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NHL Off-Season Outlook: Florida Panthers
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That is the newest in THN.com’s ongoing evaluation of the low season plans for every NHL crew, At this time, we’re trying on the Florida Panthers.
2021-22 File: 58-18-6
End In The Atlantic Division: 1st
Wage Cap House Accessible (As Per CapFriendly.com): $774,166
Restricted Free Brokers: None
Unrestricted Free Brokers: Noel Acciari, F; Claude Giroux, F; Maim Mamin, F; Mason Marchment, F; Joe Thornton, F; Ben Chiarot, D; Robert Hagg, D; Petteri Lindbohm, D Markus Nutivaara, D
What Florida Has: A lineup that produced the NHL’s finest regular-season file this previous season; famous person forwards in Aleksander Barkov and Jonathan Huberdeau; an skilled new head coach in Paul Maurice; a Grade-A primary line in Barkov Huberdeau and Sam Reinhart; terrific secondary scoring from forwards Carter Verhaeghe, Sam Bennett and Anton Lundell; depth on the blueline and in web, with defensemen Aaron Ekblad, MacKenzine Weegar, Gustav Forsling, and Brandon Montour, and goalies Sergei Bobrovsky and Spencer Knight; the league’s most potent offense at a median of 4.11 goals-for-per-game, 25 objectives greater than the next-most-potent squad
What Florida Wants: A turnaround on their penalty kill, which, at 79.5 % effectiveness, was ranked simply sixteenth within the league final season, and twelfth out of 16 playoff groups at 71.8 %; wage cap flexibility, and sufficient low season change to have an opportunity at bringing again unrestricted free agent star ahead and commerce deadline acquisition Claude Giroux, in addition to having a shot at younger ahead and UFA Mason Marchment, who generated 18 objectives and 47 factors in 54 video games final 12 months; an improved playoff efficiency from Bobrovsky, who had a pedestrian .910 save proportion within the 2022 post-season
What’s Lifelike For Florida Subsequent Season: Being the very best crew within the common season final 12 months, there’s nowhere to go however down for the Panthers, however GM Invoice Zito has locked in nearly all members of the 2021-22 roster, and now he’s challenged to open up some cap room with the intention to retain one or each of Giroux and Marchment, which received’t be straightforward in any respect.
Nonetheless, Florida has a particularly expert lineup, and a model new head coach in Paul Maurice, one in all hockey’s most revered bench bosses round. Maurice takes over for interim head coach Andrew Brunette, who didn’t battle in his 75 video games operating the crew final 12 months, however who doesn’t have the huge vary of expertise Maurice has. The expectations on Maurice will probably be (a) instant, and (b) very excessive. Nothing lower than an look within the Jap Convention Remaining will suffice for Maurice, who has gotten to that stage thrice in his teaching profession.
The strain isn’t solely on Maurice. His veterans lastly made it out of the primary spherical of the Stanley Cup playoffs final spring, however the best way they had been steamrolled and swept by their arch-rivals in Tampa Bay in Spherical Two left a bitter style within the mouths of administration, possession and followers. It wasn’t solely that the Panthers misplaced to the Bolts, it was the best way they misplaced that was deflating to the group: in two of the 4 video games, Bobrovsky allowed a complete of 9 objectives; and in the entire video games, Florida’s mighty offense was restricted to a complete of three objectives. They had been eradicated in a 2-0 shutout, underscoring how completely their finest gamers had been outplayed by Tampa’s high gamers.
Therein lies the problem for Zito this summer season. He can’t commerce the 33-year-old Bobrovsky, whose team-high wage cap hit of $10.5 million has 4 years remaining. He can’t unload extra first-round draft picks, as he’s already dealt Florida’s first-rounders within the 2023 and 2024 drafts. So, any strikes he makes will probably be authentic expertise – as an example, veteran winger Patric Hornqvist, who’s within the remaining 12 months of his contract and has a cap hit of $5.3 million – traded away to take a run at Giroux and/or Marchment.
In the end, the Panthers are prone to end the 2022-23 marketing campaign with a barely poorer file, however they’re positively a high-seed playoff crew. Maurice’s activity is evident, and he and his gamers know there’s nothing that will probably be thought of a significant win if it could possibly’t be replicated within the playoffs.
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Virginia boy charged with making swatting calls to Florida schools
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An 11-year-Virginia boy has been charged in Florida with calling in more than 20 bomb or shooting threats to schools and other places, authorities said Thursday.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said that authorities worked hard to find the caller before the school year resumes.
“This kid’s behavior was escalating and becoming more dangerous,” Staly said. “I’m glad we got him before he escalated out of control and hurt someone.”
