{"id":55403,"date":"2025-08-08T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55403\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:17:07","slug":"panthers-tkachuk-undecided-on-surgery-could-miss-two-to-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55403\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Tkachuk undecided on surgery, could miss two-to-three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"florida-panthers\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/florida-panthers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Panthers<\/a> forward is &#8220;50-50&#8221; on whether to undergo surgery for a torn adductor muscle and sports hernia suffered during the 4 Nations Face-Off, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/45927329\/matthew-tkachuk-miss-2-3-months-surgery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told ESPN<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I do get the surgery, it&#8217;ll definitely be the first two or maybe three months (of the 2025-26 season) if that&#8217;s the case. But it&#8217;s still undecided at this point,&#8221; Tkachuk said.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk missed the remainder of the regular season after sustaining the injury in February but returned in time for Game 1 of the playoffs. The winger didn&#8217;t miss a single post-season contest, posting 23 points in the 23 games las the Panthers won their second straight Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He said he&#8217;s taken time this off-season to make a decision on surgery, but he&#8217;s hoping to skate &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Tkachuk was named the cover star of the video game NHL 26 and watched as the Panthers&#8217; winning core stuck together with new deals for Aaron Ekblad, Sam Bennett and Brad Marchand.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk is under contract with the Panthers through the 2029-30 season at an average annual value of $9.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers forward is &#8220;50-50&#8221; on whether to undergo surgery for a torn adductor muscle and sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-55403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55403","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=55403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}