For Panthers Lifers Like Barkov And Ekblad, Florida’s Stanley Cup Run Has Extra Meaning.

Aleksander Barkov’s decade with the Florida Panthers has consisted of eight different coaches, three different general managers — including one who held the job twice and another who fired a coach to take the job himself — and, until the last two years, 15 more regular-season losses than wins and never a single appearance beyond the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. It hasn’t always been an easy career for Barkov, who was named captain in 2018 and then promptly missed the Cup playoffs for the third straight year, and yet now the Read more at..

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