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The Florida Panthers have fared relatively well without the services of their two best players over the last week — but reinforcements are on the way. Matthew Tkachuk, who has missed the last five games because of an illness, will return to the lineup when the Minnesota Wild visit Amerant Bank Arena on Tuesday night. […]

The Columbus Blue Jackets will play their home opener on Tuesday night at Nationwide Arena, the first regular season home game since the shocking and tragic deaths of Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew in late August. In addition to the usual home-opener festivities, there will be a special pre-game ceremony to honor the memories […]

The Florida Panthers will be without LW Matthew Tkachuk due to illness against the Buffalo Sabres, per NHL insider Elliotte Friedman. In his place, Spencer Knight will get the start. The Panthers will also be without C Aleksander Barkov (lower body), who is expected to miss two to three weeks. Over the last few days, […]

When a team finally reaches the mountaintop after falling short in previous years, there is some concern that players will relent a little and succumb to a lapse, commonly known as a championship hangover. Well, the Florida Panthers are starting the 2024-25 campaign at full throttle, six weeks after winning their first-ever Stanley Cup title. […]

The Florida Panthers are still reveling in the glory of their first-ever Stanley Cup championship, a thrilling seven-game series victory over the Edmonton Oilers. After winning the first three games, disaster nearly struck as they dropped the next three, but they ultimately secured the title with a Game 7 win on home ice. With the […]

Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk and Boston Celtics guard Jayson Tatum, both St. Louis natives, recently won championships in their respective sports—Tkachuk in the NHL and Tatum in the NBA. During the Celtics’ and Panthers’ postseason runs earlier this summer, a middle school photo of Matthew Tkachuk and Jayson Tatum went viral online. When they […]

For the first time in franchise history, the Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions. The Cats eliminated the Edmonton Oilers in seven games on Monday night after blowing a 3-0 lead. But, in the end, the Panthers got it done and they partied hard after the series clincher following the win at home. In fact, […]

The Florida Panthers have had their world turned upside down. Florida started the Stanley Cup Final with a three-game win streak, putting them one win away from victory. However, they allowed Edmonton to win three games in a row, securing a massive Game 7. Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk knows the stakes of Game 7. Tkachuk […]

Matthew Tkachuk and the Florida Panthers remain one game away from a maiden Stanley Cup championship after getting shellacked 8-1 in their first try at eliminating the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night. The Oil came to play in Game 4 at Rogers Place, but now they’ll have to secure another victory in a place where […]

The Florida Panthers could not put the Edmonton Oilers away in Game 4. Edmonton rocked Florida 8-1 in a game where their season was literally on the line. A scrum between Matthew Tkachuk and Connor McDavid has taken center stage following Game 4. The Panthers forward recently spoke with the media about the rumble. According to […]

For the first time in their history, the Florida Panthers enjoy a series lead in the Stanley Cup Final in their third appearance as one of the final two National Hockey League teams standing. They’ve frustrated the Edmonton Oilers in the first two games, holding their vaunted offensive attack to a single goal in 120 […]

A private school in greater St. Louis could produce two champions this June. Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum is pursuing his first ring in the 2024 NBA Finals versus the Dallas Mavericks, while his former classmate Matthew Tkachuk is trying to raise the Stanley Cup for the Florida Panthers. Tatum grew up in St. Louis […]

Although it’s probably not safe to say that Matthew Tkachuk and the Florida Panthers were just happy to get to the 2023 Stanley Cup Final, it is safe to say that it was a cinderella run that no one saw coming. The Cats were the final seed in the Eastern Conference and made a miraculous […]

The Florida Panthers will be playing for the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive season. This time, they’re hoping for a better result than their five-game series loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. And considering the fact that they entered this year’s postseason as the Atlantic Division champions, they’re in a much better position to […]

The Edmonton Oilers will meet the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final, and one player will lead their team to victory and win the MVP award. We’re here to share our Stanley Cup Final odds series and make a Stanley Cup Conn Smythe Trophy prediction and pick for the series. The Stanley Cup here […]

The Florida Panthers have a plan to stop the top skaters of the Edmonton Oilers. Panther Matthew Tkachuk is giving fans a little taste of what that plan is, by revealing how the squad must stop Oilers stars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. “It’s a group effort. Never one person. We’ve got a really good […]

The Florida Panthers made a Cinderella run to the Stanley Cup Final in 1996, getting ousted by the Colorado Avalanche in four games. The team entered into years of mediocre play and thin crowds after that, but the emergence of Aleksander Barkov and Aaron Ekblad turned their team into a President’s Trophy winner. The club […]

Just like they did a year ago, the Florida Panthers have stolen back home-ice advantage in the Eastern Conference Final after winning Game 1 on the road. It didn’t take four overtimes this time around, and Matthew Tkachuk’s team will be happy to escape with an important 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers in […]

After the Boston Bruins dominated Game 1 of their second-round series against the Florida Panthers, the home team reversed its fortunes and overwhelmed the Bruins in Game 2 to tie matters up. After the Panthers built a huge advantage in the third period, the game debilitated into a series of cheap shots and fights. A […]

Despite having home-ice advantage, and playing against a Boston Bruins team that wasn’t 48 hours removed from winning a Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Florida Panthers were unable to take a 1-0 lead on the B’s in a Stanley Cup Playoff series for the second straight year. The Bruins beat the Panthers […]

