{"id":43313,"date":"2025-08-04T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43313\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:27:08","slug":"panthers-matthew-tkachuk-to-grace-cover-of-nhl-26-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43313\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Matthew Tkachuk to grace cover of NHL 26 video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/florida-panthers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"florida-panthers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Panthers<\/a> star was revealed as the cover athlete for the NHL 26 video game, EA Sports announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk, 27, has won the past two Stanley Cups with the Panthers, playing pivotal roles in each championship.<\/p>\n<p>The American winger scored 45 points (14 goals, 31 assists) across those two playoff runs.<\/p>\n<p>He returned from injury in time for Game 1 of the first round this past spring, and later revealed he had torn his adductor muscle completely off the bone while also playing through a sports hernia.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk gained further international fame during the 4 Nations Face-Off when he played a starring role for the U.S. He memorably fought Canada&#8217;s Brandon Hagel right off the opening face-off, setting in motion three straight tilts that injected new energy into the longstanding rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>EA Sports added that the full video-game reveal would take place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers star was revealed as the cover athlete for the NHL 26 video game, EA Sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-43313","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\/43313","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=43313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}