{"id":59122,"date":"2025-08-05T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59122\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:36:11","slug":"panthers-tkachuk-revealed-as-cover-athlete-for-nhl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59122\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Tkachuk revealed as cover athlete for NHL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time all-star has been a key member of the Panthers since he was traded to them before the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p>He has reached the Stanley Cup Final in each of his first three seasons with Florida, including back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2023-24 and 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>During last season&#8217;s playoff run, Tkachuk was tied for the Panthers lead in points (23; eight goals, 15 assists) throughout the postseason that culminated in the team&#8217;s second consecutive championship.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old played his first six seasons in the NHL with the Calgary Flames before he was traded to the Panthers on July 22, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Tkachuk is the first Panthers player to be on the cover of the video game since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-vanbiesbrouck-8452157\" title=\"John Vanbiesbrouck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Vanbiesbrouck<\/a> in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two-time all-star has been a key member of the Panthers since he was traded to them before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-59122","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\/59122","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=59122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}