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Matthew Tkachuk Shares Injury Details After Winning 2025 Stanley Cup
Matthew Tkachuk Shares Injury Details After Winning 2025 Stanley Cup
The Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions for the second year in a row, and Matthew Tkachuk certainly has his fair share of battle wounds to share after the fact.
Tkachuk, 27, spent the second half of the season on LTIR after being injured in the 4 Nations tournament. It turns out, Tkachuk was ready to throw in the towel and genuinely didn’t think he would return this season. Which makes sense after the fact, now that it’s been revealed he dealt with an insane injury.
“I tore my adductor off the bone and had some hernia thing, all on the same side,” Tkachuk, who was hurt playing at the 4 Nations Face-Off in February, told TNT’s Darren Pang. “Wanted to throw in the towel a bunch of times. I gotta thank a lot of people for getting me healthy enough. I’m sure I wasn’t the easiest to deal with. … I really didn’t think I would be playing, or at least playing to my capabilities. The longer the playoffs went, the better I felt.”
“This one’s more rewarding to me, just with everything personally I had to overcome,” Tkachuk said. “I didn’t know if I was going to be playing. It just shows how unbelievable our group is, the depth, everything, to allow me to get my footing throughout the playoffs.
“I owe a lot of people a lot of thank yous. Doctors, medical team, our trainers, equipment guys, all the support staff that don’t get a lot of credit. I would not be here without them, and I owe them this one.”
Wayne Gretzky also shared on the TNT set that he spoke with Keith Tkachuk, and he said Matthew shouldn’t be playing at all right now.
This would never happen in the NBA. Credit where credit is due. Matthew Tkachuk deserves all the praise in the world. He didn’t die on his shield. He came out victorious, too.
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