{"id":207372,"date":"2025-09-07T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/207372\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:29:10","slug":"where-nhl-network-ranks-the-florida-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/207372\/","title":{"rendered":"Where NHL Network Ranks the Florida Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Florida Panthers were well represented in the NHL Network\u2019s latest rankings of the league\u2019s best players with six players making the cut among top goalies, wingers, centers, and defensemen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">With six players ranked at their respective divisions, the Panthers are tied with the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning for having the most players selected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Since the Panthers are, after all, the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions, that is not much of a surprise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Earlier this week, NHL Network wrapped up its rankings with the goalies \u2014 and <b>Sergei Bobrovsky<\/b> placed fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cTo win back-to-back Stanley Cups and just re-cement himself as a top five goalie,\u201d analyst <b>Cory Schneider<\/b> said, \u201cI think this could be even low for him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">At center, captain <b>Sasha Barkov <\/b>was ranked fourth with <b>Sam Bennet<\/b>t \u2014 who signed an eight-year, $64 million deal with the team in June \u2014 coming in No. 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">When it came to Barkov, former Florida Panthers forward and NHL Network analyst <b>Brian Boyle<\/b> had some very flattering words. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Barkov, of course, has won the Selke Trophy for best defensive forward the past two seasons and three times in his career. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">During the playoffs, it was announced he was the first player to ever win the Selke and King Clancy trophies in the same season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cIf you have him on your team, and you\u2019re a head coach, you\u2019re thanking God every single<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"> night for your situation because he does make your job that much easier,\u2019\u2019 said Boyle, who played with Barkov and the Panthers during the 2019-20 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cIf Barky wanted to get 40 goals, or 50 goals even, I think he could do it. He would never risk the perfect shifts that he has game-over-game-over-game to make sure you\u2019re not going to score. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cHe sees the talent around him now and he\u2019s going to make sure he wins his shifts, doesn\u2019t necessarily have to score, if a big goal is needed, we\u2019ve seen it in the Stanely Cup Final, he\u2019s scored some big, beautiful goals. It\u2019s not what drives him; winning drives him. He doesn\u2019t want the limelight, and he doesn\u2019t need to attention. He\u2019s just going to play perfect hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Defenseman <b>Gus Forsling<\/b> was 12th, with wingers <b>Matthew Tkachuk<\/b> (seventh) and <b>Sam Reinhart <\/b>(eighth) finishing off the list.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More FHN Coverage of the Stanley Cup Champion Panthers:<\/p>\n<p>2024 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS 2025<br \/>\nFLORIDA PANTHERS<br \/>\nON DECK<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/membership-account\/subscribe-to-fhn\/\" onclick=\"ga(&#039;send&#039;, &#039;event&#039;, { eventCategory: &#039;adclick&#039;, eventAction: &#039;click&#039;, eventLabel: &#039;fhn-plus-post&#039;});\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Get-FHN.png\" alt=\"Get FHN+ today!\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers were well represented in the NHL Network\u2019s latest rankings of the league\u2019s best players with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-207372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115162551190765268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}