The Latest Breaking News from Aaron Ekblad

The Florida Panthers will be without their top defenseman for the foreseeable future.

Early in the third period Saturday, the Florida Panthers maneuvered around a pair of penalties called against them within a 14-second span. They held the Buffalo Sabres scoreless for 1:23 while Buffalo played with a 4-on-3 advantage, then 21 seconds with the Sabres playing 5-on-3, and then 14 more seconds…

The Florida Panthers were all but doomed. There were less three minutes separating them from a near-insurmountable series deficit and, with no goaltender in their net and an extra skater on the ice, they were one shot away from overtime or one away from an almost-certain Game 4 loss to…

SUNRISE, Fla. — If the Florida Panthers couldn’t see an awful end approaching, the desperate fans packed inside FLA Live Arena on Thursday certainly could, groaning at every misplayed puck and blown power-play chance for more than 15 minutes in the first period until, finally, there was relief. Later, there…

Andrew Brunette did not know what was going to come next. It was a feeling he had before: When he retired from the NHL after 1,110 games and 268 goals in 2013, he thought about coaching, going to work in a front office or maybe even getting on television —…

Tuesday turned out to be a great day for the Florida Panthers.

Bill Zito, at least as far as he can recall, had not made a game-time trip into the Florida Panthers’ dressing room all season, but he had a headache right before the puck dropped on the Panthers’ game against the Anaheim Ducks on Friday, so he happened to make his…

Almost exactly a year after his season ended because of an ankle injury, Aaron Ekblad was again down on the ice Friday and unable to put any weight on one of his legs as he tried to get back to the Florida Panthers’ bench.