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[edit] List of Florida Panthers players

I have started a List of Florida Panthers players. When you add new players to the main Panthers article, could you aslo please add them to the list. Thanks! Masterhatch 10 August 2005

[edit] The rat story

Could we include info about the rats being thrown in-game during the 95-96 season? More info http://www.darsys.com/panth/pfaq.html fourth story down.

[edit] Current Squad

moved to article ccwaters 14:06, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Season by season record

Why was the season by season record removed? Other NHL team articles have them. Brandon W 13:12, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I put it back up, and don't know why it was taken down. Unless somone can give a good reason to remove it, I think it's best left on there. I also updted all of the stats for this past season and added a footnote that there are no more Ties, as of this past season.AriGold 13:19, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation requests

Regarding the addition of four citation requests to the 1996-98 portion of the article:

  • Stu Barnes was a highly popular member of the first few Florida Panther teams. This was not simply my opinion, this is fact, with the proof being in the immediate reaction of the fans, newspapers and radio immediately after the trade, but unfortunately there's not a paper trail. The further dissertation would have been the slope that the Panthers season took following that trade, but that would have been harder to prove. Neither The Miami Herald or the Sun Sentinel web-archives back to 1996 but if they did there would have been source material for it.
  • They WERE questionable moves at best. Chris Wells never panned out and was out of the league two yers later and Kirk Muller, who was brought in for the playoff stretch, scored 2 goals in 15 games.
  • I'm going to assume "mediocrity" is the word in question for a cite tag. The first two years, in spite doing better than most expansion teams, they were a sub-.500 team that didn't make the playoffs. The 5th year, they were 24-43-15, which is bad enough to not make the playoffs, but not bad enough to be considered the worst.
  • Bryan Murray's tenure as head coach was a dissapointment on paper and a disaster for anyone who lived through it. So again, to say it didn't aid matters is a bold understatement. It's not an NPOV violation if it's clear this was a bad team we're talking about. The winless streak being a citation for that in and of itself. So to cite-flag it is like asking for a source citation that the sun rises in the east.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wayman975 (talk • contribs) 13:35, 6 October, 2006 (UTC).

From Wikipedia's official guideline: The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. So unless you can provide good sources to verify these claims, they should not be included in the article. The {{fact}} tags let other editors know that references are needed. The other alternative would be just completely removing the sentences, but often it is better to wait a while to see if appropriate sources can be found. Also, it is unreasonable to state that there is no paper trail for newspaper articles about the trading of Barnes. They may not have the quick, 1-minute access like many online sources have, but trust me, sources can be found if they existed. --Muéro(talk/c) 17:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

And I did exactly what you asked me to do. I even went as far as to find citations that were in the preview-to-archive portion of the text so that it was in black and white. Based on that, there was no reason for the reversion. Wayman975 18:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I explained the reversion on your talk page. --Muéro(talk/c) 19:29, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nieuwendyk & Gelinas

Concerning future edits, with Nieuwendyk often injured/day-to-day; is Gelinas wearing an 'A' only in Nieuwendyks' absence? Or is Gelinas a 'fifth' alternate captain for the Panthers? (five alternates on a team are uncommon, though possible). GoodDay 15:57, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

It think I may have jinxed Nieuwenyk, with this edit question. Joe Nieuwendyk has announced his retirement today. GoodDay 01:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Florida-alternate.gif

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Fixed. Resolute 13:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

NO jersey section. This is important for a professional sports team. Also, the team mascot needs to be mentioned. Another thing is that their one and only Stanley Cup run is not detailed enough, imo. That post-season section (1996) needs to be larger and filled with more passion. Love each other, or perish. ~Auden 00:56, 10 August 2007 (UTC)