{"id":287791,"date":"2025-11-16T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:06:07","slug":"injury-bug-strikes-across-nhl-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287791\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury bug strikes across NHL on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a busy night in the NHL, injuries took their toll across the league.<\/p>\n<p>A number of players left their games with various ailments on the 13-game Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a roundup of some of the injuries that came down during the night&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks captain Nick Foligno left his team&#8217;s win over the Toronto Maple Leafs after blocking a shot with his hand late in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>He did not return, and Blackhawks head coach Jeff Blashill told reporters that the 38-year-old forward will miss four weeks with the hand injury.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Seattle, Kraken netminder Matt Murray was pulled with 18 seconds remaining in the first period. He was ruled out by the team with a lower-body injury after appearing to tweak something as he slid over to make a save with Seattle on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n<p>Philipp Grubauer took over in net for the Kraken and stopped all 19 shots he faced in a 4-1 win over the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie McAvoy and Viktor Arvidsson both exited the Boston Bruins&#8217; win over the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/bruins-charlie-mcavoy-exits-vs-canadiens-after-taking-shot-to-face\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McAvoy was hit in the face by a slapshot<\/a>, and Arvidsson suffered a lower-body injury and will miss &#8220;some time,&#8221; according to Bruins head coach Marco Sturm. McAvoy was ultimately able to travel back to Boston with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Arvidsson registered the game-winning goal for Boston on a power play in the second period. <\/p>\n<p>Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff told reporters, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t look good&#8221; for Kesselring, who played just one shift in the final 10 minutes of the second period and didn&#8217;t return for the third period or overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Calgary Flames lost 21-year-old forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/flames-honzek-exits-vs-jets-with-upper-body-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Honzek to an upper-body injury<\/a>. Honzek went down after a collision with teammate Mikael Backlund and immediately went to the locker room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a busy night in the NHL, injuries took their toll across the league. A number of players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-287791","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\/287791","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=287791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}