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It's a little more than I'd have liked to pay and 1 year longer than I'd have liked but this post is ridiculous. He was put on waivers before the 2022 season, nearly 2 years ago, not "months ago." Since clearing waivers he has put up 27 goals and 66 points in the bottom 6, while providing great D, PKing and physicality. And 16 points in 26 playoff games. I absolutely can't stand when Rod plays him on the top line but Martinook is an extremely valuable 3rd liner. I have no problem with this move.

Core pieces locked up, youth movement filling in elsewhere, not ideal to let a lot of great talent walk but I honestly don't hate it. It's kinda exciting, as we legitimately do have great prospects that will need spots to play in. Need to get Jarvis locked up for 8 and I'd also put the focus on keeping Necas for like 6 years. I also think we'll make a big splash in FA or trade within the next year or two once the right opportunity presents itself. Like really big splash to add to the core. Still think we make the playoffs this season but possibly as a wildcard. Next year Nikishin arrives along with the potential splash and young guys continuing to develop and I think we're back to being contenders year in year out. Not writing off next year by any means but yeah we've gotten worse and I don't consider us top contenders going into next year, for the first time in probably 5 years.

Yep glad to see it. I’m still pissed at how ripped off I was last year paying full price Sunday ticket for that poo product of ours, while not watching any other games really

don't know crap about this dude or any other player in this draft, but after being a Scoot fan last year, I've come to realize I wouldn't know poo regardless so will put a bit of trust into our new ownership, front office and coaching staff (at least until they prove to still be the same old hornets) In a poor draft like this I do like the idea of a boom/bust pick

just don't let any jets fans in until all the panthers fans have showed up lol

yeah I’ve been to Wofford I think 3 times and absolutely loved it. I don’t know anything about the new set up but can’t imagine it’ll be anywhere near as good as Wofford was. Sad

Can someone here who goes do a write up with how camp is set up these days? Wofford was great from a fan perspective, curious to see how this compares. With Tepper being behind it my guess is it’ll suck

Slavin expected to extend 8 years $6.5M per year as soon as he’s eligible on July 1. Absolutely ridiculous steal and great early work from Tulsky. Slavin is tied for our most important player with Aho and I’d honestly give him $10M per year if that’s what it took to keep him. He’s easily worth it.

As expected and glad to hear it's official. I think he's been more responsible for our sustained success the last 6 years than Waddell was. Both have been important, don't get me wrong. But I'd rather let Don walk like we did than have Tulsky take a GM job elsewhere, which he absolutely would've gotten eventually (has already had several interviews and league wide interest). I think Justin Williams could backfill some of the Waddell duties on the GM side. Team President will probably be a new hire, or other promotion from within -- Waddell was definitely good at that stuff but all that stuff doesn't directly impact the on ice product.

Tennis too for any fans of the sport

I'm sure whatever JR did do that we haven't heard about is not as bad as the majority of other owners like Jones, Kraft, Irsay, Snyder, etc. I'm no JR defender, he sucked too. My point is just that he did not fight the accusations or league whatsoever and just bent over. All the other owners want to keep their teams as we saw from Snyder for so long and Kraft, Jones easily getting all their controversies swept under the rug.

Our future RHD room had a ton of question marks going into this offseason, glad we took care of 1 spot already. It's a good price and term for Chatty. Very good chance he outplays this deal but there is some risk of it being a slight overpayment for a guy more suited for the 3rd pair. If he and Orlov as expected wind up being our 2nd pair, I'm confident and comfortable in them being an above average 2nd pair, but we do have to see it first. It was ridiculous having them as a 3rd pair last year, though really too bad Pesce got hurt in the playoffs. I don't think this rules out keeping Pesce necessarily but he probably walks. So we've got Burns, Chatty, Morrow next year. Not terrible if we keep the big forward guns like Guentz and Necas but if we don't we definitely still need to add to the RHD group IMO. Morrow ideally plays most of next year in the AHL. And Burns' play slipped down the stretch last year and he's going to be a year older and is already the oldest player in the league. I don't want to trade Necas but if we do, barring him being just 1 piece in a big forward upgrade, I hope we get a legit cost controlled top 4 RHD back.

