Florida Panthers 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs Betting
Last year, the Florida Panthers made the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in franchise history. Their biggest moment in taking the 2023 Eastern Conference championship was the first-round upset of the Boston Bruins, who were coming off the best regular season in NHL history. Florida was in the hunt for the top seed in the Eastern Conference until the final week of the season. However, as the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs begin, Florida could be without two of its best players: D Aaron Ekblad and C Carter Verhaeghe.
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Florida Panthers Team Overview
This season, the Florida Panthers are 52-24-6 straight up and 30-49 over/under the total. Also, Florida is 3rd in the Eastern Conference playoff standings. Florida is four points behind the New York Ranger in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Late on, Florida has covered five out of their last six games. At the same time, the Panthers have gone over the total in one of its previous six matchups.
Florida has NHL rankings of 12th for goals scored and 8th for power play efficiency. In comparison, on defense, the Panthers have NHL rankings of 1st for goals against and 6th for penalty killing.
C Sam Reinhart has 57 goals, 37 assists, 94 points, and a +29. G Sergei Bobrovsky has a 2.37 goals against average, a .915 save percentage, a record of 36-17-4, and six shutouts.
Tampa Bay Lightning Team Overview
This season, the Tampa Bay Lightning are 45-29-8 straight up and 39-38-5 over/under the total. Also, Tampa Bay is 6th in the Eastern Conference playoff standings. Tampa Bay is 16 points behind the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Late on, Tampa Bay has covered two out of their last six games. While the Lightning has gone under the total in one of its previous seven matchups.
Tampa Bay has NHL rankings of 5th for goals scored and 1st for power play efficiency. In comparison on defense, the Lightning have NHL rankings of 22nd for goals against and 5th for penalty killing.
RW Nikita Kucherov leads Tampa Bay with 44 goals, 100 assists, 44 points and a +8. G Andrei Vasilevskiy has a 2.90 goals against average, a .900 save percentage, a record of 30-20-4, and two shutouts.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 6)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2023-24 |
82 |
52 |
24 |
1st, Atlantic |
TBD |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
42 |
32 |
4th, Atlantic |
Lost in Stanley Cup Finals, 1–4 (Golden Knights) |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
58 |
18 |
1st, Atlantic |
Lost in Second Round, 0–4 (Lightning) |
| 2020–21 |
56 |
37 |
14 |
2nd, Central |
Lost in First Round, 2–4 (Lightning) |
| 2019–20 |
69 |
35 |
26 |
4th, Atlantic |
Lost in Qualifying Round, 1–3 (Islanders) |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
36 |
32 |
5th, Atlantic |
Did not qualify |
Florida Panthers History
The Panthers were founded as a 1993-94 expansion team with the-then Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. They made the Stanley Cup Final in their third season but have never made it back. Since 2000, the Panthers have only five postseason appearances. Owner Vincent Viola has spent several years and a lot of money trying to dig the franchise out of the muck.
Attendance for the Panthers has been low for most of the past two decades but has increased with their new success. Like the rest of the NHL, Florida has had to navigate the pandemic issues that have kept attendance down in many markets, even after restrictions loosened. The pandemic came at the worst possible time for the Panthers as they were finally starting to get really good.
The Panthers' years of losing opened up the opportunity for several years of high draft choices. And for the past two seasons, we have seen improvements based on that new blood. Florida had a golden opportunity in the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs to win over new fans and build a higher customer base. It helps that they play an exciting and winning style of hockey. The Panthers are easy on the eyes as one of the NHL’s most entertaining teams.
But Florida flopped badly in the second round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Help arrived that summer with the arrival of power forward Keith Tkachuk and new head coach Paul Maurice.
And a berth in the Stanley Cup Final made 2023 a year to remember.
NHL Teams
Eastern Conference - Atlantic
Eastern Conference - Metropolitan
Western Conference - Central
Western Conference - Pacific
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