As we hit the NHL All-Star break, let's look back at the Panthers' first 49 games and hand out some halfway there hardware

The NHL is currently taking some time off for its annual All-Star Game and corresponding festivities, which are all happening in and around Toronto over the next few days.

With the league on pause, The Hockey News is rolling out mid-season awards for each of the league’s 32 teams that are going live on Friday across all of THN’s team sites.

The Florida Panthers enter the All-Star break in pretty good shape, comfortably seven points ahead of third place Tampa Bay in the Atlantic Division and riding a four-game winning streak overall.

While the 31-14-4 Panthers are slightly past of the mid-season mark, we can still have some fun with the awards.

Here we go: 

ART ROSS: Sam Reinhart, 62 points in 49 games

Reinhart has been running away with the Panthers scoring title for a while now, though a couple players have been making a little headway.

Matthew Tkahcuk, one of the hottest scorers in the league over the past month, only trails Reinhart by 11 points while Carter Verhaeghe, whose been on a nice run of his own, is one point back of Tkachuk.

ROCKET RICHARD: Sam Reinhart, 37 goals in 49 games

Reinhart probably doesn’t have the team goal-scoring title locked up already, but he’s not that far off. His 37 goals are 13 more than the next guy, Carter Verhaeghe.

HART: Sam Reinhart

Has it not been made clear that it’s Sam ReinHART’s world and we’re all just living in it?

NORRIS: Gus Forsling

The guy has been playing top pairing minutes all season and gobbling up ice time in all situations but somehow doing it quietly, with much of the attention on Florida’s blueline going to Aaron Ekblad, Brandon Montour and Oliver Ekman-Larsson.

While both Ekblad and Montour have been working their way back to their high-end level of defending and producing, Forsling has been incredibly consistent on both ends of the ice. He leads the Panthers in plus/minus with a plus-31 rating.

VEZINA: Sergei Bobrovsky

Sergei Bobrovsky has been incredibly solid for the Panthers all season, picking up where he left off during last year’s playoffs as a reliable, acrobatic goaltender that keeps Florida in low-scoring games and comes up with big saves in key moments.

His 23 wins are tied for third-most in the NHL with Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck and Edmonton’s Stuart Skinner.

SELKE: Sam Reinhart

Yes, this is usually Sasha Barkov territory, but Reinhart’s defensive numbers have been too solid and too consistent to ignore. Combined with what he’s doing offensively, Reinhart’s impact on the game places him squarely in Selke territory.

MASTERTON: Oliver Ekman-Larsson

After two extremely difficult, injury-plagued years in Vancouver, Oliver Ekman-Larsson is having a resurgent season.

Healthy and thriving in a system he understands and can execute, the veteran rearguard is an incredibly valuable depth defenseman that Florida can and does utilize in all situations.

It’s a bounce back that few seemed to have saw coming, except perhaps Panthers General Manager Bill Zito.

And, of course, OEL.

LADY BYNG: Eetu Luostarinen

Sasha Barkov has how many penalty minutes?!

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