{"id":543894,"date":"2026-04-06T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:14:25","slug":"no-stanley-cup-three-peat-for-banged-up-florida-panthers-country-99-1-wqik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543894\/","title":{"rendered":"No Stanley Cup Three-peat for Banged Up Florida Panthers | Country 99.1 WQIK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The injury-plagued Florida Panthers have officially been eliminated from Stanley Cup Playoff contention after losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, the two-time reigning Stanley Cup champions will not defend their titles.<\/p>\n<p>The loss ends a six-year postseason streak that included back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2024-25. <\/p>\n<p>The real season killer was the injury of Florida captain\u00a0Aleksander Barkov who went down with a serious knee injury in training camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Aside from Barkov, Florida is without a slew of players including Sam Reinhart, Brad Marchand, Evan Rodrigues, Anton Lundell, Aaron Ekblad, Niko Mikkola, and Dmitry Kulikov due to various issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Cats also were without star left winger\u00a0Matthew Tkachuk until mid-January after he underwent surgery to treat a sports hernia and a torn adductor.<\/p>\n<p>By then, the Panthers had slipped to seventh in the Atlantic Division and were four points out of the playoff picture.<\/p>\n<p>Florida continues to play spoiler against the Canadiens on the road tomorrow night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury-plagued Florida Panthers have officially been eliminated from Stanley Cup Playoff contention after losing to the Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[1370,62,57,5141,5,4,63,7939,182,62004],"class_list":{"0":"post-543894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-championships","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-panthers","11":"tag-floridapanthers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-playoff-contention","16":"tag-playoffs","17":"tag-postseason-streak"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116358418635148932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543894","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=543894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}