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Forwards Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> and Brad Marchand<\/a> are nearing returning from injury, Panthers coach Paul Maurice said before a 5-2 win at the Washington Capitals on Saturday. Tkachuk, who is recovering from surgery to repair a torn adductor muscle and sports hernia on Aug. 22 and expected to play for Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 next month, was on the ice Florida\u2019s extra players at the morning skate, and Maurice said he has responded well to workouts. \u201cHe\u2019s close,\u201d Maurice said. \u201cHe\u2019s getting pushed hard on the ice. He\u2019s coming back. The recovery has been good. He hasn\u2019t felt at a hundred percent, but the last two days he pushed hard, came back, felt good. So, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s very far away now.\u201d Marchand, who is on Team Canada\u2019s roster, missed his fifth straight game with an undisclosed injury. Although he did not skate with the Panthers’ extra players Saturday, Maurice said, \u201cI would say [he is] fairly close too. Neither one of those guys should be out very much longer.\u201d Florida hosts the San Jose Sharks on Monday (6 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, NBCSCA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers Forwards Matthew Tkachuk and Brad Marchand are nearing returning from injury, Panthers coach Paul Maurice said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-415532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415532","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=415532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}