The dinner-related injuries keep on piling up in the National Hockey League. Just days after Jack Hughes cut his hand at a team event — which required surgery and will cost him eight weeks or more — Florida Panthers forward Eetu Luostarinen suffered an unfortunate mishap of his own.
Luostarinen is week-to-week after sustaining burns during a barbecue accident , head coach Paul Maurice told reporters on Wednesday. It's a disappointing update for many reasons, one being that the Panthers have already been riddled with injuries early on in the 2025-26 season.
The Finn now joins Sasha Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk, Dmitry Kulikov, Jonah Gadjovich and Tomas Nosek on the shelf. It's just a brutal stretch of luck for a Florida team that is 10-8-1 and currently on the outside looking in at the E

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