{"id":436522,"date":"2023-05-23T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436522"},"modified":"2023-05-23T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:55:29","slug":"panthers-maurice-hopeful-barkov-could-play-in-game-4","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-maurice-hopeful-barkov-could-play-in-game-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Maurice &#8216;hopeful&#8217; Barkov could play in Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/florida-panthers\/\">Florida Panthers<\/a> manager Paul Maurice is assured Aleksander Barkov could be on the ice earlier than expected and help his teammates in the quest to win the Stanley Cup for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in their history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paul Maurice says Aleksander Barkov was out for the bulk of Game 3 for precautionary reasons. &#8220;We&#8217;re very optimistic that he&#8217;ll return soon,&#8221; Maurice said &#8212; and yes, that could mean Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByTimReynolds\/status\/1661062372897833000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The head coach shared that the captain&#8217;s problems are not anything too threatening, and he is very confident that he will see him play soon.<\/p>\n<p>After that, today, the manager added that Aleksander is very close to being healthy and playing on Wednesday in Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>Barkov left the ice in a Game 3 victory against Carolina in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> period with lower-body problems after Jack Drury struck him hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Panthers manager Paul Maurice is assured Aleksander Barkov could be on the ice earlier than expected and help his teammates in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436523,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19452,16872,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[19559,18134,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Florida head coach optimistic for his player return.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436522"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436522"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}