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Panthers place Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve with injury to left leg · Best of: Features

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  Panthers place Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve with injury to left
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  leg Written by Tim Reynolds. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice generated by Everlett. Florida Center Alexander Barkov
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  has been placed on long term injured reserve by the Panthers, meaning
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  the injury to his left leg will keep him sidelined for at
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  least the next ten games and quite possibly beyond. The Panthers have
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  not revealed any details of Bark of his injury, which indicates that
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  the evaluation process is still ongoing. Barkov was hurt midway through the
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  second period of Florida's four three overtime loss to the San Jose
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  Sharks on Thursday night. He was jostling for the puck along the
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  boards, got pushed by the sharks darnell nurse, and awkwardly fell to
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  the ice with his left leg at an unnatural angle. It appeared
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  his knee buckled on the play. Barkov remained down for a few
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  moments, the got up and headed toward the tunnel leading to the
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  Florida dressing room. He walked with a bit of a limp, and
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  appeared to angrily try to throw off this gloves as he moved
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  toward the room. Barkov, Florida's captain and a huge part of the
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  Panthers runs to Stanley Cup Championships in twenty twenty four and twenty
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  twenty five, missed the entire twenty twenty five to twenty six season
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  with torn ligaments in his right knee. He went scoreless in his
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  first two appearance of this season for Florida, which plays Sunday at
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  Anaheim. See the AP's full NHL coverage here.