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Florida Panthers October Report Cards

By Cal Friedman

SUNRISE, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 08: Florida Panthers mascot Stanley C. Panther waves a flag prior to the game between the Florida Panthers and the Carolina Hurricanes at BB&T Center on October 08, 2019 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
SUNRISE, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 08: Florida Panthers mascot Stanley C. Panther waves a flag prior to the game between the Florida Panthers and the Carolina Hurricanes at BB&T Center on October 08, 2019 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) /
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With the first full month of the season done, the Florida Panthers stand at a convincing, yet frustrating 6-4-4, putting the Panthers at third in the Atlantic.

DENVER, COLORADO – OCTOBER 30: Aleksander Barkov #16 of the Florida Panthers celebrates with teammates Keith Yandle #3, Jonathan Huberdeau #11, Evgenii Dadonov #63, and Mike Hoffman #68 after scoring a goal against the Colorado Avalanche at the Pepsi Center on October 30, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. The Panthers defeated the Avalanche 4-3 in overtime. (Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images)
DENVER, COLORADO – OCTOBER 30: Aleksander Barkov #16 of the Florida Panthers celebrates with teammates Keith Yandle #3, Jonathan Huberdeau #11, Evgenii Dadonov #63, and Mike Hoffman #68 after scoring a goal against the Colorado Avalanche at the Pepsi Center on October 30, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. The Panthers defeated the Avalanche 4-3 in overtime. (Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images) /

The Florida Panthers‘ first month under new Head Coach Joel Quenneville has come with multiple different emotions and experiments. There were highs, such as beating quality opponents like Tampa Bay and Nashville. There were also plenty of lows, mostly the three separate shootout losses the Panthers suffered to opponents that the Cats need to be beating.

Overall, the issues from teams past weren’t going to fix themselves within one month, but there are some noticeable worries within the Panthers. Without going too in-depth with them, the defensive issues are less frequent, but still occurring, and there are certain forwards really struggling to remain consistent at even strength.

In honor of the first month of the season coming to a close, as well as midterm studying for college students, let’s go through and grade the players for their performances in the month.

Before starting, let me say that skaters that have played less than five games (Brian Boyle, Henrik Borgstrom, Riley Stillman) will be exempt from this list. They simply just don’t have enough game time to really grade. Also, note that a factor of some of these grades will be based on expectations a player had going into this month.

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