The Panthers appear to be inching towards naming Stephen Weiss their captain. Weiss is enjoying the best two-way start of his 10-year career with the Panthers. He has seven goals and 11 assists in 19 games and is a plus-10. "Stephen is really the guy that runs the engine right now," coach Kevin Dineen said. "He does so many good things for us and tonight he needed to do it on the defensive side and then he had three points. When he's getting that kind of production and also going big minutes against really big, strong men, that's a pretty valuable guy. He had a heck of a game for us."