Swatting is slang for making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to send a SWAT team or other armed police officers to a particular place.
Flagler County emergency services initially received a bomb threat at Buddy Taylor Middle School on May 14, officials said. Additional threats were made between then and May 22.
Investigators tracked the calls to a home in Henrico County, Virginia, just outside Richmond. Local deputies searched the home this month, and the 11-year-old boy who lived there admitted to placing the Florida swatting calls, as well as a threat made to the Maryland State House, authorities said. Investigators later determined that the boy also made swatting calls in Nebraska, Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee and Alaska.
The boy faces 29 felony counts and 14 misdemeanors, officials said. He’s being held in a Virginia juvenile detention facility while Florida officials arrange for his extradition. Investigators didn’t immediately say whether the boy had a connection to Florida.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested in Florida in May, several days after the initial call, for making a copycat threat to Buddy Taylor Middle School.
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Is there a sunken nuclear bomb near Florida? Here’s what to know
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TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. – Off the coast of Georgia, a massive bomb potentially sits in the water after having been flown out from Florida decades prior.
According to NPR, the whole incident began in 1958 when a B-47 bomber plane took off from Homestead AFB in Florida with the 7,600-pound nuclear bomb in tow, heading out to meet up with another bomber for a training exercise.
HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
The plan was to reportedly simulate an attack on the Soviet Union as part of the exercise, and everything was going well — until another training mission mistakenly crashed into the B-47 carrying the bomb.
As a result, the pilot chose to let loose the bomb over the water off Tybee Island in Georgia before making an emergency landing in a nearby swamp.
The bomb didn’t go off even after dropping into the ocean below, though that could be because the nuclear material needed to set such bombs off was typically kept separate from the weapon until it was needed, the BBC reports.
DID THEY FIND IT?
Federal officials spent over two weeks searching for the bomb in the aftermath, but it was ultimately determined to be irretrievable.
While a receipt written by the pilot shows that the necessary capsule wasn’t added to the bomb before the training exercise — meaning it wouldn’t be at a huge risk of detonation — other federal officials have claimed otherwise, such as a former Assistant Secretary of Defense W.J. Howard, who claimed that the bomb was “complete.”
“He concluded that despite our best efforts, the possibility of an accidental nuclear explosion still existed,” a declassified report reads.
Nowadays, the bomb is thought to be covered by several feet of silt on the seabed, but if the explosives within are still intact, it could pose a major hazard to the environment. As such, federal officials have determined that it should be left undisturbed — even by further recovery attempts.
CAN AN ATOMIC BOMB GO OFF UNDERWATER?
If it’s actually off the coast of Tybee Island, then yes: the bomb can still detonate, even underwater.
In 1946, the U.S. tested an atomic bomb at the Bikini Atoll — in the Pacific Ocean far southwest of Hawaii — by suspending it below several ships filled with pigs and rats.
After it was set off underwater, nearly all of the animals died, either thanks to the initial explosion or from the radiation poisoning afterward. And the area is still irradiated to this day.
WHAT HAPPENS IF IT DETONATES?
For starters: it doesn’t appear as likely that the bomb will explode.
While Howard initially claimed the bomb was complete, a military spokesman told The Atlantic in 2001 that they’d spoken with him, and “he agreed that his memo was in error.”
But if the bomb did manage to get outfitted with a plutonium trigger and detonated, it would erupt into an explosion with a mile-wide radius — and thermal radiation reaching 10 times that distance, according to the Savannah Morning News.
That would no doubt cause havoc within the immediate proximity, but on the bright side, Tybee Island is well over 100 miles (roughly a two-hour drive) from Florida’s border. This means Florida residents have little to fear from the direct impacts of such an explosion.
So you can sleep tight knowing you’re not likely to find yourself on the worse end of a nuclear weapon.
That being said, there are still plenty of other scary things in Florida to keep you up at night.
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Trulieve adds $5M to recreational marijuana campaign in Florida
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The medical cannabis company Trulieve has contributed another $5 million to a campaign to allow recreational marijuana in Florida, according to a newly filed finance report.
The company made the contribution on July 15 to the Smart & Safe Florida political committee, which is leading efforts to pass a recreational marijuana initiative on the November ballot.
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According to a state Division of Elections database, Trulieve had contributed about $60.39 million to the committee as of July 19.
The committee raised a total of $66.475 million in cash and nearly $129,000 in in-kind contributions, and it spent $53.963 million.
The initiative, which will appear on the ballot as Amendment 3, says, in part, that it would allow “adults 21 years or older to possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for nonmedical personal consumption by smoking, ingestion, or otherwise.”
Voters in 2016 passed a constitutional amendment that allowed medical marijuana.
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