The Florida Panthers opened up their rookie camp on Sunday and will take on the Nashville Predators rookies on Wednesday and Thursday, just before the actual camp opens up on Friday. I was able to find the entire training camp roster for the Panthers this afternoon, which had the rookie camp and the training camp roster combined, so I'll work with what I have here.The Panthers have picked up a number of camp invites, notably Tyler Arnason, who played in Europe and the AHL in 2010.
Looking at their roster posted below, it looks like the Panthers are going to be looking for a few defensemen out of this camp. Nathan Paetsch, Keaton Ellerby and Jason Garrison would be who I'm looking for to take those last three defense spots, but that's really just a guess at the moment.
| Forwards | Defense | Goalies |
| Stephen Weiss | Bryan McCabe | Tomas Vokoun |
| Michal Frolik | Dennis Wideman | Scott Clemmensen |
| Steve Reinprecht | Dimitri Kulikov | |
| Cory Stillman | Bryan Allen | |
| Radek Dvorak | Mike Weaver | |
| Rostislav Olesz | ||
| Steve Bernier | ||
| Marty Reasoner | ||
| Christopher Higgins | ||
| David Booth | ||
| Shawn Matthias | ||
| Byron Bitz | ||
| Michael Grabner | ||
| Mike Santorelli | Joe Callahan | Jacob Markstrom |
| Kendall McArdle | James DeLory | Marc Cheverie |
| Andrew Peters | Adam Comrie | Brian Foster |
| Evgeni Dadonov | Keaton Ellerby | Tyler Plante |
| Triston Grant | Jason Garrison | |
| Mark Cullen | Nathan Paetsch | |
| A.J. Jenks | Colby Robak | |
| Eric Selleck | Clay Wilson | |
| Bill Thomas | Michael Caruso | |
| Scott Timmins | T.J. Fast | |
| Michal Repik | Benjamin Gallacher | |
| Tyler Arnason | Erik Gudbranson | |
| Alain Berger | Carl Hudson | |
| Josh Birkholz | Mike Kostka | |
| Brady Calla | Alex Petrovic | |
| Chris Clackson | Hayden Rintoul | |
| Yannick Dube | ||
| Mike Duco | ||
| Corey Durocher | ||
| Adrian Foster | ||
| Quinton Howden | ||
| Zach Hyman | ||
| John McFarland | ||
| Brody Sutter | ||
| Mike Vaskivuo | ||
| Garrett Wilson |
The Panthers are definitely a budget team for the time being, but as they build through the draft and move along the lines of building a team that can make a run for the playoffs, I imagine that will change. Currently, I have the Panthers with 20 signed players on the top half of their roster, plus two buyouts and they all come in at annual cap hit of $48.2 million, safely inside the confines of the salary cap ceiling and floor. I don't think the Panthers have much else up their sleeve at the moment, so this should be a good number to work with this year.
The one thing that I see when I look at the Panthers roster is that is resembles more of a patchwork quilt, with a lot of pieces picked from other teams and assembled together to make their own squad. The Southeast Division is going to be wide open, so the Panthers should still be able to use some of their natural talents to score some goals, but I'm not sure how well that will translate into winning games.
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