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Chychrun is only 23 years old, but he is already viewed among the best young players in the league at his position.

The Panthers are 10-1-1 in their last 12 games.

Aleksander Barkov had two goals and an assist for the Panthers.

The Flames snapped a four-game skid and won on home ice for the first time since Nov. 29.

MacKenzie Weegar, Jonathan Huberdeau, Anthony Duclair, Sam Bennett and Patric Hornqvist all had goals for the Panthers.

The Panthers are 7-0-1 since the extended Christmas break and they improved to 20-3-0 at home.

The NHL revealed its All-Star Game rosters on Thursday and as expected, Jonathan Huberdeau was selected as part of the Atlantic Division squad.

Sunrise police say that rapper Kodak Black was not having sex with a woman in a video from Tuesday night’s Florida Panthers game that went viral on social media.

Aleksander Barkov scored his team-leading 15th goal and also had an assist for Florida.

On Tuesday the League announced Brunette would be behind the bench for the Atlantic Division during the 2022 NHL All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas.

Carter Verhaeghe had two goals and Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and an assist as Florida.

Florida’s Joe Thornton played in his 1,700 regular season game.

Anthony Duclair, Ryan Lomberg and Lucas Carlsson each scored for Florida while teammate Patric Hownqvist added a pair of tallies.

Sam Bennett scored twice and Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves to lead the Florida Panthers past the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 on New Year’s Day in Sunrise.

Payton Thorne’s 22-yard touchdown pass to Jayden Reed gave No. 11 Michigan State the lead with less than three minutes remaining and the Spartans overcame an 11-point deficit to beat No. 13 Pittsburgh 31-21 on Thursday night in the Peach Bowl.

After shuffling nearly a dozen players in and out of COVID-19 protocols over the past several weeks, a replenished Florida roster resumed its post-Christmas schedule with back-to-back home games against two of the best teams in the Eastern Conference.

Rookie Anton Lundell opened the scoring for Florida, which improved to 19-7-4 on the season.

The league announced Monday night that it would begin its annual holiday break early, postponing an additional five games that had been scheduled for later this week.

Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was taken to a hospital for a head injury after he was carted off the field in the third quarter of Denver’s 15-10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.

The NHL has shut down two more teams through Christmas.

The Florida Panthers’ game scheduled for Saturday afternoon against the Minnesota Wild has been postponed because of an outbreak of COVID-19 within the Panthers’ organization.

Matt Kiersted scored his first career goal for Florida, which had seven players out for virus-related reasons.

Over the past few days, teams from across the NHL landscape have placed multiple players on the league's Covid list.

Sam Reinhart and Jonathan Huberdeau scored for the Panthers.

Joe Thornton and Brandon Montour scored in the third period for Florida, and Sergei Bobrovsky had 23 saves.

Pavel Buchnevich scored a wrap-around goal 53 seconds into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Florida Panthers 4-3.

On Episode 46 of the Chirping the Cats, it's all about Panthers forward Ryan Lomberg.

Anton Lundell scored twice, including the go-ahead goal, and the Florida Panthers came back from three down for the second straight game to beat the Buffalo Sabres 7-4.

Trailing 4-1, the Panthers scored four goals on a season-high 26 shots in the third period.

Florida was bidding to become the first team in NHL history to start 12-0-0 at home.

It was just the third regulation loss of the season for the Panthers.

Sam Bennett had a goal and an assist for Florida, and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky added 32 saves in the win.

Frank Vatrano scored twice and Sergei Bobrovsky made 34 saves to help the Panthers remain perfect at home.

The Panthers scored at least four goals for the 11th time this season.

On Episode 45 of the Chirping the Cats podcast, host David Dwork is joined by Mike Kelly of the NHL Network and Sportlogiq.

Officially, Barkov is week-to-week with a lower-body injury.

Barkov went down during the second period after a knee-to-knee hit by Islanders defenseman Scott Mayfield.

Florida has a four-game winless streak (0-2-2) since starting the season 10-0-1.

Kenny Pickett hit Lucas Krull for an 11-yard touchdown pass in overtime as No. 25 Pittsburgh held off North Carolina 30-23.

With a 10-2-1 record and 21 points in the bank, no other Panthers team has started a season with so much success.

Florida has now lost two straight games after starting the season with a 10-0-1 record.

The loss dropped Florida to 10-1-1, which is still the best record in the NHL.

On the latest episode of the Miami Sports Pod, it's all about the victories!

The Florida Panthers have matched the best 11-game start in NHL history.

Episode 44 of the Chirping the Cats podcast features one of the newest Panthers players, forward Sam Reinhart.

Aleksander Barkov scored twice, Aaron Ekblad had a goal and assist, and Brandon Montour also scored for the Panthers.

Chase Priskie was born and raised in South Florida and attended countless Panthers games as a child.