I think it's a reasonable comparison with the context that Teddy's career ultimately was greatly hindered by his brutal injury in MN. His first two seasons weren't the best (better than bryce's rookie year but not by much) but going into year 3 he appeared by all accounts to be taking the next step forward before destroying his leg (if I recall right, it was like a 2 year recovery). He honestly wasn't that bad for us/Denver considering that injury. I think Bryce can be what Teddy could've been if not for that injury. Still not an elite franchise QB or even close to it, but potentially a Dalton, Palmer, Carr, etc. type of 2nd/3rd tier QB who can get you to the playoffs, but I don't really see him as having the upside to be a QB who gets you that SB win. That said, there have been a few teams that have shown you can win a SB without an elite QB -- Ravens with Flacco, Eagles with Foles. Bryce could be as good as either of those guys if the rest of the team around him is good enough. Long story short, I don't really think he's the guy long term here. Maybe he becomes like KC Alex Smith for us and sticks around a while until we try to replace him but sadly I think the most likely outcome is that he doesn't start a game for us after this season.

should've been a day 2 pick but whatever, the falcons suck regardless (yeah I know, glass houses and all)

uhh our roster and team expectations are exactly at a point where we can afford to sit/develop players. We need to build out a core and add talented players for the future period, nobody is expecting us to compete/contend this year. Teams solidly in their window (like the Chiefs, Bills, etc.) are ones who can't afford to use high picks or cap space on players who won't contribute immediately. I'd argue the main reason the Chiefs went back to back was their ability to draft immediate impact players the last 2 years. As a team squarely in the beginning of a rebuild we don't care about immediate impact, just starting to get some damn impact players at all. If they take a few years to develop so be it, we're not losing anything right now.

The good thing is RBs don't really need training camp as much as most other positions. Would obviously be better to have him, but he's either got vision/tackle-breaking/hands or he doesn't and one training camp isn't going to change much. Hopefully he's ready by preseason

the NFL didn't even have to "force JR out." JR was probably the one who suggested the idea of him selling quickly and quietly to the league. dude only gave a poo about the league and not the team. don't get me wrong I'd gladly take him back over Tepper, but JR was pretty damn bad too. if JR had any interest in remaining owner he easily could've done so. But he knew it wouldn't be good for the league so he sold. Snyder had been fighting the rest of the owners for like a decade plus. JR would never put up any fight with the league even though he did significantly less bad things than Snyder.

"Local scum bag" Assume you're referring to Navarro? Not sure how he's a scumbag (other than existing as a billionaire)... I won't claim to know how he would be as an owner but he was a wayyyy better option at the time than Tepper. Actually committed to the Carolinas (just tried and unfortunately failed to get a huge tennis tournament moved to Charlotte from Cincinnati), a legit sports guy whose dad was a longtime cfb coach, and his kids are all athletes. No brainer over Tepper for the success of the team, but the NFL obviously was going to pick the dude with insane amount of $ who sucks and will give all the other owner's teams automatic wins every year. And JR was letting the NFL run the sale for the league to save face -- he was always shield>panthers guy

Just such a sad state of affairs that it's difficult to get rid of season tickets... Not a local but if I was I'd have absolutely loved to have season tickets during some of the good years. If I moved there tomorrow I wouldn't even remotely consider PSLs now with what Tepper has done with the team. Would go to a game here or there for cheap resale tickets with low expectations, but certainly not shell out for a full season + PSL cost. Plenty of teams out there too where people would kill to have a chance for season tickets but the waitlists are so damn long. Curious, can you keep the PSL but turn down the tickets for a season?

'18 and '19 preseasons we looked good, granted both those seasons were derailed largely due to Cam not being healthy but still.

this draft sucks ass and I find it hard to find any excitement in it whatsoever. the upside of whatever dude we wind up taking will probably be a decent 6th man, which we could use sure, but we need legit talent when we pick high like this. Miller last year kinda helps make up for this year sucking but still a bummer that after such a terrible season we have no good consolation prize. I am excited about the new coaching staff and our young talent already on the roster though, just need to stay healthy (much easier said than done for melo and mark unfortunately)

I'm totally ready to get my hopes up again and get hurt again. Happens every year as a Panthers fan

2 things can be true. we sucked all around last year and it was obvious but preseason still means absolutely nothing. we looked like poo 2015 preseason and KB went down everyone thought the season was doomed.

I think Williams will basically replace Waddell in that role. Tulsky may get the title if he wants it. Can’t see us letting him go elsewhere and if we don’t make him GM he can go anywhere that will offer him a GM title/job. realistically though, Tulsky is a dorky data guy. Extremely important to this front office, more so than Waddell IMO, but he’s not a people guy, negotiator, etc. that’ll be Willy, whatever the titles wind up being. Would be very surprised if we went outside the org to replace Don. honestly I’ll miss Don, I don’t think this alters our trajectory whatsoever but I came to like him a lot here, as skeptical as I was at first

Agreed but I’m not going to root against him or anything. Just don’t care that much and I’ve moved on from our disastrous 2023