Last evening I endured the mind-numbingly slow commute west from downtown Fort Lauderdale to see in person whether this Florida Panthers squad was for real, or just a fringey playoff team. The Atlantic Division leading New Jersey Devils would make a good measuring stick. The Cats dominated the Devils all…
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Trade talks have been heating up between Panthers GM Jacques Martin and several teams throughout the league concerning stud defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. The Cats reportedly offered Jay a multiyear deal last summer worth more than $5 million per season, so Martin has every right to believe that the soon-to-be free…
Last night was the one-year anniversary of the night in Buffalo when Panthers winger Richard Zednik almost died after Olli Jokinen’s skate slashed his carotid artery and sent five pints of blood onto the ice. A few days in the hospital and a blood transfusion later, Zednik was eying a…
The Panthers are currently just two points out of a playoff spot, which is a classic case of good news/bad news for GM Jacques Martin. Obviously, the goal is to win the Stanley Cup this year, and the best way to do that is to go out and pick up…
The Panthers are currently just two points out of a playoff spot, which is a classic case of good news/bad news for GM Jacques Martin. Obviously, the goal is to win the Stanley Cup this year, and the best way to do that is to go out and pick up…
David Booth is one of the hardest working players on the Panthers; hell he might be the hardest working player in the league. On the ice, he’s a maniac: charging after loose pucks, giving up his body on defense and taking gargantuan beatings night in and night out as he…
It’s a scientific fact that the best way to get over a holiday hangover is to pick up an enormous, chainsaw-equipped machine gun and mow down a few of your closest friends. And you’re in luck. SFX360 and GameWars are joining forces to destroy the post-holiday blues with a Gears…
It’s about time we give it up for Peter DeBoer. The rookie head coach of the Florida Panthers wasn’t exactly a hot name around the NHL when he was hired, and not many people expected him to be able to do much with a team that lost its offensive leader…
It’s time to be brutally honest; being a Panthers fan can be embarrassing. It has nothing to do with the way the Cats have been playing lately. In fact, the Cats are rapidly rising in the standings thanks to an excellent goaltending tandem and unexpectedly good play from young players…
Injuries are never a good thing for a hockey team. For the Panthers though, all it took was a few injuries to some forwards and a host of rookies marching through the locker room to generate some serious momentum. Key players like Jay Bouwmeester and Stephen Weiss are playing near…
Rather than drinking yourself into oblivion to avoid another awkward conversation with the in-laws this holiday season, sneak away and catch Rich Vos at the all-new Coral Springs Comedy Club. Vos has been featured in his own Comedy Central special, is a frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony radio…
Fan favorite tough guy, Wade Belak, was waived by the Panthers. Luckily for us, he cleared waivers and the universally unpopular move didn’t necessarily end his days as a Cat, and from that sticky situation something great might grow: a new sense of team unity. The locker room rallied around…
There’s good news and bad news for the Panthers. The bad news has to do with their stats: the Cats have been at or near the bottom of the league in points for most of the year. That does not bode well for playoff hopes, let alone a division title…
If for some reason you watched the fifth season of The Man Show, the man you saw hosting was not Doug Stanhope. It was merely the shell of a man who’d been neutered by a cable network. The real Doug Stanhope will be showing up at the Poorhouse on Friday…
As adults, Halloween is an excuse to cross-dress or emulate a Bourbon Street prostitute without repercussions. This year, The G-Star School of Arts is going all out to scare you into a coma during X-Scream Halloween (2030 S. Congress Ave., West Palm Beach). With four different haunted attractions as well…
Coffee shops get a bad rap these days. It seems most people associate them with bad beat poetry and intellectual snobs endlessly talking about Ingmar Bergman films while looking down with contempt at pop culture. The Undergrounds Coffeehaus (2743 East Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale) proves that shrines to caffeine…
Olli Jokinen is gone, doomed to suffer in Phoenix after the Panthers traded him for two young defensemen (Keith Ballard and Nick Boynton). The Cats also welcome another stud D-man in Bryan McCabe, acquired from Toronto for Mike Van Ryn. No one is happier about these moves than goalie Tomas…
It has been years since the University of Miami Hurricanes have dominated college football. Hell, the Canes used to field what was close to a professional outfit, with multiple first-round NFL picks on each side of the ball every year. But times have changed, and now the U is just…
The end of World War II not only brought about the end of worldwide Nazi oppression; it also marked the beginning of the United State’s fascination with Japanese culture. Today, that interest in all things Eastern has hit a fever pitch, as is evident by the throngs of Anime fanatics…
How many among us can truly claim to have a healthy and productive outlet for the immense rage that grows within us, what with hurricanes barreling our way on a weekly basis? It just makes you want to punch someone, but acting out that fantasy would most likely land you…
One of the greatest bands in the history of punk rock, the Queers, has been playing its signature blend of in-your-face-ruckus for more than 26 years. That’s an awfully long time to do anything, much less play three-chord tunes to an increasingly jaded fan base. Thankfully, Joe Queer and the…
