{"id":357976,"date":"2025-12-19T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:09:10","slug":"sabres-conor-timmins-breaks-left-leg-against-flyers-expected-to-miss-6-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357976\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres&#8217; Conor Timmins breaks left leg against Flyers, expected to miss 6-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/buffalo-sabres\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"buffalo-sabres\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> coach Lindy Ruff said defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/conor-timmins\/24a3f958-3b39-4ea8-b390-0e6c9e72bf91\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"24a3f958-3b39-4ea8-b390-0e6c9e72bf91\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Conor Timmins<\/a> is expected to miss between six to eight weeks after breaking his left leg in the third period\u00a0of a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Timmins was hurt with 5:20 left in regulation in what appeared to be a non-contact injury while several players battled for a puck along the boards in the neutral zone. A replay showed Timmins&#8217; left skate may have caught a rut in leading to his left leg bending awkwardly.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has seven season of NHL experience and in his first year in Buffalo after signing a two-year contract in free agency last summer. Timmins has six assists in 32 games, with the injury expected to sideline him through the NHL&#8217;s Olympic break in February.<\/p>\n<p>Ruff did not have an immediate update centre Tyler Kozak, who left the game with upper body injury in the second period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said defenceman Conor Timmins is expected to miss between six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-357976","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\/357976","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=357976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}