The Florida Panthers may be without one of their stars for a while.
On Monday night during a tense matchup with the Tampa Bay Lightning, All-Star winger Matthew Tkachuk was injured and needed to be helped off the ice.
The play came with 3:09 left in the first period and the Lightning up 3–0. As Tkachuk came across the ice and reached for the puck, Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov veered into him and slammed him with a knee-on-knee hit. It was a dangerous play that could be considered dirty…