1) Florida is looking to be as competitive as possible this year, they’re not looking to trade away one of their top forwards

2) Thats a hefty underpayment

3) if he were on the team, he would be 1st/2nd line, dude is an absolute sniper

The Panthers have roughly $20m in cap space and if they land both Panarin and Bob that's going to cost them about $17m of that $20m in space and they'd still need to get 4 more forwards and 2 more D under contract. Hoffman only has 1 year remaining and if they feel they can't get him signed then he's a likely choice to move. I also realize value for value, he's better than Rubstov and Hagg, but values change when a team is desperate to create cap space. So if FL does trade him for that reason their fans shouldn't expect to be overly thrilled with the return.

As far as placing in the lineup, Any of those top 3 RW would be interchangable IMO.

Panthers are and will expect a top young RHD in exchange for Hoffman. With Lu most likely going to LTIR and Reimer and Pysyk getting traded they will create another 8-10 million in cap.