The Florida Panthers have reconnoitered your village and have decided to strategically retreat.

[DickSmehlik]

Just 1 regulation win in the past 13 games, going 4-8-1 over that same stretch. Their defense looks okay but their offense is drying up, only scoring more than 2 goals 2x during that stretch.

After seemingly not missing a beat post Tkachuk injury (winning 6 out of their first 7 games without him), they could sure use him now.

Can they flip the switch come playoff time?

 

[Orfieus]

Is Tkachuk their only injury?

 

[ItWasJustified]

Turns out the traffic cone was very important to them and that Seth Jones should not play 1st pair minutes. Who would've thought.

 

[MHO]

Beware of the incoming barrage of Blackhawks fans into this thread...

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

They've played alot of hockey in the past 2 years , vet move to just relax a bit , they won't miss the PO

 

[Mogo]

East Teams

 

[trick9]

Yeah... i think health over form is what they are focusing on now. Almost like they don't mind playing Leafs instead of Bolts in the 1st round.

Their 1st line last game: Verhaeghe - Rodrigues - Puljujarvi. Top-pair was Mikkola - Jones.

 

[RogerRoger]

For those wondering, here's the current lineup:

Verhaeghe-Rodrigues-Puljujarvi
Luostarinen-Lundell-Marchand
Boqvist-Asplund-Samoskevich
Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Mikkola-Jones
Kiersted-Schmidt
Megma-Balinskis

 

[Madap]

Is Tkachuk their only injury?

He’s not injured, but the cheater Ekblad is sitting out too due to suspension. Barkov missed a few too I think.

 

[Killakirillthethrill]

Barkov just came back from injury along with Marchand, and now they are missing Sam Bennett, Gustav Forsling and Sam Reinhart who missed last game, along with Ekblads suspension. I'd say there pretty banged up, and for some reason are playing Samoskevich on the 4th line...

Oh and Kulikov is out as well.

 

[Ratsreign]

Tkachuk, Barkov, Kulikov all out injured, and Ekblad is incarcerated .
On top of that, Maurice rested Bennet, Rhino, and Forsling vs Detroit.
I think it’s safe to say that they don’t really care who they play, they just want to be healthy when playoffs start.

 

[Voight]

Is Tkachuk their only injury?

Barkov is day to day

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

11 games without a regulation win is the longest stretch they've had in at least 8 years (my data only goes back to 17-18).

Previous longest drought was first 10 games of the 18-19 season.

 

[Dabeast]

The funniest part of this 5 game L streak is that they've probably been the better team in 4 of the 5 (with the other one being more of a coinflip game) despite all the absences and having 2 B2Bs during that run. Been a weird stretch with some hilarious bounces going against them.

Not trying to be the my team is actually great and just really unlucky guy but if you watch the games or look at the numbers it's just what it is.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

reconnoitered is still crazy

 

[Dominance]

Ekblad is one of the most disrespected and undervalued players in the league.

 

[Fatass]

For those wondering, here's the current lineup:

Verhaeghe-Rodrigues-Puljujarvi
Luostarinen-Lundell-Marchand
Boqvist-Asplund-Samoskevich
Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Mikkola-Jones
Kiersted-Schmidt
Megma-Balinskis

Leafs are going to crushpop that lineup in round one.

 

[kerrabria]

Important context: we played last game without our 1C, 2C, 1D, 2D, two best wingers, and other depth guys.

 

[Dabeast]

Leafs are going to crushpop that lineup in round one.

How do we tell him

 

[Fatass]

Ekblad is one of the most disrespected and undervalued players in the league.

He cheats by using PEDs. How good will he be now he’s been caught and isn’t using?

 

[Dominance]

He cheats by using PEDs. How good will he be now he’s been caught and isn’t using?

That’s not what happened.

 

[SpezDispenser]

Lol, the thread title is clever

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Is Tkachuk their only injury?

Ekblad's on timeout for being a vewy vewy bad boi

 

[GoldenSeal]

What everyone sees as a freefall I see as the Cats buying time to get their people healthy and ready. They've already clinched and are making adjustments and resting up for the playoffs. They don't care about 'nothing' games like these, they're getting ready for the games that matter.

 

[BHD]

Even when "healthy", it seemed like the Panthers were pacing themselves this season.

And for those wondering, per DailyFaceoff, here are their players out of the lineup:

Aleksander Barkov
Sam Bennett
Aaron Ekblad
Dmitry Kulikov
Sam Reinhart
Nico Sturm
Matthew Tkachuk

The OP missed most of the names.