{"id":239116,"date":"2025-10-25T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239116\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:13:10","slug":"maple-leafs-nylander-exits-late-vs-sabres-status-for-saturday-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239116\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Nylander exits late vs. Sabres, status for Saturday unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"c218392b-2251-497a-a7e7-9a76e8580f31\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/william-nylander\/c218392b-2251-497a-a7e7-9a76e8580f31\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">William Nylander<\/a> exited with 5:51 remaining in the third period and did not return for another shift.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was shown on the broadcast skating to the bench slowly after taking a hit to the mid-section in open ice from Sabres forward Jason Zucker.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Craig Berube stated after the loss that Nylander would undergo further evaluation and his status was up in the air for Saturday&#8217;s latter half of a home-and-home with the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander had scored a goal and recorded 17:39 minutes of total ice-time before taking his last shift, and was absent for the Maple Leafs&#8217; two power plays late in the period.<\/p>\n<p>He has recorded three goals and 11 assists with a plus-4 rating in eight contests so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs fell to 3-4-1 with their third straight loss and now sit fifth in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Nylander exited with 5:51 remaining in the third period and did not return for another shift. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-239116","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\/239116","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=239116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}