{"id":316612,"date":"2026-06-23T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316612\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:37:22","slug":"brady-tkachuk-picks-his-new-florida-panthers-number-its-not-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316612\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Tkachuk Picks His New Florida Panthers Number. It\u2019s Not No. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brady Tkachuk has worn No. 7 throughout his NHL career as his father, Keith, did for much of his. Only Dmitry Kulikov wears that number with the Florida Panthers, and has for some time.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/welcome-to-the-elbo-room-florida-panthers-trading-for-brady-tkachuk\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/welcome-to-the-elbo-room-florida-panthers-trading-for-brady-tkachuk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Tkachuk now part of the Panthers<\/a>, he needs to pick a new numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Seems he did so pretty quickly. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, the Panthers\u2019 team store <a href=\"https:\/\/flateamshop.com\/featured-collections\/players\/brady-tkachuk\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/flateamshop.com\/featured-collections\/players\/brady-tkachuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began selling new Brady Tkachuk No. 8 jerseys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Tkachuk did wear No. 8 with the Atlanta Thrashers for part of one season. <\/p>\n<p>Dallas Eakins was the first to wear No. 8 for the Panthers during their second season, and Tkachuk will be the 16th to wear it in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Notable players to wear No. 8 for the Panthers include Val Bure, Peter Worrell, and Kyle Okposo.<\/p>\n<p>ON DECK: FLORIDA PANTHERS\u00a0OFFSEASON<\/p>\n<p>NHL Draft (No picks in First Round, Six Overall):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/nhl-draft-lottery-maple-leafs-win-sharks-get-second-florida-panthers-pick-9th\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday-Saturday; KeyBank Center, Buffalo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NHL Free Agency:\u00a0Opens July 1<\/p>\n<p>Panthers Development Camp:\u00a0Late June\/Early July; IcePlex, Fort Lauderdale<\/p>\n<p>Panthers Rookie Camp\/Tournament:\u00a0Late August\/Early Sept.; Site TBA<\/p>\n<p>Panthers Training Camp:\u00a0Early\/Mid September; Fort Lauderdale\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2026-27 NHL Season Opens:\u00a0Late September; Site, Opponent TBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brady Tkachuk has worn No. 7 throughout his NHL career as his father, Keith, did for much of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80319,98863,28,30,29,16995,131150,53656],"class_list":["post-316612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brady-tkachuk","tag-dmitry-kulikov","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-keith-tkachuk","tag-matthew-tkachuk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316612","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=316612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}