Cooper Black

And Kai Schwent with his fourth training camp with the Florida Panthers.

But in the first period for both of these teams, I mean, it was really about the Panthers youngsters trying to get like a feel of the game and not trying to do too much as far as like taking chances and also leaving Cooper Black out to dry, which Cooper Black played the first two periods for the Florida Panthers and went into the third period where the Panthers and Lightning were tied at two.

But Cooper Black looked outstanding.

And when it came to the rebound opportunities, the Florida Panthers defense was able to box out and not give those grade A opportunities.

And it really took a long time for the Tampa Bay lightning to really get the high danger opportunities.

But yeah, Credit to the Florida Panthers on their ability to respond as well and not being comfortable because there wasn't a lot of high-danger chances before.

But then one little breakdown where the Tampa Bay Lightning are going in transition.

Cole Schwinn is really the only forward back, and he commits a little bit to his left and leaves the middle open before – His other wingers come into the defensive zone where it was Nate Bastian and Hunter St. Martin, and then that leaves the upper slot open where Jansen Harkins receives the puck on a drop, drives, and then shoots past Cooper Black to make it 2-1 Tampa Bay.

I mean...

We could possibly see Cooper Black make his debut.

They didn't sign a veteran this season, unfortunately.

But the two guys at least getting some experience where Akirishmead is over 80 games in his career.

But like I said a week ago, the Panthers are gonna continue with bridge options in goal as long as their contention window i- is, is, is open.

And, uh, Cooper Black, as of right now, is the third goaltender and is gonna be the call-up.

And, uh Yeah, the, the Panthers are relying on internal development for their, their goaltending position.

For now.

He's competing with Akira Schmidt.

Cooper Black is the third string.

Markstrom is the clear favorite to start based on pedigree, but Schmidt has the upside.

right and let's not forget the other storylines we saw headlines about grading pre-season bold predictions and behind the scenes at the nhl broadcast training camp the media cycle is moving fast but for us it's simple florida is built to contend next question from at pence purge 99 how worried should we be about the center ice log jam we have barkov lundell reinhardt bennett that's a lot of bodies

Segment two, roster battles.

Our first question here is from Kevin in Sunrise.

He asks, who wins the starting goalie job, Markstrom or Schmidt? And what happens to Cooper Black?

Kevin, this is the most critical decision of training camp.

You really wanna, you wanna hear something really funny? So when we played Charlotte, I was saving this for the end, actually.

Um, when we played Charlotte, [laughs] Cooper Black is 6'8", which is Charlotte's number one goalie, okay? He's 6'8".

McGinn is 5'8".

Short king.

[laughs] If I'm 6'8", I'm gonna stand there.

Um, but if I'm only six foot, and he's probably a lot more muscular than me, so I'm getting out of the way.

McGinn took the legs out b- from underneath Cooper Black.

That's probably 'cause he was just trying to go under his legs.