Up front, the Panthers have Bennett (eight more seasons), Marchand (six), Aleksander Barkov (five), Anton Lundell (five), Sam Reinhart (seven), Matthew Tkachuk (five) and Carter Verhaeghe (eight). On defense, they have Ekblad (eight), Gustav Forsling (seven) and Seth Jones (five).

We kind of wax poetic about the team and the community they’ve become, and I think this is a great example of what it means to them.’