Panthers using school tragedy as motivation: ‘We have a mission and a goal’
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Listing off the factors that have helped the Florida Panthers turn around what looked to be another lost season, Dale Tallon points to speed, skill, camaraderie and youthful exuberance.
Those ones are easy to pick out.
But for Tallon, the club’s general manager, there’s something else to consider — namely Roberto Luongo’s emotional speech and the team’s response to the massacre at a high school situated about 20 kilometres from their arena.
A former student shot and killed 17 people, many of them teenagers, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.