Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2021/22 revision of our top Florida Panthers.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Panthers were Stanley Cup contenders, but they were eliminated in the second round.  As this is a young and loaded team, this led to three new entries on our top 50 and multiple elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which changed significantly from last year:

1. Roberto Luongo

2. Alexsander Barkov

3. Jonathan Huberdeau

4. John Vanbiesbrouck

5. Aaron Ekblad

You can find the entire list here.

Barkov, who won the Frank J. Selke in 2021 and the Lady Byng in 2019, moved to the #2 spot from #3.

Huberdeau, who was traded to the Flames in the off-season, and was a Second Team All-Star last year, also went up one rung with his new rank being #3.

Ekblad is the third mover withing the top five, with the Defenseman also edging one spot from #6. 

Defenseman, Mackenzie Weegar, reaches #19 from #33, but was also traded to Calgary along with Huberdeau.

Former Vezina Trophy winner with Columbus, Sergei Bobrovsky, enters the list at #23.

The other debuts are Defenseman, Gustav Forsling at #45 and Right Wing, Anthony Duclair at #48.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

From Michigan, Alex DeBrincat set goal-scoring records for the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League, leading the Winger to be drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks early in the Second Round of the 2016 Draft.  After completing one more year in the OHL, DeBrincat was ready for the big time.

DeBrincat had a solid rookie year, scoring 52 Points, and he broke out with a 41 Goal/76 Point year where he was sixth in Goals.  He had a third-year slump, dropping to 45 Points, but was over a Point-per-Game player in the COVID-stricken 2021-21 campaign with his 31 Goals good enough for third in the league.  

By this point, DeBrincat emerged as the team’s top scorer, and he was named an Alternate Captain.  He matched his 41 Goal output from before in 2021-22, and he was an All-Star for the first time, though despite his success, Chicago was a bad team looking to rebuild.  DeBrincat was surprisingly traded to Ottawa Senators for three Draft Picks.  With Chicago, DeBrincat scored 307 Points and less than 100 Penalty Minutes in five NHL Seasons.

All-Rookie player in 2018-19, Finnish Defenseman, Miro Heiskanen is living up to the hype that a Third Overall Pick should be.

Heiskanen, who has played five years for Dallas to date, has managed to score at least 30 Points in four of them, and had it not been for the COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign, he would have made it five-for-five  Finishing 12^th in Norris voting in both 2019/20 and 2021/22, Heiskanen broke out offensively last year with a 73 Point performance netting him a seventh-place Norris Trophy finish.

Heiskanen has a lot more good hockey in him, and we think he will rocket up this list if he stays in Dallas.

A Third Round Pick by the New York Rangers in 2013, Anthony Duclair bounced around with the team that drafted him, Arizona, Chicago, Columbus, and Ottawa before signing with the Florida Panthers in the 2020 off-season, in a move that has thus far proved fruitful for both parties.

The Left Wing responded well for his sixth team, scoring 32 Points in 43 Games in 2020-21 but last year, Duclair had his best year in the National Hockey League with career-highs in Goals (31), Assists (27), and Points (58) and vecame a certified contributor on a playoff contender, but injuries would hold him to onlt 20 Games in 2022/23.  That was his last season in Florida, as he was traded to the San Jose Sharks as a salary cap move.

He had 99 Points in 137 Games as a Panther.