With the playoffs on the horizon later this month, the Florida Panthers appear to finally be back on track.Florida (45-29-4, 94 points) will host the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night in Sunrise.The Panthers, who won their first Stanley Cup title last year, already have clinched a playoff berth for 2025. But they had lost five straight games (0-4-1) before ending that skid on Tuesday with a 3-1 victory over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs.That was career win No. 914 for Panthers coach Paul Maurice, who tied Barry Trotz for third place in NHL history. Scotty Bowman leads with 1,244, followed by Joel Quenneville with 969.Maurice can move past Trotz with a win on Thursday.Besides getting that victory, the Panthers are hoping to get healthy very soon.Center Aleksander Barkov — one of the top two-way forwards in the NHL — returned to action on Tuesday. He had missed three straight games due to an upper-body injury.Unfortunately for the Panthers, forward Sam Bennett won’t face Detroit, and he’s likely to miss the rest of the regular season due to an upper-body injury.”I just don’t think he’s going back in,” Maurice said. “We’re going to give him the rest of the regular season off.”Bennett has produced a career-high 50 points in 74 games this season. His 25 goals are the second-most of his 11-year career.Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk, who ranks third on the team in goals (22) and points (57), has been out since getting hurt in the 4 Nations Face-Off in February. He will miss the rest of the regular season due to a groin injury.The Panthers are hoping to get him back for the first round of the playoffs.Fourth-line center Nico Sturm and defenseman Dmitry Kulikov both have upper-body injuries. Sturm could return on Thursday. Kulikov is expected back before the regular season ends.”It’s nice when you can get that many bodies back,” said Panthers center Sam Reinhart, who leads the team in goals (37) and points (78).