{"id":482398,"date":"2026-10-02T04:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482398\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:56:13","slug":"panthers-captain-aleksander-barkov-leaves-against-sharks-because-of-apparent-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482398\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov leaves against Sharks because of apparent knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/florida-panthers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/aleksander-barkov-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksander Barkov<\/a> left in the second period against San Jose on Thursday night after his left knee appeared to buckle during a scrum with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharks<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/darnell-nurse-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darnell Nurse<\/a> and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/zack-ostapchuk-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Ostapchuk<\/a> along the boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Barkov immediately left the ice, throwing his glove on the ground as he headed into the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Barkov missed all of last season after tearing his ACL and MCL during training camp. The 31-year-old Finn was playing his second game this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">See AP\u2019s full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a> coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov left in the second period against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[140432,90987,2065,896,88,90,89,98,26194],"class_list":["post-482398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-aleksander-barkov","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-florida-panthers","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-zack-ostapchuk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}