Dave Hyde

Fort Lauderdale

Sports Columnist at South Florida Sun Sentinel

South Florida Sun-Sentinel columnist. Author of "Swagger," "Still Perfect" and "1968." Elementary school kids and lawyers over 45 want my job.

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Dave Hyde: Marchand The Great delivers in double overtime, Panthers survive Game 2

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON -— Who would you pick? Whose name would you call? The night needed a hero, and the game needed an ending, and there the Florida Panthers players sat in the locker room before the second overtime period early Saturday morning deciding who would score the winning goal for them. That’s how they dealt with the pressure of Game 2. It’s how they ignored the heartache of having the game won until the final seconds of regulation.
Florida Panthers aware of Edmonton's ability to 'go nuclear'

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — They have a phrase in Edmonton for putting top scorers Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on the ice together: Going nuclear. The Panthers were well aware of it ahead of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Friday night. The Oilers went nuclear starting in the third period of Game 1 to come back from a 3-2 deficit and win in overtime 4-3. Edmonton outshot the Panthers 10-2 in the more than nine minutes McDavid, Draisaitl and Corey Perry were on the same line.
Panthers aware of Edmonton’s ability to ‘go nuclear;’ Nosek talks of ‘mistake’

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — They have a phrase in Edmonton for putting top scorers Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on the ice together: Going nuclear. The Panthers were well aware of it ahead of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Friday night. The Oilers went nuclear starting in the third period of Game 1 to come back from a 3-2 deficit and win in overtime 4-3. AdvertisementEdmonton outshot the Panthers 10-2 in the more than nine minutes McDavid, Draisaitl and Corey Perry were on the same line.
Dave Hyde: It’s hockey hell in Edmonton — just how the Panthers usually thrive

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — There again will be thousands of fans outside the Rogers Place cheering in a plaza Friday night. A horn section at one end of the arena again won’t be heard sometimes over arena’s relentless noise. A fan will again hold up a sign, “SERGEI,” to signal it’s time to serenade Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. “Seeer-geeeeei!” the crowd will chant. Sometimes, during the half-second’s lull in that chant, a sub-chorus will sound.
Dave Hyde: It’s hockey hell in Edmonton - just how the Panthers usually thrive

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — There again will be thousands of fans outside the Rogers Place cheering in a plaza Friday night. A horn section at one end of the arena again won’t be heard sometimes over arena’s relentless noise. A fan will again hold up a sign, “SERGEI,” to signal it’s time to serenade Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. Advertisement“Seeer-geeeeei!” the crowd will chant. Sometimes, during the half-second’s lull in that chant, a sub-chorus will sound.
Dave Hyde: A Game 1 that suddenly, mistakenly wasn’t for Florida Panthers

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — An uncharacteristic change. An accidental penalty. A moment between the sport’s best player and his team’s top scorer. Just like that, the magic was on the other side from the Florida Panthers this first night of the Stanley Cup Final. Just like that, Game 1 was Edmonton’s to ride with a 4-3 overtime win Wednesday night in an uncorked the Rogers Place crowd.
Connor McDavid again poses big challenge; Panthers’ key forward out for Game 1

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — If it all seems familiar, this Stanley Cup Final rematch, consider the Florida Panthers walking into the Rogers Center to find the same set-up in the locker room, same look around the arena and many of the same opponents waiting in Game 1 on Wednesday night. “You get flashbacks from last year,’’ Panthers center Anton Lundell said. “Same teams in the final. A lot of the same guys you played against.”The Panthers have 14 players who played in last year’s final. Edmonton has 16.
Connor McDavid again poses big challenge; Panthers’ key forward out for Game 1

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — If it all seems familiar, this Stanley Cup Final rematch, consider the Florida Panthers walking into the Rogers Center to find the same set-up in the locker room, same look around the arena and many of the same opponents waiting in Game 1 on Wednesday night. “You get flashbacks from last year,’’ Panthers center Anton Lundell said. “Same teams in the final. A lot of the same guys you played against.”AdvertisementThe Panthers have 14 players who played in last year’s final. Edmonton has 16.
Dave Hyde: The Final truth — Panthers open talk of dynasty with win

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON -— Outside the space-age-silver Rogers Place, just so you know nothing was forgotten this past year, there’s a sign to see: “The pain only increases the passion.”Inside the arena Tuesday, the deliverers of that pain, the Florida Panthers felt it all coming back again. That noise. Those moments. “Like a wave through the body,” Evan Rodrigues called it, looking down at his hand. “You feel it in your fingertips. Yeah, you’re starting to realize where you are.”Finally, it’s the finals.
Edmonton's Connor McDavid 'on a mission' to win first Stanley Cup

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Dave Hyde

EDMONTON — Last June, Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk leaned toward Edmonton’s Connor McDavid in the handshake line after Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final and said, “Hopefully, we’ll see you next year.”Next year is now. Game 1 of the final is Wednesday night in the Rogers Center. McDavid sat inside the arena Tuesday for the NHL’s media day near an oversized picture of Tkachuk celebrating with the Cup last year and was asked about that line from the Panthers star.