Get excited, Panthers fans.
Anton Lundell, who was selected by Florida with the 12th overall pick in this year’s draft, is already giving his new fans a glimpse of what to be excited for.
Playing for HIFK of the Finnish Elite League, Lundell notched a four-goal game in his first game back from injury. Impressively, he needed less than nine minutes of ice time to record the hatty, and then added another for good measure later in the game.
For our money, his third goal of the game — a coast-to-coast beauty — was the best of the bunch, but any time you score four in a game, they could all be garbage goals and nobody would complain.
With seven goals on the season now, Lundell ranks second among goal-scorers this season in Liiga... trailing only his fellow Panthers prospect Aleksi Saarela, who was drafted with the 89th pick in 2015 and has eight goals so far.
