FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk said he is still undecided whether to get surgery this offseason to address the significant injuries he suffered in the the 4 Nations Face-Off his year.<\/p>\n
Tkachuk told ESPN in a story posted Friday that, while he\u2019s hoping to return to the ice soon after playing the Stanley Cup playoffs with a torn adductor muscle and a sports hernia injury, he could miss a couple months if he has surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I do get the surgery, it\u2019ll definitely be the first two or maybe three months if that\u2019s the case,\u201d Tkachuk told the sports network. \u201cBut it\u2019s still undecided at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the Panthers won their second straight Stanley Cup in June, Tkachuk revealed that he had sustained the injuries while playing for Team USA in the 4 Nations Face-Off in February. He missed the final 25 games of the NHL regular season but returned for Game 1 of the Panthers\u2019 first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a mess,\u201d coach Paul Maurice said in June, adding the team wasn\u2019t even sure if Tkachuk would make it through the first round because of the injuries.<\/p>\n
Tkachuk had 23 points (eight goals, 15 assists) in 23 playoffs games, including seven points in the final round against Edmonton.<\/p>\n
Tkachuk said after the season that he was 50-50 on if he would have surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019ll be a normal summer or not,\u201d he said in June. \u201cI hope so. \u2026 I have a few weeks here where I can figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Panthers begin the regular season at home against the Chicago Blackhawks on Oct 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk said he is still undecided whether to get surgery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-69207","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\/69207","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=69207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}