Alekser Barkov Was helped from the ice on Thursday, the Captain of Florida Panthers who benefited his right leg.
“It will be viewed today,” said coach Paul Maurice at Baptist Health IcePlex in Fort Lauderdale. “I’ll have a better answer for you tomorrow.”
Thursday was the first time that Panthers veterans were practiced on the ice. Maurice let them train the first week of training camp.
It is the last injury for the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions, who open their season at home against the Chicago Blackhawks on October 7 (5 pm et; ESPN, SN1, TVAs).
The Panthers are already starting the season without topuit Matthew Tkachuk (lower body) and fourth control center Tomas Nosek Because of what general manager Bill Zito called a ‘long -term injury’.
“It’s our control outside,” said Maurice. “We have to learn to win hockey games without good players. But if that is the adversity or test that we are confronted with this year, that is what we are going to do. I mean, I am not a doctor. Whatever the report is, it will not affect what we do the next day.”
Barkov is a triple winner of the Selke Trophy (2020-21, 2023-24, 2024-25) voted as the best defensive attacker of the competition. He was selected by the Panthers with the number 2 pick in the NHL version of 2013, had 71 points last season (20 goals, 51 assists) in 67 games and has 782 points (286 goals, 496 assists) in 804 regular season races.
In the last two postsease, Barkov has 44 points (14 goals, 30 assists) in 47 games, a point behind Tkachuk and Carter Verhaeghe For the most under Panthers skaters.
“If he is out of the line -up during the opening evening, or if he misses an exhibition game, or if he is in the long term, it will simply not influence that day,” said Maurice. “We have to win the hockey game. We have to prepare ourselves. That’s all.”
NHL.com Independent correspondent George Richards contributed to this report
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