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\t\t\t\t\tThe 2nd straight Stanley Cup for the Florida Panthers may have come at a cost, as assistant captain Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> could miss the start of next year, healing the multiple injuries that he played through during the postseason.The Florida Panthers have won the Stanley Cup for the 2nd straight year<\/a> over the Edmonton Oilers, becoming the 4th back to back Cup winner since the 1997-98 Detroit Red Wings, 2016-2017 Pittsburgh Penguins, and 2020-21 Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n Hockey has taken off in the Sunshine State in recent years, as the Stanley Cup Final has involved at least one Florida-based team since 2020.<\/p>\n But while the Panthers continue to celebrate, they could be starting next year severely shorthanded.<\/p>\n Assistant captain Matthew Tkachuk, who missed the last several months of the regular season after an injury sustained during the 4 Nations Faceoff, could miss the start of the year and be unavailable for several weeks, even months, while he continues to heal his multiple ailments.<\/p>\n Per analyst Nick Kypreos, Tkachuk could undergo surgery and potentially be gone all the way through the Christmas break in late December.<\/p>\n Nick Kypreos: There’s a possibility that Matthew Tkachuk’s injury may need corrective surgery which could keep him out through the Christmas break – Sportsnet<\/p>\n This was confirmed by Florida Hockey Now analyst George Richards, who recently said that Tkachuk was almost certainly going to miss the start of the year.<\/p>\n Following the Cup win, Tkachuk announced he had been playing through some considerable injury troubles, including a torn adductor and a sports hernia.<\/p>\n Tkachuk demonstrated that he was able to play through considerable pain, but he could be in for a long recovery time.<\/p>\n Previously on HouseOfHockey<\/p>\n POLL<\/p>\n 2 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a040 ANSWERS<\/p>\n Worrying Injury News Hits Matthew Tkachuk and the Florida Panthers<\/p>\n Can the Panthers become the NHL’s 1st 3-peat since the early 1980s?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Sports Illustrated The 2nd straight Stanley Cup for the Florida Panthers may have come at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[10892,49,48,747,10895,8620,10894,448,10893,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-11274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-bill-zito","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-florida-panthers","12":"tag-florida-panthers-news","13":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","14":"tag-matthew-tkachuk-injury","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-injury","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}