With just five seconds remaining in Game 4 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Final, Matthew Tkachuk scored a brilliant power-play goal to give the Panthers a 4-3 win — and complete a sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes to advance to the Stanley Cup Final. It was Tkachuk’s second goal of the night, fourth goal of […]

For the relay portion of the 2023 NHL All-Star skills competition, the Panthers tried a beach theme. Matthew Tkachuk and his brother, Ottawa Senators All-Star Brady, dressed as beach bums while Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov showed up in this lifeguard hoodie. Ultimately, Tkachuk ended up “scoring” on Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Roberto Luongo, who […]

Imagine you were Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Adin Hill. Do you think you could have stopped Matthew Tkachuk’s game-tying goal late in the third period of Game 3 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final? We don’t either. “We are that type of team where we know what the end goal [is] for us,” Tkachuk said. […]

With an extra attacker on the ice, Matthew Tkachuk scored the tying goal with less than three minutes remaining in the third period in Game 3 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final. The goal was the latest act of heroism from Tkachuk, who had scored four game-winning goals in the first three rounds of the […]

Sam Reinhart got ready for a face-off in Game 3 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Final. In the second period, the Panthers cashed in just eight seconds into a power play when Reinhart took a pass from Matthew Tkachuk and scored the only goal of the game. His tally gave the Cats a 1-0 victory […]

The Panthers gave hockey fans a run they’ll never forget during the 2022-2023 season. Aleksander Barkov broke franchise records and South Florida hosted the NHL All-Star Game in a star-studded affair. Then, as the last team to qualify for the playoffs, the Panthers made the most of their opportunity. Matthew Tkachuk scored crazy goals, Sergei Bobrovsky […]

The Panthers gave South Florida hockey fans a run they’ll never forget when they battled through the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs and progressed to the Stanley Cup Final, their second appearance in franchise history. Matthew Tkachuk scored crazy goals, Sergei Bobrovsky stood on his head and the Cats had clutch play after clutch play as the last team to […]

Matthew Tkachuk celebrated after Carter Verhaeghe’s overtime game-winning goal secured Game 3 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final. It was the first Stanley Cup Final win in franchise history! “All that was on our minds was to get the win,” Tkachuk said. “It didn’t matter how we were going to be able to do it. […]

Patience is an underappreciated virtue in a goal scorer, especially when nearly 20,000 fans are yelling “SHOOT!” When Matthew Tkachuk scored his game-winning goal with under five seconds in regulation in Game 4 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Final, he waited an extra second and allowed traffic to clear in front of the net while […]

The 2022-2023 Panthers team yearbook featured captain Sasha Barkov. Then in his 10th NHL season, Barkov and the Panthers were no longer the up-and-coming team. Their 2021-22 Presidents’ Trophy showed the Cats had arrived. Barkov’s Panthers were bolstered for the new season by the addition of superstar scorer Matthew Tkachuk, the return of alternate captain […]