Hounding report: Florida Panthers II

After a couple of low-number outings for the Boston Bruins and Phoenix Coyotes, the Florida Panthers' trip north to Tampa Bay last week was just what I needed. Not that my confidence was shaken, mind you, but it never hurts to have a solid day of hounding.

All told, I added another 21 autographs from a dozen players to the collection, getting more from a single team that we did from the Bruins and Coyotes combined.

Signing cards, shown above were:

Top row: Brian Campbell, Dan Ellis and Tomas Fleischmann;
Middle row: Tom Gilbert, Scott Gomez and Jonathan Huberdeau; and
Bottom row: Ed Jovanovski, Vincent Trocheck and Scott Upshall.

One of the highlights of the day, and likely the biggest reason for making the trip across Tampa Bay, was the recently acquired Roberto Luongo, who signed this McFarlane's SportsPick figurine commemorating Canada's gold medal in men's hockey at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver:

Two Panthers players also signed four cards each for me:

Brad Boyes

Dmitry Kulikov

Jovanovski also added to the Threads collection.

Hounding report: Florida Panthers

The Hockey Hounding Gods aligned the planets for me when the Florida Panthers, one of the best-signing teams in the NHL, opened the 2013-14 hockey-hounding campaign as the opponent in the Tampa Bay Lightning home opener earlier this month.

It's no surprise, to me at least, that I had what I considered a strong start, adding 31 autographs, including a puck (shown above) signed by Florida's Aleksander Barkov, the No. 3 overall pick at the 2013 Draft.

Hockey cards proved to be the platform of the day, as the first 30 were added to the stack. For the record, Panthers defenseman Marcel Goc signed the first two autographs of the campaign.

Signing four cards each were:

Sean Bergenheim, who is seldom, if ever, shy around a Sharpie;

Tomas Fleischmann, who also is pretty consistent in signing this many.

Other Panthers players signing cards were:

Top row: Brian Campbell, Scott Clemmensen, Tom Gilbert; and

Bottom row: Matt Gilroy, Marcel Goc and long-time toughie Scott Gomez;

Top row: Erik Gudbranson, Ed Jovanovski and Tomas Kopecky;

Bottom row: Dmitry Kulikov, Jacob Markstrom and Shawn Matthias;

A trio of toughies in Scottie Upshall, Kris Versteeg and Ryan Whitney.

Up next: A disappointing trip, in more ways than one, for the Los Angeles Kings.