CHARLOTTE — For Panthers head coach Dave Canales, it felt a little like a regular-season week.

But he also knew it was the week after the first preseason game, and a day off, and it happened to start pouring rain for the last half hour of practice. So he wasn't sure what he was going to get.

So he was pleased with the way the team finished Monday's padded practice.

"It felt like a Work Wednesday," Canales said of their in-season name for the day following Tell The Truth Monday and a day off.

"I could sense and I could feel that guys were still a little bit sore from the game," Canales continued. I was nervous that we were going to kind of start out slow. They did not let that happen. The guys got together, they challenged each other, and the energy was great from play one until the end

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