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Scripps Sports has four teams within its NHL broadcast inventory as the Tampa Bay Lightning join the Florida Panthers, Utah Mammoth and Vegas Golden Knights.
Douglas Cifu, vice chairman, partner and alternate governor of the Panthers, appears to have made the comments while arguing with a fan.
"Eat s*** 51st state anti-semite loser. Israel now and forever. Until ever (sic) last Hamas rat is eliminated,” read a post on the now-deleted X account to Cifu, the team's vice chairman and a longtime Palm Beach County resident.
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The NHL has suspended Florida Panthers vice chairman and alternate governor Doug Cifu from any involvement with the team or the league.
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It’s one thing to be a passionate fan beefing with an opposing fanbase on social media, but another to be the executive of a team and talking like a moron. Douglas A. Cifu, who is listed on the Panthers website as the team’s “Vice Chairman,
Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu has been suspended indefinitely by the NHL after a social media spat with a fan that included discussion of the Israel-Hamas war and accusations
It’s something that we always believed was possible for South Florida. ... It’s great to see. Hockey is growing here at all levels.”