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The Panthers are doing everything they can to stick around and sneak into the playoffs. It doesn’t look like this year is the year and the Panthers organization may be giving out quite a few free tickets next year. Let’s get to the link dump…

• Speaking of the Cats. Raffi Torres scored twice late in the third period to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 3-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night. Torres scored his first goal of the night with 2:46 remaining in the third. He tied it at 1 and ruined Florida goalie Tomas Vokoun’s bid for his seventh shutout of the season.
• The Marlins got good news Saturday: Commissioner Javier Souto, who had been leaning against supporting the stadium project, said he now leans toward voting yes in Monday’s final Miami-Dade County Commission vote. If that’s the case, there will not be enough no votes to kill the project, barring a last-minute surprise. ”I think it will pass,” Souto said.
• A good sign: Dwyane Wade, eligible for free agency in 2010, loves playing for Erik Spoelstra. Besides ”doing an unbelievable job of keeping guys fresh,” Wade said, ”the thing that’s been surprising to me is how he hasn’t been the guy that loves to hear his own voice in practice every day. He makes it efficient. Sometimes young coaches like to hear their own voice and make the day longer.” And Wade likes that Spoelstra “is not a yeller. Once you have the respect of guys, you don’t have to yell. And everybody on the team respects him.”
• Last night Shaq proclaimed he would Twitter from his locker during half time of his game last night.
  

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  And he did just that.

• Tony McDaniel passed his physical Friday, making his trade from the Jaguars to the Dolphins official. McDaniel wound up on injured reserve in December, so Miami made the trade contingent on his passing a physical.