{"id":206782,"date":"2025-10-12T02:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:07:07","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-f-steven-lorentz-departs-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206782\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs F Steven Lorentz departs with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/steven-lorentz\/8478904\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/steven-lorentz\/8478904\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Lorentz<\/a> was forced out of their game on Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> with an upper-body injury and has been ruled out of the game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maple Leafs F Steven Lorentz will not return to tonight\u2019s game (upper body).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1977176897084850586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lorentz, 29, skated three shifts with just 1:17 of ice time before appearing to suffer the injury late in the first period. He was not on the bench at the start of the second frame, and the team announced he would not return to the action not long after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The sixth-year centre registered two assists in the Maple Leafs\u2019 season opener against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> on Wednesday. This is his second season in Toronto &#8211; the Kitchener, Ont., native scored eight goals and totaled 19 points in 80 games last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs are Lorentz\u2019s fourth NHL team over his six-year career. After being selected in the seventh round (186th overall) by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, Lorentz debuted with the team in the 2020-21 campaign. He has also made stops with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 311 career NHL games, Lorentz has 29 goals and 64 points.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs forward Steven Lorentz was forced out of their game on Saturday against the Detroit Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85,113126],"class_list":["post-206782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206782","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=206782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}