- Florida unveiled a new center ice logo at Amerant Bank Arena on Thursday, scrapping the Stanley Cup design it used the last two seasons
- The panther head now fills the entire circle, striped in red and navy
- Read below for the first look, what the striping is hinting at, and when fans get to see it in person
The Stanley Cup is off the ice in Sunrise.
Florida unveiled its new center ice logo at Amerant Bank Arena on Thursday, and the inner bowl of the Cup that sat there the past two years is gone. The Panthers skated on that design through back-to-back championships in 2024 and 2025. They missed the playoffs last spring, so the trophy came off the paint.
Check out the first look the team posted:
What replaced it is not a normal rink. Florida dropped the traditional shield and filled the whole circle with its primary panther head, striped in red and navy, with AMERANT BANK ARENA wrapped around the outside in both colors.
That striping might be a tell. George Richards of Florida Hockey Now pointed out it matches the team’s leaked “pink lemonade” Hometown Remix jersey, with the ice version done in Florida’s usual colors instead. Nothing official on those sweaters yet.
Fans get their first live look Sunday, when the Panthers host Carolina at 7 p.m. in the first of four preseason games. Florida opened camp Thursday at its Fort Lauderdale practice facility. The games that count start Sept. 29 in Raleigh, where the Hurricanes raise their banner with the Panthers standing there watching.
Sunrise is not the only building getting repainted this week. Toronto put its 1927 crest at centre ice for the franchise’s 100th season, a throwback that surfaced later Thursday:
San Jose got there first. The Sharks flooded their entire circle with a teal gradient at SAP Center on Wednesday and laid the shark-and-stick logo over it in white:
Three teams, three new center ice looks, two days. Florida’s is the one that changed the most, and it is the only one that had a Stanley Cup on it to give up.
