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Fluorida panthers star Matthew It is said that he remains unspecified about surgery before the 2025-26 season, but admitted that he could remember the significant time he needs it.
27 -year -old Takachuk revealed after the season that in February, he maintained a torn adctor muscle and a sports hernia injury while playing for the team USA in 4 nations. He missed the final 25 matches of the NHL regular season, but returned to game 1 of the first round series of panthers Tampa Bay LightningTkachuk had 23 points (8 goals, 15 aids) in 23 matches during the playoffs, including seven points in the final against Edmonton, to take the panthers to their second straight Stanley Cup Championship.
Coach Paul Maurice said that his star is “a mess” at the front.
He said, “We were not expecting that he would live in the first round.”
Tkachuk said after the season that it was “50/50” whether he was doing surgery, saying that Offsen provided enough time to make that call. Tkachuk told ESPN on Friday that “I am still expecting to hit the snow as soon as possible.” Should he decide to go under the knife, Takachuk said, it is likely that he will remember the action of several months.
“If I get surgery, it will definitely be the first two or perhaps three months if it is so. But it is still unlocked at this point,” the Panthers Star said, the contract and cap hit can be placed on the long -term injured reserve during their recovery.
This is a notable offsen for Tkachuk. He appears on the cover of EA Sports’ NHL 26 and is depicted on the cover of the deluxe version of the game with brother Brady and Father Keith.
Matthew and Brady Takchuk The next year was among the first six players in the name of the 2026 US Mains Olympic Hockey Roster for Winter Games in Italy. Matthew Takachuk also married fiancé Elli Connell in July.
All this was after another epic, at the Multide Stanley Cup celebration by Panthers in Forte Lauderdel and Miami, which had comfortable appearances in a championship parade along with bar, club and beaches.
The opportunities of panthers for a third straight Stanley Cup received a boost in this summer when GM Bill Zito Star Veteran was able to re -sign a trio of free agents: Center Sam Bennett (8 years, $ 64 million), Defenseman Aaron Ekblad (8 years, $ 48 million), and winger Brad Marchand (6 years, $ 31.5 million).
Tkachuk said he was not surprised that the three players wanted to live with the panthers, but he was surprised that Zito found a way to work for money under a salary cap.
“I thought the way the money was tied, you did not know that it was going to be possible, and somehow it was,” he said. “Everyone was taken care of so well, and the bill did a big job to ensure that it could be.
Tkachuk said he was confident that Ekblad would return, a panther would be a panther as he was first drafted by Florida in 2014. He was a little less about Bennett and especially Marchand, which both had a chance to break the bank in free agency.
“When Marchand did a business for the first time [at the deadline this spring]I must have thought that there was never any chance that we were going to be able to keep everyone. But as time passes and you get success and you know that there are desires for people’s will and wishes for the rest of their career, you can start adding dots, “said Takchuk.” People just don’t want to leave Florida when they come [here]We still have one thing that is going now, and everyone wants to be a part of it. ,
