{"id":358296,"date":"2025-12-19T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:43:12","slug":"sabres-conor-timmins-breaks-leg-expected-to-miss-6-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358296\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres’ Conor Timmins breaks leg, expected to miss 6-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 18, 2025, 11:30 PM ET<\/p>\n

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres<\/a> defenseman Conor Timmins<\/a> is expected to sit out between six to eight weeks after breaking his left leg in the third period of a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> on Thursday night, Buffalo head coach Lindy Ruff said.<\/p>\n

Timmins was hurt with 5:20 left in regulation in what appeared to be a noncontact injury while several players battled for a puck along the boards in the neutral zone. A replay appeared to show Timmins’ left skate caught a rut, leading his left leg to bend awkwardly.<\/p>\n

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The injury is expected to sideline Timmins through the NHL’s Olympic break in February.<\/p>\n

Timmins, 27, has seven seasons of NHL experience and is in his first year in Buffalo after signing a two-year contract in free agency last summer. He has six assists in 32 games.<\/p>\n

Ruff did not have an immediate update center Tyson Kozak<\/a>, who left the game with an upper-body injury in the second period.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 18, 2025, 11:30 PM ET BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres defenseman Conor Timmins is expected to sit out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-358296","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\/358296","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=358296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}