News about Matthew Tkachuk

Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk spent much of the summer celebrating his first Stanley Cup title. Now he's celebrating the life of his friend and beloved former Calgary Flames teammate, Johnny Gaudreau.

Fanatics and the NHL have unveiled their new jerseys for the 2024-25 season, and after all the controversy over the brand's MLB uniforms, officials insist that the new threads have been tested and refined. It is the first time the company has designed and made in-game uniforms with its own branding for a major North American professional sports league. Fanatics, which was criticized for Major League Baseball uniform issues that MLB and the MLB Players Association later said Nike was responsible for and was fixing for next season , is using the same factory that has made hockey sweaters for decades.

Tkachuk, Aaron Ekbald, and Sam Reinhart were all at the Elbo Room Beach Bar in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday with a giant herd of Panthers fans around them to get a glimpse of hockey's ultimate prize. Beers were also poured into the Cup as fans continued to go crazy over their team's clinch of its first-ever Stanley Cup.

A heartwarming high school photo of Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum and Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk has re-emerged on social media, with both players leading their respective teams to the brink of championships. The Celtics are up 3-0 in the NBA Finals on the Dallas Mavericks with Game 4 set for Friday night. Tkachuk's Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night to take a 3-0 series lead. 

Whichever way the 2024 Stanley Cup Final ends, a drought will be ended for one of the two teams in it. On one side there's the Florida Panthers - a team who has been this far twice and has fallen both times: once in 1996 to the Colorado Avalanche and last year to the Vegas Golden Knights. Then there's the Edmonton Oilers - who haven't touched the Stanley Cup since 1990. They also carry the burden of Canada upon their shoulders, as the Great White North hasn't hoisted the trophy in 31 years.

Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk fought longtime Bruins favorite David Pastrnak at the end of Wednesday night's Game 2 in the NHL's Eastern Conference semifinal matchup. After the dust-up, Pastrnak made sure to let Tkachuk know, with at least three more games left in the series that 'I'm not afraid - I can take a punch!' The result of Wednesday night's game was already in hand with Florida leading 6-1, a reversal from Monday's Game 1, where Boston won on the road 5-1. 

In the Stanley Cup Finals, the Golden Knights were on the brink of taking the lead over the Florida Panthers by 3-0, but Matthew Tkachachuk gave him a late equalizer in the waning moments of the third period before handing over the game-winner to Carter Verhaeghe in overtime. Now, the never-say-day Panthers are in Game 4 in Sunrise, Florida, trailing only 2-1 after Thursday's 3-2 overtime victory.

Matthew Tkachachuk of the Florida Panthers returned to Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night after missing time following a big hit from Vegas Golden Knights forward Keegan Kolesar. Matthew Tkachuk of the Florida Panthers returned to Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night after missing time after being unable to recover following a big hit from Vegas Golden Knights forward Keegan Kolesar. On Tkachachuk six minutes in, Kolesar struck with an open-ice hit. When he was attempting to get up and skate to the bench, Tkachachuk stumbled. Before returning to the ice for the start of a Florida power play, he spoke with a trainer on the bench. Tkachachuk went down the tunnel a few minutes after, skipped the remainder of the first period, and did not return immediately after intermission.

The Vegas Golden Knights made it clear that the Stanley Cup would be a complete whitewash, rather dismantled the Florida Panthers in Ga me 2. With a 7-2 victory on Monday night, the hosts blasted into a 2-0 series, establishing their kingship across the ice. And they were even more active than in Game 1; they couldn't be banned from playing.

In the final third of game one of the Stanley Cup series, a fracas ensued, prompting Florida Panthers forwards Matthew Tkachachuk and Sam Bennett to be tossed. In Saturday night's Stanley Cup race, the Vegas Golden Knights took a 1-0 series lead over the Florida Panthers. The Panthers had taken a lead through Eric Staal, but when it fell away from them during the Golden Knights' comeback in the third, tensions began to rise. Following flinging punches at Golden Knights defenseman Nicolas Hague during a scrum, Tkachachuk and Bennett were both dismissed with 4:24 left in the game.

Not since Boston and Los Angeles in 2020 has the sports world's attention and curiosity been so concentrated on one area of America as Florida in 2023. The Boston Red Sox were reigning World Series champions, the New England Patriots were Super Bowl champions, and the Boston Bruins had reached the Stanley Cup Finals by the summer of 2019. The following year was devoted to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers snapped a 32-year championship drought ended and the Lakers claimed their first NBA title in the bubble.

Many hockey fans were not expecting a second all-Sun Belt Stanley Cup Final in NHL history. Boston was the best regular season squad in the league's history going into the playoffs. They were knocked out by the worst team that made it in. Canada wished that they would win their first Stanley Cup since 1993. Rather, the Jets were quickly dismissed and the Maple Leafs and Oilers' star power was snuffed out.

