Florida Panthers Milestones

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Order these Florida Panthers franchise moments by the year they happened. Drag or tap it onto the line

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How the Florida Panthers history timeline game works

You're putting the Panthers' story in order, one milestone at a time, with a short description printed below every title. One moment is already on the timeline with its year showing. As each card arrives, pick the gap where you think it falls among the moments placed so far. A correct choice reveals the year. A miss still moves the card into its rightful place, but it takes one of your three lives.

This is a young franchise, so the cards sit close together and very little separates many of them. Expect early surprises, a long rebuild built on draft picks and a late surge to the top of the league. Drafts are the trickiest cards here: the core players arrived in quick succession, and the descriptions won't tell you who came first. It helps to think about who was already a veteran when the next big name showed up.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 21 of the 21 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Franchise founded South Florida landed an NHL expansion club owned by Blockbuster magnate Wayne Huizenga
Record-setting debut season The expansion Panthers stunned the league by nearly making the playoffs in their very first year
Year of the Rat A Cinderella run behind flung plastic rats carried the young team all the way to the Stanley Cup Final
Moved to Sunrise The Panthers left Miami Arena for a brand-new building in the suburbs
Acquired Pavel Bure The 'Russian Rocket' arrived in a trade from Vancouver
Acquired Roberto Luongo Florida landed the young goaltender in a deal with the Islanders
Bure's scoring crown The winger won his second straight Rocket Richard Trophy with 59 goals
Traded Luongo away In a widely panned deal, the Panthers shipped their young goalie to Vancouver
Drafted Jonathan Huberdeau Florida took the winger third overall
Ended the playoff drought A division title snapped a decade without a postseason berth
Drafted Aleksander Barkov Florida selected the Finnish center second overall
Drafted Aaron Ekblad The Panthers used the first overall pick on the future Calder-winning defenceman
Acquired Jaromir Jagr The veteran superstar joined Florida in a midseason trade
Won the Atlantic Division A franchise-record points total delivered a division crown
Barkov named captain The center was handed the C as the youngest captain in team history
Signed Bobrovsky and Quenneville Florida hired a Cup-winning coach and inked a star goalie to a huge deal
Retired Luongo's No. 1 The Panthers raised the goaltender's number, the first ever sent to their rafters
Presidents' Trophy and Tkachuk Florida finished first overall, then swung a blockbuster to add Matthew Tkachuk
Reached the Cup Final As an eighth seed, the Panthers stormed to the Final before losing to Vegas
Won their first Stanley Cup Florida beat Edmonton in seven games for the first championship in franchise history
Repeated as champions The Panthers defeated the Oilers again to capture back-to-back titles