Kulikov, 34, was injured in Florida’s second game of the season, a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> on Thursday in which he played 11 shifts covering 7:47 time on the ice. After a collision with Flyers forward Bobby Brink<\/a> on a second-period shift, he left the ice holding his right wrist.<\/p>\n The Panthers made his move to IR official on Friday, and on Saturday, after morning skate leading into his team’s home game against the Ottawa Senators<\/a>, coach Paul Maurice told reporters that the veteran could need surgery.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Florida, off to a 2-0 start, is already without captain Aleksander Barkov<\/a>, who underwent knee surgery last month, and forward Matthew Tkachuk<\/a>, who is out until at least December with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n This is Kulikov’s second tenure with the Panthers. He appeared in 70 games last season, finishing with four goals and 13 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 11, 2025, 04:41 PM ET Veteran defenseman Dmitry Kulikov, a steady force on the blue line of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-217680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1556683_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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