SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Panthers' locker room has been a somber place after the past few home games, all of which were losses.

There has been no music blaring as players go through their postgame cycling workouts, no celebratory shouting, no happy banter.

Being in last place will do that to a team.

The back-to-back Stanley Cup champions — the three-time defending Eastern Conference champions — are ahead of exactly nobody right now on that side of the NHL. They've lost three straight overall, four in a row at home and have only 25 standings points through 25 games.

“There's some frustration, for sure,” Panthers forward Sam Reinhart said. “A lot of things have gone right for us over the last few years and that certainly adds to it. We’ve been in this position before, but it's go

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