{"id":149936,"date":"2025-09-17T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149936\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:37:08","slug":"panthers-share-when-star-could-return-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149936\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Share When Star Could Return After Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_pfuddp3aq\">The year 2025 was a roller coaster for Panthers left wing Matthew Tkachuk. In the span of a single season, he missed months due to an injury in the 4-Nations Face-off, returned to help Florida win a Stanley Cup, and underwent offseason surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_sd4n3dtxf\">Because of <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nhl\/matthew-tkachuk-to-miss-start-of-season-after-undergoing-surgery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that surgery<\/a> to repair a sports hernia and torn adductor, Tkachuk will miss the start of the Panthers&#8217; season\u2014and according to general manager Bill Zito, the team has a timeline for his return in mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_06wlzot6w\">Tkachuk is aiming to return in December, Zito told reporters Wednesday morning via team insider <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GeorgeRichards\/status\/1968301394458456369?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">George Richards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_dxyuvin2w\">The 27-year-old son of longtime NHL left wing Keith Tkachuk is entering his 10th NHL season and his fourth with Florida. In &#8217;25, he ended the year with 22 goals and 35 assists in 52 games played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8k8fvjq0t\">The Panthers are scheduled to celebrate their second straight Stanley Cup and open their season on Oct. 7 against the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p>More on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The year 2025 was a roller coaster for Panthers left wing Matthew Tkachuk. In the span of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-149936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}