{"id":574595,"date":"2023-01-25T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=574595"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:04:05","slug":"carter-verhaeghe-your-favorite-player-s-favorite-wingman-hits-a-new-career-high-in-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/carter-verhaeghe-your-favorite-player-s-favorite-wingman-hits-a-new-career-high-in-goals","title":{"rendered":"Carter Verhaeghe, your favorite player&#8217;s favorite wingman, hits a new career high in goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From almost the day he arrived in Broward County until a few weeks ago, Carter Verhaeghe was Aleksander Barkov&#8217;s go-to wingman. Joel Quenneville took a chance back in 2020 when he decided to pair his star center with Verhaeghe, who had just one season of NHL experience as a bottom-line forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning, and it worked right away. He scored 18 goals in his first season as a Florida Panther, then 24 last year and now, only 50 games into his third season as a Panther, he already has 25 &#8212; a new career high and tied with Matthew Tkachuk for the most on the team. He did it for more than two years with Barkov and now he&#8217;s doing it with Tkachuk, on the second line on the opposite wing as the All-Star forward. In Verhaeghe&#8217;s three seasons with Florida, the Panthers have found a truism: Stick Verhaeghe with a star and he&#8217;s going to produce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers forward Carter Verhaeghe has thrived as the primary goal-scoring option on lines with both Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nhl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}