{"id":531317,"date":"2026-03-30T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/531317\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:00:41","slug":"panthers-rule-out-aleksander-barkov-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/531317\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers rule out Aleksander Barkov for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/florida-panthers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"florida-panthers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Panthers<\/a> captain was ruled out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season by head coach Paul Maurice on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Barkov has been practising with the team for weeks, leading to some speculation he could return during the final stretch. Maurice shut down that speculation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think so. Not in this situation,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/florida-panthers-shut-down-aleksander-sasha-barkov-ltir-cap-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, per Florida Hockey Now. &#8220;If (his timeline) is six-to-eight (months) and we put him in at seven and something happens, that doesn\u2019t make much sense. We\u2019ll let him go straight through the entire rehab process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barkov has yet to play this season after tearing his ACL and MCL on the first day of training camp in September.<\/p>\n<p>Although he may have been able to return in time for the playoffs, the two-time reigning champion Panthers sit 15 points out with just nine games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Barkov has won the Selke Trophy in each of the last two seasons as the NHL&#8217;s best defensive forward, plus captained the Panthers to titles in each of those two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers captain was ruled out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season by head coach Paul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-531317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-floridapanthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116319199206634093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}