The on-ice success story for the Florida Panthers is easy to see: They’re one win away from a second consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup Final. The off-ice success isn’t hard to figure out, either.
Florida Panthers center Aleksander Barkov passes his stick to a fan after the Panthers defeated the Boston Bruins in Game 2 of a second-round series of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. Florida Panthers center Aleksander Barkov is congratulated after scoring a goal during the third period of Game 2 against the Boston Bruins of a second-round series of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla.
“If you win and you build a good program, you create an expanded fan base that isn’t necessarily then going to fluctuate with wins and losses all the time,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “You have to, over time, play an exciting game of hockey. But I’d like to feel that we’re part of something with deep enough roots that we would be considered a model franchise.”
That phrase — “model franchise” — was not one that anyone in hockey would tag the Panthers with a few years ago. Relocation rumors, despite the team steadfastly saying they were totally untrue, were constant. The home rink was half-empty, at best, much of the time.Panthers beat Rangers 3-2 in Game 5 to move within win of Stanley Cup Final return
Florida will play its 50th home game of the season on Saturday night, tying last year’s team for the second-most in club history. If Florida makes the Stanley Cup Final, there is a chance that the Panthers’ total home attendance could top the 1 million mark for the first time; it’ll be somewhere around 940,000 for the season when all the tickets for Game 6 against the Rangers are counted.
“You have to play a style of game that if you’re going to spend your money and you’re going to go to the rink in February, you’ve got a real good chance of being entertained,” Maurice said. “And I think these men do that.”
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