The immense challenge of threepeating as Stanley Cup champion got even more difficult for the Florida Panthers when they lost their captain and arguably most important player for the next 7-9 months to a knee injury.

Even without Aleksander Barkov , the Panthers have a chance to do something no NHL team has done in more than 40 years. And in between the rest of the league trying to stop their dynasty, the world's best hockey players will return to the Olympics for the first time in over a decade, fresh off the wildly successful 4 Nations Face-Off that reminded fans just how good the game is on the international stage.

“If you’re a hockey fan, it doesn’t get any better,” New York Rangers and U.S. Olympic team coach Mike Sullivan said. “It puts the sport that we love on display to th

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