Opportunistic Verhaeghe, Duclair join Barkov on Florida Panthers top line

Giving a line a nickname is one of hockey’s great traditions. For the Florida Panthers, it is a little premature to give their new top line any sort of monicker.

After all, the season will not even start until Sunday night when the Chicago Blackhawks visit BB&T Center.

Secondly, we do not even know if the line we have been seeing in practice and in scrimmages will be Florida’s top trio.

Here is what we know: For the past few days, the Panthers have been running a revamped top six.

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With Evgenii Dadonov and Mike Hoffman gone, we knew the Panthers had some work to do within their top six.

Who would go where and with whom?