{"id":416411,"date":"2026-10-02T04:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416411\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:24:16","slug":"barkov-leaves-panthers-game-at-sharks-early-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416411\/","title":{"rendered":"Barkov Leaves Panthers Game at Sharks Early with Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

After missing a full season due to a right knee injury, Florida Panthers captain Sasha Barkov left Thursday\u2019s game against the San Jose Sharks with what looked to be an injury to his left knee. <\/p>\n

Barkov was playing the puck up against the wall against Darnell Nurse and Zach Ostapchuk when his left leg buckled underneath him.<\/p>\n

He was in the corner and pushed open the entry door to the rink immediately, going down the tunnel to the Florida locker room. <\/p>\n

Barkov showed frustration in the moment, tossing his gloves to the ground as he limped to the room. <\/p>\n

Moments earlier, Barkov drew a 4-minute high-sticking penalty on Kieffer Sherwood when he took a stick to the mouth. <\/p>\n

Barkov was also slashed in the hand\/wrist area, and missed the first leg of the double-minor as he was being attended to on the bench.<\/p>\n

Florida was down 2-0 at the time of the injury.<\/p>\n

The Panthers also played without defenseman Gus Forsling who was a late scratch after taking warmups. <\/p>\n

Uvis Balinskis played in his place.<\/p>\n

ON DECK<\/p>\n

FLORIDA PANTHERS at ANAHEIM DUCKS<\/p>\n

\t\t\"avatar\"<\/p>\n

\t\tGeorge Richards is the publisher of Florida Hockey Now and has been the beat writer covering the NHL Florida … More about George Richards, FHN Publisher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing a full season due to a right knee injury, Florida Panthers captain Sasha Barkov left Thursday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,16995,21606,160525],"class_list":["post-416411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sasha-aleksander-barkov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416411","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=416411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}