Look Who's Back?

The Panthers announced their roster for rookie camp in Kitchener, Ontario, and it appears the team has a new coach.

According to the press release, Jacques Martin is back as both the team's coach and general manager.

“We are excited to be participating again in our annual Rookie Camp in a great city like Kitchener,” said Panthers General Manager and Head Coach Jacques Martin (they put this in bold, not me). “We have a lot of great young talent this year and this camp gives all four teams a great opportunity to assess their younger players.”

Of course this was just a typo, as everyone knows. And the goof was caught and corrected very quickly.

All kidding aside, new Rochester coach Benoit Groulx is going to run the rookie camp, with JM and Peter DeBoer close by. Should be a fun couple of days up in Kitch, a town I found to be pretty cool in my travels up there this summer.

For those fans up north who want to see some of the Panthers top prospects practice and play other teams, this is a good opportunity to do so. All workouts and games are going to be at the Kitchener Auditorium, home of the Rangers. Here's the sked. Have fun!

Sept. 12 – Practice, 2-4 p.m.

Sept. 13 – Florida vs. Ottawa, 2 p.m.

Sept. 14 – Florida vs. Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

Sept. 15 – Florida vs. Toronto, 7 p.m.

-- Thanks to all of those who have voted on the Top Panthers thread (which is below). Quite a few votes are in already (and we are less than 12 hours into the deal). Lot of votes for Roberto Luongo, John Vanbiesbrouck and Pavel Bure.

Plenty of time left to vote. As I wrote below, you have a month to vote on this group before I add and subtract a few names and we figure this whole thing out. But vote when you want; vote when you can.

Comments

[Big Slap Shot Bob]

Well, we knew it would be hard for Martin to stay off the bench! ;-)

[YearOftheRAT]

You honestly scared me that PD lost his job or something. Excited, I can smell hockey in a lil over a month, rookie camp is starting! Woohoo! Hey GR, is training camp going to be held in Colorado again this season? Or will it be down in S. Florida?

And BTW, you need to post more on the Official Panthers MSG Boards :D

Thanks, YOTR.

[Whale4ever]

As long as it doesn't say "GM/Coach Mike Keenan", I'll be okay.

[grichards]

YOTR: Training camp will open here at Incredible Ice before moving northwest to Calgary so they can have another insane preseason schedule. The team will be back in a week though, doing what they do in Coral Springs...

[Art]

My vote goes to Pavel Bure

[Art]

My vote goes to Pavel Bure

[Art]

My vote goes to Pavel Bure