Panthers sign Canadian singer Michael Buble for a cancer fund-raising cause WSOC TV [Video]

SUNRISE, Fla. — (AP) — The Florida Panthers have signed Canadian singer Michael Buble — for a good cause.

Buble, a five-time Grammy-winning pop icon, has signed on to be part of the team’s fundraising efforts for the American Cancer Society. The “Panthers on the Prowl” initiative combines art and philanthropy to support cancer research and patient services, and donors get the chance to sponsor life-sized panther sculptures that will be placed around South Florida.

The program is the brainchild of Panthers hockey operations president and general manager Bill Zito and his wife Julie Zito.

“’Panthers on the Prowl’ is a creative and really cool and uplifting way to demonstrate and show our support for those people that are suffering, so we can generate the much-needed funding to keep this fight going,” Buble said. “Cancer touches all of us, my family, friends, yours, neighbors, everyone. I joined my buddy Bill Zito and the Florida Panthers and …