Not in our wildest dreams did we expect anything other than a pummeling from an NHL 25/26 curtain-raiser pitting back-to-back champions Florida against a Chicago side that's had the league's second-worst record three seasons running. However, with skipper Aleksander Barkov and star winger Matthew Tkachuk out for the long-term, Paul Maurice is having to recalibrate the Panthers on the fly.

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Barkov and Tkachuk were two of the Panthers' three top scorers last term, but goals alone don't do them justic

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