Matthew Tkachuk’s net worth in 2024 is $60 million. Tkachuk is a popular professional ice hockey player who currently suits up for the Florida Panthers of the NHL and is part of a famous hockey family. He is the son of NHL legend Keith Tkachuk and already a two-time NHL All-Star. Let’s take a closer […]

As the dust settled on yet another nail-biting Game 7, the NHL’s postseason script seemed painfully familiar to Toronto Maple Leafs fans. The Leafs fell 2-1 in overtime to the Boston Bruins last Saturday, a defeat that marked yet another first-round exit for a team with a torturous history of playoff underachievement. The spotlight, as […]

The Florida Panthers were dealt a scare on Thursday evening in a 1-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes as both Matthew Tkachuk and Gustav Forsling exited with apparent injuries. Ahead of Saturday’s clash with the Washington Capitals, head coach Paul Maurice offered updates on the two. Tkachuk won’t play and remains day-to-day but Forsling is […]

The Florida Panthers lost a 1-0 heartbreaker to the Carolina Hurricanes in a rematch of last season’s Eastern Conference Final and they also lost Matthew Tkachuk and Gustav Forsling in the first period. Both players suffered injuries early in the game and were unable to return for the Panthers. After the game, Panthers coach Paul […]

In the NHL, it’s critical for a team to navigate the salary cap to have success. Even more so than in other sports, as the NHL has a hard cap with fewer ways to manipulate it. As such, it’s not uncommon for one or two bad contracts to completely sink a team. On the other […]

Matthew Tkachuk did absolutely everything he could for the Florida Panthers in the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, but he was forced to watch the Vegas Golden Knights win the title from the press box after breaking his sternum in Game 3. Still, he was the best player for his team throughout the postseason, and he […]

After the crushing blow of losing the Stanley Cup to the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday night, the Florida Panthers were dealt a double whammy when they received the injury update on star forward Matthew Tkachuk. The Golden Knights defeated the Panthers in five games, ending it with a 9-3 domination. It was certainly not […]

The Florida Panthers are hit with a massive injury update on Matthew Tkachuk, who has been ruled out of Game 5 of the 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final against the Vegas Golden Knights due to an apparent upper-body issue. Matthew Tkachuk will not play tonight during Game 5 of the #StanleyCup Final, per @SNkylebukauskas. pic.twitter.com/m9T5zKbOQX […]

After a crushing Game 4 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights, the Florida Panthers received an unfortunate injury update regarding the heart and soul of their team in Matthew Tkachuk. Speculation of an injury for Tkachuk has grown since he was on the receiving end of a crushing hit in Game 3, where Tkachuk was […]

Inside the NBA on TNT host Charles Barkley is an NBA legend well-known for his love of hockey, but that apparently doesn’t mean much to Vegas Golden Knights star Jack Eichel, a rival to the Florida Panthers’ Matthew Tkachuk, who Charles is a fan of. At least, that’s how Barkley felt about an exchange the […]

Matthew Tkachuk was heroic again for the Florida Panthers on Thursday night, virtually keeping his team’s season alive by tying Game 3 late against the Vegas Golden Knights before teammate Carter Verhaeghe scored in overtime to earn the team its first Stanley Cup Final win in franchise history. But before the Panthers avoided going down […]

Down by a goal and desperate for one late in regulation of Game 3 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Finals, the Florida Panthers turned to the man who has been delivering for them all playoffs long: Matthew Tkachuk. The Panthers star tied the game at 2-2 with a little over two minutes remaining in the […]

Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk had to leave the ice in the first period of Game 3 of the 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Final after taking a massive hit from Vegas Golden Knights forward Vegas Golden Knights. Kolesar drops Tkachuk with a big hit 💥 pic.twitter.com/vLtTSWNElY — Spittin' Chiclets (@spittinchiclets) June 9, 2023 Matthew Tkachuk was […]

The Florida Panthers will play a must-win Game 3 against the Las Vegas Golden Knights in the 2023 Stanley Cup Final Thursday night. The Golden Knights have been dominant in this series. Las Vegas is the first team since the 1996 Colorado Avalanche (who also played the Panthers) to win the first two games of […]

Faced with a 0-2 series deficit in the 2023 Stanley Cup Final after two games against the Vegas Golden Knights, Matthew Tkachuk and the Florida Panthers remain very much hopeful that they can turn things around. The Panthers have gotten this far in the Stanley Cup Playoffs because they don’t have the word quit in […]

Matthew Tkachuk has established himself as one of the best hockey players in the NHL. After a blockbuster trade last summer that sent Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers, his star has risen even higher by leading his new team to the 2023 Stanley Cup Final with a string a game-winning plays in the postseason. But […]

The Stanley Cup Playoffs are coming to an end, with just two teams now remaining. The Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers will face off in the Stanley Cup Final, with both teams looking for their first title. Aside from the Stanley Cup itself, the biggest question left is who will win the Conn Smythe […]

Matthew Tkachuk is in a difficult spot when it comes to taking a side in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. He’s playing for the Florida Panthers, so expectations are he’s going to support the state’s very own Miami Heat. However, he also has history with Boston Celtics, having been friends and classmates with Jayson Tatum […]

The Florida Panthers were the last team in the Eastern Conference to advance to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and just over a week before, Keith Tkachuk went on a rant blasting the same team that will play in the Stanley Cup Final next week. On Mar. 29, Tkachuk made an appearance on TSN 1050 in […]