But he has never been a head coach in the National Hockey League before.
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The Panthers lost to the New York Islanders in six games in the Eastern Conference First Round but outplayed the Islanders for much of the series. He talked to the whole team on Tuesday.
Gallant was led the Panthers to a 47-26-9 last season and a playoff berth. “We need to tweak a few things, ‘” Rowe said. Perhaps Viola is looking at those numbers and seeing some potential, but I wonder if the best answer was just to stick with Gallant over the long term. I love our room.
“I couldn’t stand watching him on the ice”, Gallant said.
The Panthers can only hope to replicate what resulted for the now-defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins. “We feel we have to move forward and that’s what we’re doing”.
“Quite frankly, our performance to this point hasn’t been good enough”.
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Gallant signed a contract extension in January that would have kept him in Florida through the 2018-19 season.
Did the Florida Panthers at least pay for the fare?
Behind two goals early to the Florida Panthers with No. 3 goalie Michael Leighton in net and down to 11 forwards with Jordan Staal injured, the Carolina Hurricanes could have come up with some easy excuses to lose their third straight.
The move was made in correlation with the firing of Gerard Gallant. And while all that was taken into consideration, it wasnt enough to get Gallant and assistant coach Mike Kelly who also was sacked any more time in Florida.
“They were pretty blunt”, center Vincent Trocheck said. With the team headed to Chicago, Gallant was forced to take his stuff off the team bus, call a taxi, and wait for his ride outside the arena in Raleigh as photographers snapped away.
Rowe coached the Portland Pirates at the start of the 2015-2016 season before he was promoted to the Panthers’ assistant general manager. Florida G Roberto Luongo has faced 1,000 shots in his career against Chicago and saved 930 of them while registering a 16-13-3 record. 3.
The 60-year old Rowe is largely responsible for putting together a team this offseason that management has deemed as underachieving.
For the Panthers, veteran Roberto Luongo is likely to make his 15th start of the season.
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“It’s just a matter of us kind of pulling it together”, he said.
