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      Acciari records his first 3 goals of season in Panthers' rout

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        What We've Been Watching In An Extra-Weird NHL Season

        neil (Neil Paine, senior sportswriter): We're about 40 percent of the way through the 2021 NHL season now, and it's already had a lot of twists and turns -- both on and off the ice. To talk about those shifts, we're bringing together a bunch of people who love to watch and study hockey for our inaugural NHL Slack chat. Today, I wanted to gather your first-half thoughts and also talk about what you're looking forward to as we approach the trade deadline in about a month. First, let's discuss the elephant in the room of this whole post-bubble NHL season: the impact of COVID-19 on the sport. After a really tough early stretch where about a third of (non-Canadian) teams were shut down at one point or another, the league hit a better milestone earlier this week -- a season-low three players on the protocol list -- before getting another big reminder that things still aren't normal, when Sidney Crosby became the biggest star to join the list. (He's since left the protocol.) So where do you all think things stand with the virus in the game now? Has the league gotten past the worst of it, and did its changes in policy last month have anything to do with that? And should we still be worried about something like Crosby's situation happening in the playoffs, where a...
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        What We've Been Watching In An Extra-Weird NHL Season

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          Ekblad scores twice as Panthers hold off Predators

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            The Florida Panthers Haven't Made A Real Playoff Run In Decades. That Could Change This Year.

            It's hard to stand out in the same division with the defending Stanley Cup champions ... especially when they also happen to be among the favorites to run it back and win again. That's the problem facing the Florida Panthers this season, playing in the shadow of the mega-talented Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL's realigned Central Division. And if that weren't enough, the Central is also home to the 2020 Cup runners-up, the Dallas Stars, plus the perennially dangerous Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators, and the last remnants of the Chicago Blackhawks' dynasty days for good measure. In light of all that, making the playoffs at all was looking like an uphill battle for Florida, much less doing any kind of damage once there. And yet, despite the tough divisional competition, the Panthers have found themselves leading the Central with 13 wins and 28 points after roughly a third of the 2021 season. Florida now has an 81 percent chance of making the NHL's Round of 16 (according to simulations using our Elo ratings) for the first time since 2016 -- and a 36 percent chance of advancing deeper into the playoffs than any edition of the franchise in 25 years. In fact, since the preseason, no team has added more to its odds of making the playoffs than Florida and its 46-percentage point increase. [The NHL's...
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            The Florida Panthers Haven't Made A Real Playoff Run In Decades. That Could Change This Year.
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            2021 Central Division Standings

            TeamWLOTLPTS
            Tampa Bay164234
            Florida154434
            Carolina166133
            Chicago137531
            Columbus1011525
            Nashville1014020
            Dallas78418
            Detroit716317

            2021 Team Leaders

            Goals

            Jonathan Huberdeau

            Jonathan HuberdeauLW #11

            10
            Power Play Goals3
            shots39

            Assists

            Jonathan Huberdeau

            Jonathan HuberdeauLW #11

            18
            Plus/Minus6
            Power Play Assists9

            Points

            Jonathan Huberdeau

            Jonathan HuberdeauLW #11

            28
            Goals10
            Assists18

            2021 Team Stats

            Goals For / Game
            3.35
            Goals Against / Game
            2.78
            Power Play %
            26.5
            Penalty Kill %
            76.9

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            Team History

            YearWLOTLPts
            2021154434
            2019-203526878
            2018-1936321486
            2017-184430896
            2016-1735361181
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