{"id":917670,"date":"2026-10-02T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917670\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:24:08","slug":"panthers-barkov-to-have-more-tests-after-injuring-left-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917670\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Barkov to have more tests after injuring left leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Florida captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/aleksander-barkov\/0cd5158e-f92b-11e2-a133-f4ce4684ea4c\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"0cd5158e-f92b-11e2-a133-f4ce4684ea4c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aleksander Barkov<\/a> left in the second period of the Panthers&#8217; 4-3 overtime loss to San Jose on Thursday night after his left knee appeared to buckle during a scrum with Sharks defender Darnell Nurse and forward Zack Ostapchuk along the boards.<\/p>\n<p>Barkov immediately left the ice, throwing his glove on the ground as he headed into the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Florida coach Paul Maurice did not specify the type of injury Barkov suffered, but said the team would know the extent of the severity Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not related to his injury last year at all,\u201d Maurice said. \u201cWe\u2019ll have a good idea by tomorrow afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barkov missed all of last season after tearing his right ACL and MCL during training camp. The 31-year-old Finn was playing his second game this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Florida captain Aleksander Barkov left in the second period of the Panthers&#8217; 4-3 overtime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-917670","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\/917670","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=917670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}