Toronto Maple Leafs winger William Nylander will miss Friday\u2019s game in Washington due to an illness, coach Craig Berube announced during his pre-game media session.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt happened, I guess, last night,\u201d Berube said. \u201cI was sleeping, but he woke up and [sick] all day today, so he\u2019s not available to play.\u201d <\/p>\n
Dakota Joshua, who was a healthy scratch on Wednesday, draws back into the lineup for the Leafs. Defenceman Morgan Rielly will return to the top power-play unit after the Leafs deployed a five-forward alignment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
When Nylander missed practice on Thursday for maintenance, Max Domi took the first reps in his spot on the second line beside John Tavares and Easton Cowan.<\/p>\n
The Leafs are hoping Nylander, the team\u2019s leading scorer, will be available for Saturday\u2019s game in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants to play, there\u2019s no doubt about it,\u201d Berube said. \u201cIf it can get through him here quick enough, we\u2019ll see how he is tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Joseph Woll gets the start against the Capitals.<\/p>\n
Anthony Stolarz (upper body) is not on the road with the team.<\/p>\n
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Defenceman Brandon Carlo returned to practice on Thursday. The hope is he will also take part in the next practice on Monday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we\u2019re getting close,\u201d Berube said.<\/p>\n
Carlo has been sidelined since Nov. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs winger William Nylander will miss Friday\u2019s game in Washington due to an illness, coach Craig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85,113126,143738],"class_list":["post-315072","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","tag-william-nylander-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477939"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315072","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=315072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}