The Florida Panthers have kicked off a new season as back-to-back Stanley Cup champions. On Tuesday, they celebrated by raising another championship banner at Amerant Bank Arena.

Even if this season doesn’t carry that same existential, weight-of-the-world feeling of years past, expectations remain high.

A play on the speeches that Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett gave at the Stanley Cup parade, where they both gleefully pointed out that they apologize to no one for the Panthers being the Panthers.

The Florida Panthers are the two-time reigning Stanley Cup champions, but they aren't the preseason favorites to take home the title during the 2025-26 NHL campaign.

A brawl in a Miami-Dade high school restroom Monday morning ended with one teen girl hospitalized after being hit with a Stanley cup water bottle and a trumpet — and another jailed for attacking her,

Mike Sullivan and the New York Rangers are making a late Stanley Cup-winning addition before the NHL season debut against Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

That step—the opening of the NHL's 2025-26 regular-season schedule—comes Tuesday night for six teams in three cities who'll kick off the league's 109th season. The two-time defending champion Florida Panthers are aiming for a first three-peat since the New York Islanders won No.