SUNRISE, Fla.\u202f\u2013\u202fFlorida Panthers forwards\u00a0Aleksander Barkov\u00a0and\u00a0Anton Lundell\u00a0captured\u00a0gold\u00a0medals today at the 2026 IIHF World Championship with Finland\u2019s\u00a01-0 overtime\u00a0victory\u00a0vs.\u00a0Switzerland.\u00a0Lundell\u00a0notched\u00a0the primary assist on\u00a0Konsta Helenius\u2019 overtime goal.<\/p>\n
Barkov\u00a0served as captain for Finland, and his\u00a0medal\u00a0represents\u00a0his second at the IIHF World Championship following his silver medal in 2016. He produced\u00a0a team-leading\u00a011 points (3-8-11)\u00a0over\u00a010\u00a0tournament games\u00a0en\u00a0route to being named to the\u00a0tournament All-Star Team.\u00a0He previously\u00a0earned a bronze medal\u00a0at the\u00a02014\u00a0Winter Olympic Games\u00a0alongside current Panthers assistant coach\u00a0Tuomo Ruutu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lundell\u2019s medal is also his second at the IIHF World Championship after he captured silver in 2021. He recorded\u00a0four\u00a0goals,\u00a0two\u00a0assists and\u00a0six\u00a0points\u00a0over\u00a010\u00a0tournament games\u00a0including the primary assist on\u00a0the overtime golden goal against the Swiss.\u00a0He\u00a0helped Finland capture the bronze medal at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games and previously earned gold at the 2019 IIHF U20 WJC and 2018 IIHF U18 WJC, as well as a bronze medal at the 2021 U20 WJC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Five Panthers\u00a0players\u00a0represented\u00a0their countries at the 2026 IIHF World Championship, with all five scoring at least two goals.\u00a0Matthew Tkachuk\u00a0logged seven points (4-3-7) in five games\u00a0for the United States\u00a0and\u00a0Marek Alscher\u00a0potted two goals (2-0-2) in eight contests\u00a0with Czechia.\u00a0Sandis Vilmanis\u00a0tied the\u00a0record\u00a0for points by a Latvian skater at an IIHF World Championship with 11 (4-7-11), which tied for the second-most points of any skater through the group stage at the 2026 tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Panthers\u00a0fans can\u00a0check out recaps and stories from the 2026 IIHF World Championship\u00a0at\u00a0FloridaPanthers.com\/WorldChampionship<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 2026-27 Florida Panthers Territory Memberships are available now! Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to learn more. For all the latest in\u00a0Panthers\u00a0news, concerts and events at\u00a0Amerant\u00a0Bank Arena & FTL War Memorial, sign up for\u00a0’93 Society newsletter<\/a>\u00a0and receive information straight to your inbox. Visit\u00a0FloridaPanthers.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0SeatGeek.com<\/a> for all ticketing needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla.\u202f\u2013\u202fFlorida Panthers forwards\u00a0Aleksander Barkov\u00a0and\u00a0Anton Lundell\u00a0captured\u00a0gold\u00a0medals today at the 2026 IIHF World Championship with Finland\u2019s\u00a01-0 overtime\u00a0victory\u00a0vs.\u00a0Switzerland.\u00a0Lundell\u00a0notched\u00a0the primary assist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-291168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}