Panthers Opening Roster and Pre-Season Stats

Florida Panthers

1 - Fri Sept 19 vs Carolina W 9-2
2 - Sat Sept 20 vs Colorado (Ft. Collins, Co) L 4-7
3 - Fri Sept 26 at Anaheim T 4-4
4 - Sun Sept 28 at Tampa Bay L 2-3 (OT)
5 - Wed Oct 1 at Atlanta L 2-3
6 - Sat Oct 4 vs Tampa Bay W 3-2

Training Camp Roster:
Goalie Stats are Games Played - Minutes - Goals Against - Average
Skater Stats are Games Played - Goals - Assists
Last Column is which games played in coded to the schedule above

G 1 Roberto Luongo 3 - 150 - 6 - 2.40 (a) 1 4 6
31 Steve Shields 2 - 64 - 4 - 3.75 3 5 -
(stats with Boston)

D 4 Jay Bouwmeester 4 - 1 - 1 1 456
6 Andreas Lilja 5 - 0 - 1 23456
2 Lyle Odelein 4 - 0 - 0 3456
7 Pavel Trnka 1 - 0 - 0 2
(strained groin, indefinite)
5 Branislav Mezei 5 - 1 - 2 1 3456
34 Mathieu Biron 6 - 0 - 2 123456
26 Mike Van Ryn 6 - 2 - 4 123456

C 12 Olli Jokinen 4 - 4 - 2 1 456
17 Matt Cullen 4 - 0 - 0 1 456
56 Nathan Horton 4 - 3 - 1 1234
19 Byron Ritchie 3 - 0 - 1 23 6

LW 22 Kristian Huselius 4 - 2 - 2 1 456
18 Marcus Nilson 1 - 1 - 0 6
14 Niklas Hagman 5 - 1 - 2 23456
15 Eric Messier 5 - 1 - 4 1 3456
24 Darcy Hordichuk 5 - 2 - 0 123 56
20 Craig MacDonald 5 - 0 - 2 1 3456

RW 25 Viktor Kozlov 4 - 1 - 3 1 456
8 Valeri Bure 2 - 0 - 5 1 4
(injured-strained groin, d/d)
11 Mikael Samuelsson 5 - 0 - 0 1 3456
39 Ivan Novoseltsev 4 - 1 - 1 23 56

Injured Reserve:
D 28 Filip Novak
(sprained ankle, indefinite)
D - Kristian Kudroc
(unknown)
RW - David Morisset
(shoulder and ankle re-hab, indefinite)

Training Camp Re-assignments:
To AHL-San Antonio:
G - Travis Scott (1-29-3-6.21, 2), Simon Lajeunesse
D - Jeff Paul (1-0-0, 1), Lukas Krajicek, Kyle Rossiter (2-0-0, 12),
Kent Huskins, Grant McNeill, Michel Periard, Paul Elliott,
Darryl Andrews (Tryout)
C - Stephen Weiss (3-1-1, 235), Vaclav Nedorost, Mike Green
(1-0-0, 2), Petr Taticek, Janis Sprukts, Scott Kelman, Matt
Dzieduszycki, Greg Jacina (Tryout)
LW - Gregory Campbell, Eric Beaudoin (1-0-0, 1), Denis Shvidki
(1-0-0, 2), Max Birbraer, Ryan Jardine, Josh Olson, Mike
Amadeo (Tryout)
RW - Jaroslav Bednar (2-1-2, 23), Juraj Kolnik (2-1-1, 23), Lee
Goren (1-0-0, 2), Sean O'Connor

To ECHL-Augusta:
RW - Jonathan Gagnon (Tryout)

To Juniors:
D - Martin Lojek (OHL-Brampton), Jeremy Swanson (OHL-Barrie),
Martin Tuma (OHL-Sault Ste. Marie)
C - Kamil Kreps (OHL-Brampton), Dany Roussin (QMJHL-Rimouski)
LW - Stefan Meyer (WHL-Medicine Hat)
RW - Anthony Stewart (OHL-Kingston, 4-1-1, 1234), John Hecimovic
(OHL-Sarnia)

Players Released:
G - Stephen Valiquette (1-29-0-0.00, 3, stats with Edmonton), David
Guerrera (Tryout)
D - Todd Gill (1-0-0, 2), Petr Kadlec (Tryout)
RW - Jonas Hoglund (3-0-1, 345), Billy Tibbetts


Off-Season Player Transactions:
( 6/21) Traded a 2003-1st round draft pick and a 2003-2nd round draft
pick to Pittsburgh for RW-Mikael Samuelsson, a 2003-1st round
draft pick and a 2003-2nd round draft pick
( 6/21) Traded D-Ivan Majesky to Atlanta for a 2003-2nd round draft
pick
( 6/22) Traded a 2003-9th round draft pick to Chicago for D-Dimitri
Tolkunov
( 6/26) Claimed RW-Valeri Bure off waivers from St. Louis
( 7/ 3) Signed free agent D-Kristian Kudroc from Tampa Bay
( 7/ 4) Free agent RW-Pierre Dagenais signed by Montreal
( 7/11) Signed free agent LW-Max Birbraer from AHL-Albany
( 7/19) Traded LW-Peter Worrell and a 2004-2nd round draft pick to
Colorado for C-Vaclav Nedorost and LW-Eric Messier
( 7/20) Free agent RW-Rocky Thompson signed by Edmonton
( 7/24) Free agent D-Pascal Trepanier signed by Tampa Bay
( 7/25) Signed free agent RW-Lee Goren from Boston
( 7/29) Free agent D-Jamie Rivers signed by Detroit
( 8/ 6) Free agent G-Tyrone Garner signed by Germany-Stuttgart
( 8/12) Signed free agent G-Travis Scott from Los Angeles
( 8/13) Signed free agent LW-Craig MacDonald from Carolina
( 8/14) Signed free agent D-Kent Huskins from Chicago
( 8/19) Signed free agent D-Jeff Paul from Colorado
( 8/20) Signed free agent D-Todd Gill from Chicago
( 9/ 4) Signed free agent LW-Jonas Hoglund from Toronto
( 9/ 8) Free agent D-Dimitri Tolkunov signed by Russia-Yaroslavl
( 9/ 9) Signed free agent D-Lyle Odelein from Dallas
( 9/10) Traded C-Serge Payer to Ottawa for a 2004-9th round draft
pick
( 9/14) D-Paul Laus retired
(10/ 2) Released D-Todd Gill
(10/ 3) Players lost in waiver draft: G-Chris Mason (claimed by
Nashville) and G-Jani Hurme (claimed by Carolina)
(10/ 3) Claimed G-Steve Valiquette from Edmonton in waiver draft
(10/ 5) Traded future considerations to Boston for G-Steve Shields

Free Agents:
Unrestricted:
D-Igor Kravchuk, C-Andy Lundbohm, LW-Stephane Matteau,
RW-Jim Campbell

Restricted:
None