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\n FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Matthew Tkachuk\u2019s basic offensive numbers for the Florida Panthers are all down this season. Goals, down. Assists, down. Points, down. Shooting percentage, down.On paper, that doesn\u2019t look great. On ice, Florida sees things very differently.\u201cYou just have to look at some different numbers,\u201d Panthers coach Paul Maurice said.The one in particular that Maurice points to: 92 standings points for Florida last season, 110 standings points for Florida this season. Both seasons ended up in the same place \u2014 the Stanley Cup Final \u2014 but there is no question that this Panthers team was better over 82 regular-season games than last season\u2019s club was.And in a room filled with leaders, Tkachuk most definitely stands out. He helped the Panthers be considerably better from start to finish, and at both ends of the ice, which is why Maurice is raving about his year \u2014 not obsessing over less scoring as Game 1 looms Saturday night against Edmonton.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a leader in there, so the culture and the shape of our team, he has a major impact on that,\u201d Maurice said. \u201cThe biggest growth, by far … is the discipline in his game. He\u2019s just not in the penalty box anymore. I would say straight through November into January last year, he was. He was the Tasmanian devil out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Including the playoffs, Tkachuk finished his first Florida season with 133 points and 197 penalty minutes and was the second player in NHL history to have that many points and PIMs in the same season; Kevin Stevens had 151 points and 282 penalty minutes for Pittsburgh in 1991-92.<\/p>\n
This year, Tkachuk\u2019s numbers so far: 107 points, 107 PIMs. No other player in the league has 100 of both, so he still stands alone on that front but he\u2019s clearly been more disciplined or at least more choosy about when it\u2019s time to visit the box. Case in point: when he and Boston\u2019s David Pastrnak decided to fight in Game 2 of that series, a rare display of big-time stars throwing punches at one another.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo guys wanted to go at it and I think our guy kind of came out on top of that one,\u201d Maurice said. \u201cSo, I thought it was good and I didn\u2019t think about it again.\u201dThere is a clear evolution to Tkachuk, on and off the ice. He\u2019s only 26 but is wrapping up his eighth year in the NHL. He got engaged a couple months ago. He\u2019s in the title series for the second straight year; Florida got rolled by Vegas last year in part because several key players, Tkachuk included, were dealing with serious injuries.He played some of that series through a fractured sternum, an issue that was so painful teammates had to help him put his pads on, get his jersey over his head and tie his skates. Tkachuk couldn\u2019t play in Game 5, when Vegas clinched the series in a rout.\u201cObviously, getting hurt in Game 3 was not the way to draw it up,\u201d Tkachuk said. \u201cFelt like, maybe if I\u2019m healthier, it could have maybe changed it a little bit, that series. But at the end of the day, I couldn\u2019t control anything of what happened. I just had to go into the summer with that kind of hanging over my head a little bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI basically had to work … as hard as I can to get back healthy, to get back to feeling good and ultimately work as hard as I can to give myself another crack at it,\u201d Tkachuk said. \u201cAnd here we are, having another chance at it.\u201dThat chance starts on Saturday, on home ice against the Oilers.And that adds another layer of intrigue to all things surrounding Tkachuk in this series \u2014 since he spent his first six NHL years in Calgary, a rival of Edmonton. They are not fans of his in Edmonton, to put it mildly. It is a mutual feeling. A respect exists between the sides, at least from Tkachuk\u2019s perspective. But a warm ovation does not await him in Games 3 and 4 when this series shifts to Alberta.\u201cObviously, this is way bigger than that,\u201d Tkachuk said. \u201cBut I\u2019m very comfortable playing in these games against them. It\u2019s been a big rivalry ever since I was 18 years old. I know the passion and I just know that rink, I know that city, been there, played a lot of games there. I should feel very comfortable going back. They\u2019re not big fans of me. I\u2019ll try to take advantage of that.\u201d___AP NHL playoffs: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/stanley-cup and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n
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