Stephen Weiss has been great for Florida at both ends of the ice this season. He has enjoyed an excellent start with seven goals, 11 assists and a plus-10 rating through the first 19 games. Weiss notched three points and blocked five shots in Saturday's 3-2 win over Pittsburgh. "Stephen is really the guy that runs the engine right now," coach Kevin Dineen said after the victory. "He does so many good things for us and [Saturday] 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." Weiss' play has probably moved him to the top of the list for the Panthers' vacant captaincy, but that's a decision that will likely come sometime down the road.