{"id":202592,"date":"2025-10-10T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202592\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:19:08","slug":"sabres-josh-norris-leaves-game-against-rangers-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202592\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres\u2019 Josh Norris leaves game against Rangers with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\"><a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/buffalo-sabres\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres <\/a>forward Josh Norris left the team\u2019s game on Thursday night against the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-york-rangers\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers <\/a>with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Norris took a faceoff in the third period and appeared to be in some serious discomfort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Sabres coach Lindy Ruff didn\u2019t seem optimistic about the centerman\u2019s injury <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rachelmlenzi\/status\/1976469179944534450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">after the game,<\/a> saying, \u201c\u201cHe didn\u2019t finish the game\u2026 so I\u2019m gonna say that\u2019s not a good sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Norris has dealt with quite a few injuries in his NHL career. After being dealt to the Sabres at the NHL trade deadline last year, Norris dealt with a soft tissue injury that prevented him from finishing the season. He dealt with multiple shoulder surgeries during his time with the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>, as well as a handful of other ailments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The 26-year-old has played just four games with the Sabres since getting acquired back on March 6, 2025 \u2013 leaving two of them. Norris hasn\u2019t played more than 60 games since the 2021-22 season, which was his second full season in the NHL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">When healthy, Norris has proven to be a valuable performer. He had two points in three games with the Sabres last year, and another 20 goals and 33 points in 53 games with Ottawa. Drafted 19th overall in 2017, the former University of Michigan standout has 91 goals and 158 points in 240 games over seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The Sabres entered Thursday\u2019s bout missing Owen Power, Zach Benson, Michael Kesselring, Jordan Greenway and goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Ruff told the media on Thursday that Benson was admitted to the hospital after taking a puck to the face on Wednesday. The hope is he\u2019ll be discharged on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">This Jets\/Stars game is crazy will look to avenge their 4-0 shutout loss to the Rangers when they take on the Boston Bruins on Saturday. They\u2019ll head back home on Monday for a three-game home stand, welcoming Colorado, Ottawa, and Florida to the KeyBank Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres forward Josh Norris left the team\u2019s game on Thursday night against the New York Rangers with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-202592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}