Welcome into the Warpath, your weekly official visit to everything Florida State recruiting and transfer portal news.

I can say that again, finally, Matt, as we are now neck deep into the basketball transfer portal window.

Nick Carlisle here with Matt Lassair, as always on a weekly warpath.

Matt, how are you doing, buddy? Good to see you.

Good, man. One question for you. I'm excited for something

it starts this weekend. It's called playoff hockey. How are the Panthers looking this year? Are they

going to repeat? Oh, my heart. Straight out of the gate, man. That's not fair. That's not fair.

But I did see that Sasha Barkov is planning on playing an international tournament

after missing an entire season due to an ACL and MCL Spring. So that made me feel really good

about myself. It's a very weird position to be in, and we won't spend much time on it, but it's a very

weird position to be in as a Florida Panthers fan because I almost wanted the team to lose in order

to generate a draft

pick for complicated reasons.

We had a top 10 protected, top 10 projected or protected, protected draft pick.

And now because we're winning, because these guys don't have any quit in them,

which is obviously fantastic.

That's why I love them.

We're not getting that pick now, I don't think.

Or we're hovering on the edge there.

So I'm just so happy for no.

I think you owe me another Warpath episode with a Panthers jersey on because I think we two owed you.

Maybe.

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