Jonah Gadjovich

But can you just talk about that depth a little bit, and is that, was that a surprise? And is, how's that fourth line looking? All these guys, they're kinda trying to replace AJ Greer a little bit, but maybe a, a little bit of a sh- a surprise?

I, I think it's more of a replacement for Jonah Gadjovich.

He's not gonna play for a while.

He had neck surgery, I believe it was in November.

You have Brady Tkachuk sidelined.

You have Gleb Klimov, Seth Jarvis, Alexander Nikishin, and Jonah Gadjovich all listed as out or on injured reserve, and yet Alexander Barkov was still producing.

Exactly.

That's what we're breaking down today.

Mike, with Tkachuk moved on, the wing spots are open.

Angus Crookshank, Jonah Gadjovich, and Bo Kanjamama are all on the roster.

But I suspect we'll see Cole Reinhart or Kai Schwindt getting significant training camp looks.

These are young, hungry players.

And then it, y- I know that- A high-scoring game for a bunch of prospects doesn't necessarily create momentum for an off-season necessarily, but there is a lot of good feelings coming out of that because the Florida Panthers, we thought, um, as far as the fans, we were thinking that there's no way in hell that 500-plus man games lost were ever going to happen again to this group.

I'd be very surprised if we saw that, not only with Barkov missing the entire season, but adding up a, a, a fourth line piece that was very important to the Panthers in 2025 in Jonah Gadjovich after game number 10 was, uh, and we never saw him again the rest of the season as we saw a little bit of a setback.

And then some differences that the coaching staff was making towards the end of the season.

I mean, if we saw a back-to-back, we always knew that Sergei Bobrovsky was gonna be starting on the front end of a back-to-back, but when the trade deadline came about, it was Daniil Tarasov that was on the front end.

[cheering] And what about the forwards? @hockeydad55 asks about the wingers.

We have Brad Marchand, Matthew Tkachuk, Tomas Nosek, Garnet Hathaway, plus Angus Kruikshank, Jonah Gadjovich, Bokonji Iwama, Cole Reinhart, Sandis Velmanis, and Cole Schwindt.

Who sticks? [drum roll]

Marchand and Tkachuk are locks.