It has already been announced that last season’s champion team represented by Vilmanis and Uvja Balinskas beat Zemgus Girgenson’s new team Tampa Bay Lightning 2:1 (0:0, 1:0, 0:1, 1:0).
Vilmanis ended the match with 1+1 and the title of the first star of the game, while Balinskis scored an assist.
“We’re starting to see the power of a man in his game,” Morris said of the 20-year-old Wilman, who agreed to a three-year rookie contract with the Panthers in March. “We’re excited about him. He has a great shot and he does things on the ice that coaches can’t make better. It just has to be there and he has it.”
Before the start of the season, it was planned that Vilmanis would start the new season in the ranks of the “Panthers” farm club Charlotte “Checkers” in the American Hockey League (AHL), however, he remained in the lineup until the last week of the preseason.
Vilmanis played four games before the new season, in which he scored three goals and provided two assists, being one of the team’s most productive players.
Until the beginning of the season, the Florida team has only one test game left, in which the “Panthers” will meet the Los Angeles “Kings” on October 5. Last season’s champion team will start the new season on October 8 with a home game against the Boston “Bruins” hockey players.
The new NHL season will begin in Europe, where the New Jersey Devils will meet the Buffalo Sabers in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, as part of the Global Series on October 4 and 5. In North America, the main tournament games will start on October 8.
In the previous season, the Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup, beating the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in the final series.
2024-10-03 22:59:54