The Florida Panthers will play their first game in Utah tonight when they visit the NHL’s newest team. A team, one may notice, is not all that new. Unlike previous expansion teams, the Utah Hockey Club was not slapped together one offseason before making its debut in a matter of weeks.

“Everything,” the Florida Panthers captain said. Closing out their two-game trip by pocketing a pair of important points, the Panthers steadily built up their game in a 4-1 win over the Utah Hockey Club at Delta Center on Wednesday.

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Utah sports a 5-7-4 record in its barn and has also lost its last three straight at home. Karel Vejmelka is tonight’s expected starter, and in his last five games, he possesses a 1-3-1 record with a .901 SV% and a 3.03 GAA.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Jesper Boqvist scored twice for the Florida Panthers in a 4-1 win against the Utah Hockey Club at Delta Center on Wednesday. “Really complete effort there to close up the road trip, we played a full [60 minutes],” Boqvist said. “They had a lot of [power-play] chances, but we stuck with it, stayed with it, and got two points here."

Check out the injury report for the Utah Hockey Club (17-15-7), which currently has four players listed on it, as the Utah Hockey Club ready for their matchup against the Florida Panthers

All things considered, though, the Utah Hockey Club performed at an elite level on Wednesday, despite losing 4-1 to the Florida Panthers (It was a 2-1 game with two empty-net goals). Utah kept up on both ends of the ice,