowels of Scotiabank Stadium were still buzzing with gleeful Florida Panthers. Sunrise, FL- MaPanthers General Manager Bill Zito speaks to the press during a press conference at Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida
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