On Episode 43 of the Chirping the Cats, host David Dwork dives into the Florida Panthers' hot start to the season and some of the things that are standing out after the first nine games.

Leading Panthers practice on Monday, for the first time as interim head coach, was Andrew Brunette.

Charlie Coyle had the only score in the shootout and the Boston Bruins beat Florida 3-2 Saturday night, ending the Panthers’ season-opening winning streak at eight games.

The funeral for Yandy Chirino, the Hollywood Police officer who was killed Oct. 18 after being shot when he tried to wrestle a gun from an 18-year-old suspect, will be at the FLA Live Arena (formerly known as the BB&T Center).

This year’s offseason moves have put the Panthers in prime position to take the next step in working towards championship hopes. “I think that the players are proud to be Panthers,” Zito said of the team’s new culture going into the new year. Despite the strides the Panthers made in the regular season, Zito is adamant about performing in the sport’s biggest stage. The Panthers officially signed Knight to the roster with a three-year entry-level contract towards the end of last season. However, the burning question that dominated the offseason was the extension status for the Panthers’ superstar forward and captain, Aleksander Barkov.

Cameras caught Robby Anderson yelling at someone after Sam Darnold’s third interception of the day.

Thousands of Panthers fans might have seen a truck with a cryptic COVID message outside of Bank of America Stadium on Sunday. Here’s what we know about it.

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Florida International University’s Class of 2025 is a class of fighters. And when traditional rights-of-passages like prom and graduation were limited or canceled, they wiped off their tears and moved on. Freshmen entering FIU during the early fall and fall semesters boast an average GPA of 4.17. “We need to make things a little more special for them.”Class of 2025, welcome to FIU! To get a sneak peek about the class, meet three of our newest Panthers.

24 Pittsburgh pulled away after a grand slam Friday, beating the Canes 12-6 in Game 1 of the three-game series. Miami (17-9, 10-8 ACC) allowed Pitt to bat .462 overall, .533 with two outs, and .529 with runners in scoring position. All but one Panther starter had at least one base hit, nullifying an outing where the Canes also hit a respectable .286. Anthony Arguelles got Miami out of the sixth but not before allowing another two runs, as Pitt made it 8-5. Against the home team’s bullpen across 3 and 1/3 frames however, the Canes were able to plate just a single run.

The sports betting company acquired Banach in a $43 million transaction on Monday. Banach is a business-to-business software company that creates sports betting platforms and algorithms, including in-play wagers. PointsBet also agreed to an equity deal with CNBC parent company NBCUniversal valued at $500 million. "When you think about in-play betting and the future of a sports broadcast, it's all about that in-game engagement. In-play betting and in-play bet stats integrated into the broadcast can not only make people watch more games but also extend the duration of their viewing."

“I thought it was very innovative that [FIU] came up with some sort of way for us to participate and feel some sort of normalcy. “It was important to see him because he’s the face of this campus,” Santisteban said of one reason for attending. “I just keep thinking I want to continue my education, I want to stay at FIU,” Garcia said. His parents joined him on campus, and dad Jorge Ghitis put the experience of make-due commencement pageantry and virtual graduation into perspective. FIU graduates more than 15,000 students annually.

He won tickets to the Bruins-Panthers game...and we got to go behind the scenes, Batista said. We wore Panthers jerseys and they wore Bruins jerseys and the [Panthers staff] were like, You cant [meet the players] wearing that,' and he said, Well Im not taking it off. Gardella ended up putting another shirt on over the Bruins jersey to meet the Panthers players, she laughed.

Marijuana shops in the San Francisco bay area are getting in the Super Bowl spirit with Broncos and Panthers themed marijuana. CBSN's Contessa Brewer has details.

A closer look at how the two teams playing in Super Bowl 50 match up online ahead of the big game. Josh Ober, sports partnership manager for Twitter, joins CBSN with more.

Super Bowl week has kicked off as Broncos and Panthers fans gear up for the big game Sunday. These are the top trending Super Bowl 50 stories on CBSNews.com.

It was war, and a spy had infiltrated the Panthers' ranks. William O'Neal, a petty thief from the West Side, had driven a stolen car across state lines, a federal offense, and was offered a deal: Become an FBI informant and the case would go away. "I was beginning to feel clean again, just by helping the FBI," he afterward told the Tribune. Ordered to infiltrate the Panthers, he quickly rose from handyman to security chief, and in November, he was given an assignment by his FBI handler: a sketch of Hampton's apartment. "He wanted to know the locations of weapons caches, he wanted to know if we had explosives ... who spent the night where," O'Neal said in a videotaped interview at Washington University.

Timothy Edwards leads his "Panthers" platoon in a chant at Sunburst Youth Academy, a quasi-military high school run by the National Guard aimed at getting high school dropouts back on track.