Jayson Tatum and Matthew Tkachachuk once attended a high school gym class, and now the Boston Celtics and Florida Panthers stars are in national spotlights. On TNT's broadcast of Game 6 of the Celtics' Eastern Conference Finals series with the Miami Heat, a decade-old video of the St. Louis natives appeared alongside T. Tatum, his Chaminade College Preparatory School classmate. Tkachachuk, who had scored three game winners as Florida defeated the Carolina Hurricanes to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals, was in Miami on Saturday to see Tatum's Celtics force a Game 7 in their continuing playoff series with the Heat. In a nearly decade-old video in which the budding basketball star lists the 'Reasons why I came to Chaminade,' it was present.'

Matthew Tkachachuk scored a game winner in the dying seconds of regulation to guarantee his team's victory over the Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals - the first in the history of the South Florida franchise. In Game 4's final seconds, the 25-year-old winger scored a power-play goal with 4.9 seconds remaining. With 3:22 minutes remaining on the clock, the Hurricanes thought they had salvaged their season by leveling score (3-3) through Jesper Fast.

Despite being a lowly eighth seed, the Florida Panthers have taken a 3-0 lead over the Carolina Panthers in the Eastern Conference Finals and are just one win away from playing for the Stanley Cup. On Monday, Aleksander Barkov scored the game's only goal midway through the first period on assists from Matthew Tkachachuk and Sam Bennett. The 2006 Edmonton Oilers advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals by winning in Sunrise again on Friday, becoming just the third eighth seed in NHL history to reach the championships, but the Los Angeles Kings honed the Cup in 2012.

Matthew Tkachachuk made it back to the Panthers in Raleigh, netting an overtime goal to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals, bringing a 2-0 advantage. It was technically the second game of the series, but it was effectively the third after the two teams played a four-overtime marathon in the opener on Thursday - a game that also featured a Tkachuk winner. In the first period, Jalen Chatfield of North Carolina got the Hurricanes on the board, scoring his first career playoff goal on assists from Sebastian Aho and Stefan Noesen. However, Florida did not stay down long as Aleksander Barkov netted the equalizer with an assist from Josh Mahura in the second period, as has been the case throughout the playoffs.

The Carolina Hurricanes had their hopes, but they lost the franchise's longest game in franchise history when Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk scored the tie-breaker in quadruple overtime. Florida thought they had won the game in the first overtime, but Ryan Lomberg's apparent goal was overturned due to a contentious goalie-interference call by the Panthers' Colin White. Even as Panthers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky was trapped out of place, there were other chances, such as Sebastian Aho's shot off the wall in the early stages of the fourth overtime. Jesper Fast whiffed in front of the net on a sure-be game winner minutes later during a Carolina power play. A deflected Aaron Ekblad shot ricocheted off the crossbar late in the fourth, but the Hurricanes' net was unable to locate the back of the Hurricane's net.

Consider the Toronto Maple Leafs as the most complete NHL elite to be completely confounded by the eighth-seeded Florida Panthers. The Panthers defeated the Leafs 3-2 in Toronto on Thursday, giving them a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals following their first-round upset of the top-seeded Boston Bruins. Sheldon Keefe, the Leafs' head coach, was particularly worried about the Panthers' second-period results, in which the Panthers scored two unanswered goals. 'Disappointing' Keefe said, 'Baffling.' We didn't make those mistakes one time in the last series [first round against Tampa].'

In second-round playoff series, the Florida Panthers shocked the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 to draw first blood, while the Maple Leafs threwled their first blood, while the Maple Leafs escaped a squandered two-goal lead. Meanwhile, Yanni Gourde scored 12:17 into overtime and the Seattle Kraken defeated Dallas 5-4 in Game 1 of their second-round series Tuesday night, despite Joe Pavelski scoring all four Stars goals in his return to their lineup. Pavelski, 38 years and 295 days old, became the first player to play in a four-goal game in the NHL playoffs. It came in in his 170th postseason game, making him one of only five players without winning a Stanley Cup.

After surviving a dramatic third period to defeat the Boston Bruins, 7-5 in Friday's Game 6, the Florida Panthers are still alive in the Eastern Conference Playoffs. The game now shifts back to Boston, where the highly favored Bruins will try to prevent elimination - and embarrassment - in Game 7 on Sunday. The two teams combined for seven third-period goals, three of which occurred in a four-minute span in the middle of the game.

Linus Ullmark went to play on ice with a few minutes to play, which isn't a good thing for hockey goaltenders. In this case, the Boston Bruins appreciated him more. After drawing a misconduct foul, Ullmark stopped 41 shots before escaping with 3:11 still on the field, and the Bruins defeated the Panthers 6-2 on Sunday, moving one game away from the second round of the playoffs.

The NHL has revealed a list of the first 32 names to be chosen for the 2023 All-Star Game, which will be hosted in South Florida. One player from each squad has been chosen to compete in this year's festivities, which have traditionally featured a skills competition and games between divisions. During the next 12 days, the NHL also revealed that three new players (two skaters and a goalie) would be voted by a fan vote.

The agreement was for seven years, with a salary and cap that were not immediately available, but it was reported that it was a $49 million contract with a $7 million annual cap. Calgary moved center Sean Monahan to the Montreal Canadiens, which frees up $6.375 million in cap space in order to facilitate the transaction.