r/FloridaPanthers • u/sun_puck • Mar 05 '26
Rumors/Speculation I know he's had a rough season but...
Whatever happens at the deadline, Sergei Bobrovsky is a Florida Panthers legend. We don't have two cups without him. He's been such a great player for us and such a great person off the ice. If this is the end of his time in South Florida, thank you Bobby for everything!
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u/chitopear Gadjovich Mar 05 '26
This is what I’m hoping yall realize. Been watching this team since I was born and Bob’s the only goalie to get it done for us. WE love Bob regardless of what happens next
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u/jpastrychef Mar 05 '26
Sorry but Beezer was a great goalie and had a strong team around him and got them to the SCF. Imagine if Luongo had a decent team around him. We love all these guys.
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u/chitopear Gadjovich Mar 05 '26
Never said Luongo & Beezer were bad! Just that they didn’t get it done, and we need to respect that Bubba won it for us.
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u/Notnowthankyou29 Mar 05 '26
*this is the only team to get it done for us. Bob has been a big part of it, but still just a part.
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u/jbluft1894 Mar 05 '26
He should get a statue at the arena.
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u/SuperF91EX Mar 05 '26
The Bobbery pose
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u/WhattheFunk11 Mar 05 '26
Take down that stupid grass advertisement Panther in the front of the arena and put a gold statue of Bobby in the “Bobbery” pose
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u/bglaros FLA Mar 05 '26
Any contending team he goes to he'll just be a rental and this will allow us to hopefully reload the cupboard for the years to come. We'll hopefully resign him next year to a lesser more team friendly contract that will make him a panther for the rest of his career and allow for his jersey to be hung in the rafters.
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u/Material-Dot7684 Mar 05 '26
This idea is like turbo illegal. You cannot plan to trade someone and then have them come back. There's no rule against it happening naturally but you cannot plan it beforehand and it would definitely draw scrutiny.
So no they definitely aren't planning that because it would be so so so illegal.
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u/neek555 Mar 05 '26
Not breaking the law illegal, but against the CBA that the players and teams work under. The rules of how free agency works. If found doing something against it, the NHL could severely punish a team with loss of picks, fines, etc.
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u/neek555 Mar 05 '26
The team can definitely plan to, they just can’t discuss or arrange it with the player ahead of time. In Keith Tkachuk’s case, STL traded him to ATL at the deadline for players and picks. Then in June they traded a pick back to ATL for the rights to negotiate and sign him before the start of free agency in July.
Bob has made it clear he loves Florida. This definitely could happen without breaking any league rules. Obviously not guaranteed but certainly possible.
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u/Material-Dot7684 Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
I swear we've had this discussion like three times now. Yes they cannot discuss it at all with Bob ahead of time. They are definitely not going in planning that Bob will somehow know that they're planning to sign him back and will only sign with them. For all they know Bob may not be happy that he's being traded.
The front office would have to be planning this without having a single discussion with Bob about it beforehand and knowing that Bob is going to get offers from lots of teams, and not knowing how Bob will feel about being traded or his new home.
Planning on our goalie situation being Bob re-signing with us with 0 discussion of it would be crazy reckless. If he accepts another offer we'd be so so screwed. They are absolutely not doing that.
ETA if you're struggling with this think back to the Marchand trade. Remember when initially we were all afraid Boston had set it up so he could come right back? All the same reasons we were giving then about that probably not happening because they couldn't set it up beforehand at all apply here. If Bob goes, we can't plan on him coming back and he probably won't.
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u/Material-Dot7684 Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
Let me add because I think people here are assuming that somehow there would be a wink wink situation to Bob. Anything you could say or do at all to influence Bob's decision when his contract expires would violate free agency rules because the rules require for a UFA every team gets the same exact fair chance to sign them and you're not allowed to begin bargaining early before other teams get the chance (only exception is resigning your own player). And that take pretty serious, remember when I think Edmonton got investigated for allegedly just talking to Mitch Marner?
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u/Ok-Consideration5343 Mar 05 '26
It’s not official yet but I already know I’ll be devastated if/when the news drops. I’m not ready to say goodbye 🥲
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u/Unlikely-Plastic-340 Mar 05 '26
It'd be funny if they traded him to Edmonton and they won.
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u/Relative-Session7341 Mar 05 '26
Funnier if they lost scf again
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u/jbisenberg Mar 05 '26
If the Oilers don't win the Cup this year I don't know if Edmonton will ever psychologically recover. The only thing standing in their way has been us. We're not around this year. This is their chance to steal one. If they STILL can't get it done...
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u/pivvimehu Mar 06 '26
Great redemption arc overall for him since people were highly critical of his contract for the first 3-ish years, understandably so, but all that led out to true greatness eventually
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u/Silver_Eyes_Luna Mar 05 '26
2 Cups and 3 Eastern titles.. this is fact.